FIFA vote-rigging storm: Captains and coaches claim they DID NOT vote for Lionel Messi for The Best award - and now FIFA reveal Egypt's vote for Salah was rejected because it was written in CAPITAL LETTERS

FIFA's prestigious The Best awards have been struck by a vote rigging storm amid claims indicating the ballot was rigged — with the governing body suggesting Egypt's votes were left out after the signatures were written in capital letters.
Lionel Messi walked away with the best men's player accolade at the glitzy ceremony in Milan on Monday, pipping Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil van Dijk to the award.

Given Van Dijk's remarkable season at Liverpool, where he led the club to their sixth Champions League title, and Ronaldo's excellent campaign at Juventus - Messi's winning award was met with a degree of surprise.

There was also a belief that Mohamed Salah would be a strong contender for the prize.

And now the Barcelona superstar's claim to the honour has been thrown into serious doubt following questions over the legitimacy of the voting.

The Egyptian football association, Sudan's coach Zdravko Logarusic and Nicaragua's captain Juan Barrera have raised concerns over the authenticity of the ballots - citing uncounted or misallocated votes.

Egypt's association called on FIFA to explain why the votes of its national coach Shawki Ghareeb and captain Ahmed were not taken into account. Ghareeb and El-Mohammadi are not mentioned in FIFA's publication of official votes.

FIFA have now indicated that they were not included because signatures on Egypt's ballots 'were in capital letters and thus seemed not valid (not authentic).'

They added that 'voting forms were also not signed by the (federation) general secretary which is mandatory.'

Nicaragua’s captain Juan Barrera has raised concerns over the authenticity of the ballots
Nicaragua’s captain Juan Barrera has raised concerns over the authenticity of the ballots
Sudan’s coach Zdravko Logarusic took to social media to say his vote was not reflected by FIFA
Sudan’s coach Zdravko Logarusic took to social media to say his vote was not reflected by FIFA
The Egyptian Football Federation claim they officially sent Egypt's vote to FIFA on August 15, four days before the deadline.

Their statement had earlier asked 'FIFA why the Egyptian vote was not accepted' and goes on to confirm the EFA have opened an 'investigation' into the circumstances of this failure.

The Egyptian federation was in turmoil in July and August after its leadership resigned due to the national team's Round of 16 exit at the African Cup of Nations it hosted.

Later in August, FIFA sent an emergency management team to run the Egypt federation.

Additionally, Sudan's coach Lugarisic and Nicaragua's Juan Barrera took to social media to indicate that the votes published by FIFA, in their names, did not reflect their actual choices.

Lugarisic says his first choice was Egypt's Salah but FIFA's voting document showed Messi as his first selection.

Lugarisic says his first choice was Mohamed Salah but FIFA's records said he voted for Messi
Lugarisic says his first choice was Mohamed Salah but FIFA's records said he voted for Messi
Barrera is also adamant that he did not vote for Messi, as claimed by FIFA.


'I did not vote for Messi. I was surprised to be on the list of captains who voted for Messi and there is no explanation how it appeared there,' Barrera is reported to have said.

FIFA determines the best players based on the votes of national team coaches, captains as well as a journalist from each country.


The votes are then made public for transparency. However, the voting system has been called into serious doubt following the alleged discrepancies.


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NORSYK:

Ronaldo's excellent campaign at Juventus

This particular statement shows whoever wrote this article is a Ronaldo fan, and is biased

1 claim by Nicaragua captain - Nicaragua case, fifa provided evidence of the captain voting, it was stamped and signed, sent by Nicaragua FA, the captain should goan face his FA.

1 claim by sudan coach that they voted for salah (Not van dyke or Ronaldo) ~ Sudan coach has denied saying that, and confirmed the whole screenshot wasn't from him

1 claim voted for salah - fifa gave reasons

Lets wait and see if other people will come out to deny the votes, because all votes were published

I want to ask a question. Which player performance the best last season?

Lets all be truthful in all we do regardless of fan base


for now those 3 votes are immaterial.

Corruption even in FIFA! They would need the service of Buhari to head FIFA after finishing his second term as president in Nigeria.

Fifa is a very corrupt organisation. I'm sure Gianni Infantino has joined APC

I thought as much

FIFA = Fraudulent International Federation Awards.

Fifa and Fraud are like 5 & 6

How will they give someone that's a local champion because of his goals. What about the defenders(Van Dijk) that stopped him and others from scoring or Gk Alisson that won 3 different golden gloves coupled with international(copa America ) and Ucl.

