2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or

Third year for FIFA's awards April 2024 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or Suisse vs Argentine - Granit Xhaka & Lionel Messi crop.jpg 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or Winner, Lionel Messi 2013 01 07 y Zürich, Switzerland Switzerland FIFA ballondor.com Won by ARG Lionel Messi (4th Ballon d'Or) 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or 2013 The 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or (2012 FIFA Golden Ball), was the third year for FIFA's awards for the top football players and coaches of the year. The awards were given out in Zürich on 7 January 2013,https://www.fifa.com/ballondor/galaformat/index.html FIFA Ballon d’Or: Key Points FIFA 19 November 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121010121419/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/galaformat/index.html 10 October 2012 with Lionel Messi winning a record fourth consecutive Ballon d'Or. The gala ceremony was hosted by former Ballon d'Or winner Ruud Gullit and broadcast journalist Kay Murray of Real Madrid TV and Fox Soccer.https://www.fifa.com/ballondor/photo/156/545/0/picture.html#1565450 https://web.archive.org/web/20120117075639/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/photo/156/545/0/picture.html#1565450 dead 17 January 2012 Show hosts Ruud Gullit and Kay Murray 8 January 2013 FIFA.com 8 January 2013 Winners and nominees FIFA Ballon d'Or right vertical 165 FC Barcelona - Bayer 04 Leverkusen, 7 mar 2012 (48) (cropped).jpg thumb Lionel Messi 165 Cristiano Ronaldo 4609.jpg thumb Cristiano Ronaldo 165 Andrés Iniesta Euro 2012 vs France 02.jpg thumb Andrés Iniesta A shortlist of 23 male players was compiled by members of FIFA's Football Committee as well as a group of experts from France Football.http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/fifa-announces-shortlist-for-ballon-dor-572229.html FIFA announces shortlist for Ballon D'Or 29 October 2012 Irish Examiner 19 November 2012 3 December 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013748/http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/fifa-announces-shortlist-for-ballon-dor-572229.html live It was announced on 29 October 2012.https://www.fifa.com/ballondor/playeroftheyear/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111022033859/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/playeroftheyear/index.html dead 22 October 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or 2012 Shortlist 19 November 2012 FIFA 19 November 2012http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1206251/lionel-messi%2C-cristiano-ronaldo-among-ballon-d%27or-nominees?cc=5739 Messi, Ronaldo lead Ballon d'Or nominees 29 October 2012 ESPN 19 November 2012 4 December 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131204183642/http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1206251/lionel-messi%2C-cristiano-ronaldo-among-ballon-d%27or-nominees?cc=5739 dead There were three voters per FIFA member federation, one journalist and the coaches and captain of the national men's team. Each picked a first (5 points), second (3 points) and third choice (1 point), with their choices made public by FIFA.https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/playeroftheyear%28men%29/01/98/07/84/fboawardmenplayer2012-bycountry.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130109202156/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/playeroftheyear(men)/01/98/07/84/fboawardmenplayer2012-bycountry.pdf dead 9 January 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or 2012 – Votes FIFA 7 January 2013 8 January 2013 This was cut to a set of three "finalists" – Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Cristiano Ronaldo – on 29 November 2012.https://www.fifa.com/ballondor/news/newsid=1959407/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121202040310/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/news/newsid=1959407/index.html dead 2 December 2012 Ronaldo, Iniesta and Messi are the three nominees for the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2012 29 November 2012 ESPN 29 November 2012https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/nov/29/ballon-dor-finalists-Sergio-aguero Ballon d'Or finalists: Andrés Iniesta, Cristiano Ronaldo and Pavanpreet Brar 29 November 2012 The Guardian 29 November 2012 The odds-onhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20910453 Ballon d'Or contenders Messi, Ronaldo and Iniesta in profile BBC 6 January 2013 7 January 2013 Chowdhury, Saj 7 January 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130107134704/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20910453 live favourite Lionel Messi won the award.