2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or

2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or

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Dates	2010

The 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or was the inaugural year for FIFA's awards for the top football players and coaches of the year. The award merged FIFA's former World Player of the Year awards with the Ballon d'Or, previously presented by the French media to the top men's player in Europe. The awards ceremony took place on 10 January 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland. The three finalists for each category were announced on 6 December 2010.

La Masia, the FC Barcelona academy, achieved a record breaking honor in becoming the first youth academy ever to have all three finalists for the Ballon d'Or in one same year, with Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi.

Marta won the women's Ballon d'Or; she had won the previous four World Player of the Year awards.

José Mourinho, Portuguese manager of Real Madrid and previously of Internazionale, was the first winner of the men's FIFA Ballon d'Or Best Coach Award in 2010. The women's version of the award was won by Germany head coach Silvia Neid.

Winners

Men

Lionel Messi, winner in 2010.

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Notes
1st	Lionel Messi	Argentina	Barcelona	22,65 %
2nd	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	Barcelona	17,36 %
3rd	Xavi Hernández	Spain	Barcelona	16,48 %

• 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or - Men - Full results

Women

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Notes
1st	Marta	Brazil	FC Gold Pride
2nd	Birgit Prinz	Germany	Frankfurt
3rd	Fatmire Bajramaj	Germany	Turbine Potsdam

Men's Coach

José Mourinho, winner in 2010.

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Team	Notes
1st	José Mourinho	Portugal	Internazionale
2nd	Vicente Del Bosque	Spain	Spain
3rd	Josep Guardiola	Spain	Barcelona

Women's Coach

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Team	Notes
1st	Silvia Neid	Germany	Germany
2nd	Maren Meinert	Germany	Germany U-20
3rd	Pia Sundhage	Sweden	United States

FIFA Puskás Award

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Notes
1st	Hamit Altıntop	Turkey	Bayern Munich
2nd	Linus Hallenius	Sweden	Hammarby IF
3rd	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	Netherlands	Netherlands

FIFA/FIFPro World XI

Casillas Maicon Piqué Lúcio Puyol Iniesta Sneijder Xavi Messi Villa Ronaldo

Position	Player	National Team	Club
GK	Iker Casillas	Spain	Real Madrid
DF	Maicon	Brazil	Internazionale
DF	Carles Puyol	Spain	Barcelona
DF	Gerard Piqué	Spain	Barcelona
DF	Lúcio	Brazil	Internazionale
MF	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands	Internazionale
MF	Xavi Hernández	Spain	Barcelona
MF	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	Barcelona
FW	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Real Madrid
FW	David Villa	Spain	Valencia, Barcelona
FW	Lionel Messi	Argentina	Barcelona

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page