I bet if they look into 2010 awards they'll find something. The most undeserved award.

Today it's by goals, tomorrow is by trophy, next tomorrow na by world cup.
Fifa and lies confused mofos.

Messi bought the award

Penaldo and his fans have been dying ever since messi won the award, they went to Photoshop some image claiming those coaches did not vote messi which the people has denied.

The Sudan coach has denied ever saying that.

penaldo fans think FIFA is stupid to allow such scandal? The voting is in public and whoever don't like it can continue wailing

The op should stop being MISCHIEVOUS. There was a voting process which had to be followed. If you failed to align yourself with the voting rules, then your votes got invalidated. That was the case with the Egyptian FA. In similar vein, Nicaraguan captain claimed he DID NOT vote at all but FIFA received a valid vote in his name submitted by the Nicaraguan FA. As far as FIFA was concerned, that would count as a vote, and its up to the Nicaraguan FA to conduct internal investigation to find out who submitted on their captain behalf. It is critical to be aware that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Switzerland monitored the voting process and note that those claims would NOT have changed the voting result anyway.

Accept Lionel Messi as a credible GOAT because he is genuinely and indisputably one.

I knew something was wrong! Fifalona
All those messi asslickers should go cover their heads in shame, useless set of humans.
Fifalona better cancel the whole thing and give the award to the rightful owner

The GoAT is coming down


Which kind setup be this?

Abeg make them allow the GOAT retire in peace

TBH, Messi got better Stats last season. I think he deserved it. If FIFA going to rig, it won't be changing people's vote. They can lobby sha

, I knew this was going to happen.

Whoever came up with this article is young, dumb and broke

Am an ardent fan of Liverpool
But i must confess Messi deserve this award
He is a legend

FIFA determines the best players based on the votes of national team coaches, captains as well as a journalist from each country



See ehnnnn


i thought Ronaldo was far behind Lionel Messi











Untill i watched Lionel Messi's third goal against real betis
And i realize i was hundred percent correct!

You need to see that goal!

Story for the gods

Gbege in paradise

Messi is world best notwithstanding

It's about to go down...FIFA doing what they do best. Why not just forget Messi or Ronaldo and give the award to Virgil, make person rest. Those two magicians have already done their part by WINNING IT ALL.

Nawao...after writing motivational note on social media...the guy no wan still rest

I no call person name o

VVD was actually robbed because they were just against Ronaldo.

No coach ever can vote messi. There's no other player in the world that can be scoring against Spain in the world cup canceling all their 3 goals. That alone is incredible and out of this world. Let me not even talk about Liverpool UCL blunder. Of course everyone knows u can't have Ronaldo in a team that needs just a goal to advance and he won't do it. I can bet 1m.

ZinoFasisi:


This particular statement shows whoever wrote this article is a Ronaldo fan, and is biased

1 claim by Nicaragua captain - Nicaragua case, fifa provided evidence of the captain voting, it was stamped and signed, sent by Nicaragua FA, the captain should goan face his FA.

1 claim by sudan coach that they voted for salah (Not van dyke or Ronaldo) ~ i don't know if fifa has responded

1 claim voted for salah - fifa gave reasons

Lets wait and see if other people will come out to deny the votes, because all votes were published

Even Liverpool coach that voted messi hasn't denied.

I want to ask a question. Which player performance the best last season?

Lets all be truthful in all we do regardless of fan base


for now those 3 votes are immaterial.

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Ronaldos excellent campaign at Juventus? He was out scored by a 36 year old
English media did their best to overhyped Van Dijk but we all know he won't win it

What is wrong with people?

NORSYK:
FIFA vote-rigging storm: Captains and coaches claim they DID NOT vote for Lionel Messi for The Best award - and now FIFA reveal Egypt's vote for Salah was rejected because it was written in CAPITAL LETTERS

FIFA's prestigious The Best awards have been struck by a vote rigging storm amid claims indicating the ballot was rigged — with the governing body suggesting Egypt's votes were left out after the signatures were written in capital letters.
Lionel Messi walked away with the best men's player accolade at the glitzy ceremony in Milan on Monday, pipping Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil van Dijk to the award.

Given Van Dijk's remarkable season at Liverpool, where he led the club to their sixth Champions League title, and Ronaldo's excellent campaign at Juventus - Messi's winning award was met with a degree of surprise.

There was also a belief that Mohamed Salah would be a strong contender for the prize.