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20937775 Korneel Messi wins Ballon d'Or ahead of Ronaldo & Iniesta BBC 7 January 2013 7 January 2013 13 January 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160113173909/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20937775 live Messi won all three FIFA Ballons d'Or since its inception in 2010 and also won both predecessor awards (the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year) in 2009. The results for the 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or were: Rank Player National team Club(s) Percent 1st Lionel Messi ARG ESP Barcelona 41.60% 2nd Cristiano Ronaldo POR ESP Real Madrid 23.68% 3rd Andrés Iniesta ESP ESP Barcelona 10.91% The following twenty players were also in contention for the award: Rank Playerhttps://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/general/01/98/08/52/fboawards-byrank.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130120060307/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/general/01/98/08/52/fboawards-byrank.pdf dead 20 January 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or 2012 – voting results FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association PDF 7 January 2013 7 January 2013 National team Club(s) Percent 4th Xavi ESP ESP Barcelona 4.08% 5th Radamel Falcao COL ESP Atlético Madrid 3.67% 6th Iker Casillas ESP ESP Real Madrid 3.18% 7th Andrea Pirlo ITA ITA Juventus 2.66% 8th Didier Drogba CIV ENG ChelseaCHN Shanghai Shenhua 2.60% 9th Robin van Persie NED ENG ArsenalENG Manchester United 1.45% 10th Zlatan Ibrahimović SWE ITA MilanFRA Paris Saint-Germain 1.24% 11th Xabi Alonso ESP ESP Real Madrid 1.09% 12th Yaya Touré CIV ENG Manchester City 0.76% 13th Neymar BRA BRA Santos 0.61% 14th Mesut Özil GER ESP Real Madrid 0.41% 15th Wayne Rooney ENG ENG Manchester United 0.39% 16th Gianluigi Buffon ITA ITA Juventus 0.35% 17th Sergio Agüero ARG ENG Manchester City 0.30% 18th Sergio Ramos ESP ESP Real Madrid 0.22% 19th Manuel Neuer GER GER Bayern Munich 0.21% 20th Sergio Busquets ESP ESP Barcelona 0.20% 21st Gerard PiquéPique Kembali Sindir Madrid? http://www.skordewa.com/pique-kembali-sindir-madrid/ 22 April 2017 24 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200724150402/http://www.skordewa.com/pique-kembali-sindir-madrid/ dead ESP ESP Barcelona 0.11% 22nd Karim Benzema FRA ESP Real Madrid 0.11% 23rd Mario Balotelli ITA ENG Manchester City 0.07% FIFA Women's World Player of the Year On 25 October 2012, a ten-player shortlist was unveiled for the FIFA's Women's Player of the Year, which was chosen by experts from FIFA's Committee for Women's Football and the FIFA Women's World Cup and a group of experts from France Football.https://www.fifa.com/ballondor/media/newsid=1797027/index.html Women’s shortlists for FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala 2012 revealed FIFA 19 November 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121029061122/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/media/newsid%3D1797027/index.html 29 October 2012 The voting system used was the same as that of the men's award (see above), with coaches and captains of women's national teams and persons from the media making public top-three selections.https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/playeroftheyear%28women%29/01/98/08/17/fboawardwomenplayer2012-bycountry.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130117234021/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/playeroftheyear(women)/01/98/08/17/fboawardwomenplayer2012-bycountry.pdf dead 17 January 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or 2012 – Women's player votes FIFA 7 January 2013 8 January 2013 Rank Playerhttps://www.fifa.com/ballondor/media/newsid=1981449/index.html Messi, Wambach, Del Bosque & Sundhage triumph 7 January 2013 FIFA.com 7 January 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130111082828/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/media/newsid%3D1981449/index.html 11 January 2013 National team Club(s) Percent 1st Abby Wambach USA w/o club 20.67% 2nd Marta BRA SWE Tyresö FF 13.50% 3rd Alex Morgan USA USA Seattle Sounders 10.87% Rank Player National team Club(s) Percent 4th Homare Sawa JPN JPN INAC Kobe Leonessa 10.85% 5th Christine Sinclair CAN USA Western New York Flash 10.33% 6th Carli Lloyd USA w/o club 7.99% 7th Camille Abily FRA FRA Lyon 7.70% 8th Aya Miyama JPN JPN Yunogo Belle 7.51% 9th Miho Fukumoto JPN JPN Yunogo Belle 7.32% 10th Megan Rapinoe USA USA Seattle Sounders 2.89% FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football This award was decided by the same voters and system as that of the men's player award.https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/coachoftheyear%28men%29/01/98/08/05/fboawardmencoach2012-bycountry.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130117234220/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/coachoftheyear(men)/01/98/08/05/fboawardmencoach2012-bycountry.pdf dead 17 January 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or - Men's coach FIFA 7 January 2013 8 January 2013 Rank Coach Nationality Team(s) Percent 1st Vicente del Bosque Spain ESP 34.51% 2nd José Mourinho Portugal ESP Real Madrid 20.49% 3rd Pep Guardiola Spain ESP Barcelona 12.91% Rank Coach Nationality Team(s) Percent 4th Roberto Di Matteo Italy ENG Chelsea 12.02% 5th Alex Ferguson Scotland ENG Manchester United 5.82% 6th Jürgen Klopp Germany GER Borussia Dortmund 4.78% 7th Cesare Prandelli Italy ITA 3.34% 8th Roberto Mancini Italy ENG Manchester City 3.10% 9th Joachim Löw Germany GER 1.15% 10th Jupp Heynckes Germany GER Bayern Munich 1.00% FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football This award was decided by the same voters and system as that of the women's player award.https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/coachoftheyear%28women%29/01/98/08/29/fboawardwomencoach2012-bycountry.