From 2017, the year the main individual award in world football returns to the old channel.
The magazine “France Football and FIFA have agreed to extend their cooperation, which expires this autumn. Law on awarding of the Golden ball again transferred to the French edition, which has already announced about the new rules of awarding.
Previously, FIFA has named 50 players competing for the “Golden ball”. Now the expanded list will be limited to 30 names.
Changes to touch and the ceremony of “Golden ball “France Football” will not hold the awarding ceremony with the participation of three finalists. The winner of the award will be notified in advance about his victory.
The main change will concern the voting procedure. Now the initiative returns to journalists, captains and coaches of national teams and more to determine the winner of the “Golden ball” will not.
FIFA is not going to abandon its own awards – the international football Federation from 1991 to 2009 was defined by the Player of the year FIFA”. The governing body of world football is going to renew the award.
Recall the “Golden ball” according to “France Football” was given from 1956 to 2009. The last holder of the old version of the award is FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team Lionel Messi.