And now the Barcelona superstar's claim to the honour has been thrown into serious doubt following questions over the legitimacy of the voting.

The Egyptian football association, Sudan's coach Zdravko Logarusic and Nicaragua's captain Juan Barrera have raised concerns over the authenticity of the ballots - citing uncounted or misallocated votes.

Egypt's association called on FIFA to explain why the votes of its national coach Shawki Ghareeb and captain Ahmed were not taken into account. Ghareeb and El-Mohammadi are not mentioned in FIFA's publication of official votes.

FIFA have now indicated that they were not included because signatures on Egypt's ballots 'were in capital letters and thus seemed not valid (not authentic).'

They added that 'voting forms were also not signed by the (federation) general secretary which is mandatory.'

Nicaragua’s captain Juan Barrera has raised concerns over the authenticity of the ballots
Nicaragua’s captain Juan Barrera has raised concerns over the authenticity of the ballots
Sudan’s coach Zdravko Logarusic took to social media to say his vote was not reflected by FIFA
Sudan’s coach Zdravko Logarusic took to social media to say his vote was not reflected by FIFA
The Egyptian Football Federation claim they officially sent Egypt's vote to FIFA on August 15, four days before the deadline.

Their statement had earlier asked 'FIFA why the Egyptian vote was not accepted' and goes on to confirm the EFA have opened an 'investigation' into the circumstances of this failure.

The Egyptian federation was in turmoil in July and August after its leadership resigned due to the national team's Round of 16 exit at the African Cup of Nations it hosted.

Later in August, FIFA sent an emergency management team to run the Egypt federation.

Additionally, Sudan's coach Lugarisic and Nicaragua's Juan Barrera took to social media to indicate that the votes published by FIFA, in their names, did not reflect their actual choices.

Lugarisic says his first choice was Egypt's Salah but FIFA's voting document showed Messi as his first selection.

Lugarisic says his first choice was Mohamed Salah but FIFA's records said he voted for Messi
Lugarisic says his first choice was Mohamed Salah but FIFA's records said he voted for Messi
Barrera is also adamant that he did not vote for Messi, as claimed by FIFA.


'I did not vote for Messi. I was surprised to be on the list of captains who voted for Messi and there is no explanation how it appeared there,' Barrera is reported to have said.

FIFA determines the best players based on the votes of national team coaches, captains as well as a journalist from each country.


The votes are then made public for transparency. However, the voting system has been called into serious doubt following the alleged discrepancies.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7507143/FIFA-Best-awards-hit-vote-rigging-storm-nations-claim-selections-not-counted.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR14Ft7_QWevbOm2zSOHHaIpz2QtgQMGxwRFR39Qg9M63Hq7haB4p3b_t6o

FIFA don dey do 'yahoo yahoo'

It's obvious you are Messi fan... No need to argue with you.

ZinoFasisi:


This particular statement shows whoever wrote this article is a Ronaldo fan, and is biased

1 claim by Nicaragua captain - Nicaragua case, fifa provided evidence of the captain voting, it was stamped and signed, sent by Nicaragua FA, the captain should goan face his FA.

1 claim by sudan coach that they voted for salah (Not van dyke or Ronaldo) ~ i don't know if fifa has responded

1 claim voted for salah - fifa gave reasons

Lets wait and see if other people will come out to deny the votes, because all votes were published

Even Liverpool coach that voted messi hasn't denied.

I want to ask a question. Which player performance the best last season?

Lets all be truthful in all we do regardless of fan base


for now those 3 votes are immaterial.

When last did Messi win it? All the while, no foul claim. He won! Noise started! I hate bitter losers!

From the beginning of last season till 1st leg against Liverpool at UEFA Champions League campaign, Messi outshone all players in the world. Ronaldo reduced his chances by switching to another club before he could find his rhyme, time don go!

Ronaldo starling performances were towards the tail end of the season while around that time Messi was wobbling owing to many factors best known to him but one attributable to his team downspiriting performance at Anfield.

But overall, Messi had the best season performance and He is the best player in the world. No doubt!

When we bin dey talk dem bin call us haters.....may we jus dey watch!!!

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MedicH:
No coach ever can vote messi. There's no other player in the world that can be scoring against Spain in the world cup canceling all their 3 goals. That alone is incredible and out of this world. Let me not even talk about Liverpool UCL blunder. If course everyone knows u can't have Ronaldo in a team that needs just a goal to advance and he won't do it. I can bet 1m.

thanks but you made no sense

E do win be say e don win