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The Best Fifa Football Awards will take place on tonight in London.

These awards are different from the Ballon d’Or in that they cover performances across a year rather than following a traditional European football season.

There will be a number of awards on the night, including for the top men’s player which is between Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland. For the women’s candidates Aitana Bonmati, Linda Caicedo and Jennifer Hermoso are the women’s final three. While there is also the Puskas Awards for the best goal, including Julio Enciso, Guilherme Madruga and Nuno Santos.

Man City boss Pep Guardiola, England boss Sarina Wiegman and Chelsea’s Emma Hayes are all up for coaching honours too. Follow all the live action in the blog below.

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Time for the Puskas award, and there are some crackers in this…

Sonia Twigg15 January 2024 20:31

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Now we are hearing from moving tributes from those who knew the three legends of the game who were remembered in a moving video montage.

Sonia Twigg15 January 2024 20:30

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Time to pay our respects to three members of the footballing family who are no longer with us.

Sir Bobby Charlton, Franz Beckenbauer and Mario Zagallo.

Sonia Twigg15 January 2024 20:24

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And the winners are Brazil’s senior men’s players, that was a heartwarming moment in the middle of the ceremony, and all seemed to be worthy winners.

Cafu, Ronaldo, Julio Cesar and Cafu are among those in attendance to go onto the stage and receive the award.

Sonia Twigg15 January 2024 20:20

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Now moving on to the Fifa Fair Play Award, the winner has been chosen by former professional footballers.

The nominations are: Brazil’s senior men’s players for their all-black kit against Guinea following the racist abuse aimed against Vinicius Junior, Montevideo city under-16s who scored a goal without realising two players were down with head injuries but then allowed their opponents to equalise, Pol Van Boekel when not showing Mohammed Kudus a yellow card for removing his shirt to display a tribute to his former teammate Christian Atsu.

Sonia Twigg15 January 2024 20:19

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And the winner is…Ederson

Sonia Twigg15 January 2024 20:14

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And now on to the men’s goalkeeper award which is between Ederson, Thibaut Courtois and Yassine Bounou.

Sonia Twigg15 January 2024 20:13

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It has been an incredible year for Earps, from the shirt fiasco with Nike to winning Sports Personality of the Year and now this award at the Fifa Best of Football Awards.

Earps goes on a slightly different note with her speech, saying: “Thank you very much. To be honest last year I won the award but I didn’t get team of the year. I want to say thank you to my teammates I feel incredibly privileged to be able to be on a pitch with you and learn from you.

“Thank you to all my coaches at England and United, I’m just blown away. I think I talk about that it’s not been the easiest journey to get here, some would say I took the scenic route and I had to wait a long time for this kind of success but looking back now it makes sense what I went through.

“It made me so much more prepared for the challenges I face and to never take a single day for granted. It’s never to late to be exactly who you are.”

Sonia Twigg15 January 2024 20:12

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