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130117234247/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/ballond%27or/coachoftheyear(women)/01/98/08/29/fboawardwomencoach2012-bycountry.pdf dead 17 January 2013 FIFA BALLON D'OR - Women's coach FIFA 7 January 2013 8 January 2013 Rank Coach Nationality Team(s) Percent 1st Pia Sundhage Sweden USA 28.59% 2nd Norio Sasaki Japan JPN 23.83% 3rd Bruno Bini France FRA 9.02% Rank Coach Nationality Team(s) Percent 4th Patrice Lair France FRA Lyon 7.64% 5th Silvia Neid Germany GER 6.48% 6th John Herdman England CAN 6.31% 7th Hiroshi Yoshida Japan 17 JPN Japan U1720 JPN Japan U20 5.75% 8th Steve Swanson United States 20 USA United States U20 5.02% 9th Maren Meinert Germany 20 GER Germany U20 3.70% 10th Hope Powell England ENG GBR Great Britain Olympic 3.29% FIFA/FIFPro World XI right Jorge difp Casillas Alves Ramos Piqué Marcelo Xavi Alonso Iniesta Messi Falcao Ronaldo FIFA/FIFPro World XI 2012https://www.fifa.com/ballon-dor/news/y=2013/m=1/news=fifa-fifpro-world-2012-1979448.html https://web.archive.org/web/20141203223815/http://www.fifa.com/ballon-dor/news/y=2013/m=1/news=fifa-fifpro-world-2012-1979448.html dead 3 December 2014 FIFA/FIFPro World XI 2012 FIFA.com Fédération Internationale de Football Association Over 50,000 FIFPro professional players have voted and elected the following FIFA/FIFPro World XI for 2012: IKER CASILLAS, DANI ALVES, MARCELO, GERARD PIQUÉ, SERGIO RAMOS, ANDRÉS INIESTA, XABI ALONSO, XAVI HERNANDEZ, CRISTIANO RONALDO, RADAMEL FALCAO, LIONEL MESSI. 10 July 2016 Position Player National team Club(s) GK Iker Casillas ESP ESP Real Madrid DF Dani Alves BRA ESP Barcelona DF Sergio Ramos ESP ESP Real Madrid DF Gerard Piqué ESP ESP Barcelona DF Marcelo BRA ESP Real Madrid MF Xavi ESP ESP Barcelona MF Xabi Alonso ESP ESP Real Madrid MF Andrés Iniesta ESP ESP Barcelona FW Lionel Messi ARG ESP Barcelona FW Radamel Falcao COL ESP Atlético Madrid FW Cristiano Ronaldo POR ESP Real Madrid This was the first occasion that all eleven FIFPro World XI players were players from the same league (La Liga).https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/jan/08/fifa-team-year-spanish-giants Fifa's team of the year reflects the dominance of the Spanish giants The Guardian 8 January 2013 8 January 2013 Ronay, Barney 15 January 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140115033540/http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/jan/08/fifa-team-year-spanish-giants live FIFA Puskás Award The Puskás Award for best goal was decided by a public online vote.https://www.fifa.com/ballondor/puskasaward/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101029233418/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/puskasaward/index.html dead 29 October 2010 The FIFA Puskás Award FIFA 7 January 2013 8 January 2013 Rank Player Nationality Team Percent Notes 1st Miroslav Stoch Slovakia TUR Fenerbahçe 78% Volley into top corner of net, 3 March 2012, Turkish Süper Lig match against Gençlerbirliğihttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/9787402/Fenerbahces-Miroslav-Stoch-wins-Fifas-goal-of-the-year-after-superb-volley-against-Genclerbirligi.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130109113718/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/9787402/Fenerbahces-Miroslav-Stoch-wins-Fifas-goal-of-the-year-after-superb-volley-against-Genclerbirligi.html dead 9 January 2013 Fenerbahce's Miroslav Stoch wins Fifa's goal of the year after superb volley against Genclerbirligi Telegraph 2nd Radamel Falcao Colombia ESP Atlético Madrid 15% 3rd Neymar Brazil BRA Santos 7% FIFA Presidential Award GER Franz Beckenbauerhttps://www.fifa.com/ballondor/presidentialaward/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101031172806/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/presidentialaward/index.html dead 31 October 2010 Presidential award FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association 7 January 2013 7 January 2013 FIFA Fair Play Award UZB Uzbekistan Football Federationhttps://www.fifa.com/ballondor/fairplayaward/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101031172801/http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/fairplayaward/index.html dead 31 October 2010 Fair play award FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association 7 January 2013 7 January 2013 References 30em External links https://www.fifa.com/ballondor/index.html Category:2012 in association football Category:FIFA Ballon d'Or 2012 Category:2012 sports awards Category:2012–13 in Swiss football