Legends match sets stage for The Best

© Getty Images An amazing collection of footballing icons were in Zurich on 9 January to participate in festivities surrounding this evening’s The Best FIFA Football Awards™, including a FIFA Legends match on Monday morning. Split into four teams, the Legends – featuring the likes of Diego Maradona, Carles Puyol, Carli Lloyd, and many others – joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino and members of the FIFA Council, who are meeting on the 9th and 10th at the Home of FIFA, for a small-sided round-robin tournament.
There was friendly banter and surprising skills all around, with El Pibe keeping team-mates and competitors alike on their toes. The 1986 FIFA World Cup™ winner mock-scolded Italian goalkeeper Francesco Toldo after allowing a long-range goal from Michel Salgado, and after the match he warned Frenchman David Trezeguet, himself a World Cup winner in 1998, not to expect such mercy next time.
While admitting he liked either Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to win the award for T..

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Streaks and switches centre stage

© Getty Images One former European champion losing a long streak and two others extending their invincibility feature in FIFA.com’s latest stats review, along with an indefatigable Englishman, an expensive Brazilian and a conquering Colombian.
23 years after Carlos Valderrama became the last Colombia-based player to win the South American Football of the Year award, Miguel Borja became the next. The 23-year-old forward scored 19 times in 21 games for Cortulua, breaking Jackson Martinez’s record for goals in a single campaign, before joining Atletico Nacional, whom he inspired to Copa Libertadores glory and converted the penalty that seized them bronze at the FIFA Club World Cup. Borja finished 2016 with 39 goals in 51 appearances and pipped Brazilian Gabriel Jesus to the award by just nine votes – the shortest margin since Juan Sebastian Veron edged Juan Roman Riquelme by three in 2008. Teofilo Gutierrez became the second Colombian to win the award two years ago, but he was with Rive..

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Stage set for a San Siro shock

© Getty Images With the 1990 FIFA World Cup just minutes from kicking off, this Cameroon supporter looks to be a lone figure. He would certainly have arrived at Milan’s gleaming, newly renovated San Siro in hope rather than expectation, knowing that his team – comprised largely of little-known journeymen – were about to face the world champions, and the great Diego Maradona.
Even Cameroon’s own players seemed to accept the outcome as a foregone conclusion, with striker Francois Omam-Biyick – one of several then plying his trade in France’s lower divisions – striking a downbeat pre-match tone. “The gap between the two teams is too big to breach,” he said. “I don’t believe in miracles.”
Goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell had been gloomier still, and was dropped after claiming in a newspaper interview that his team had “no chance of coping with Argentina, or any other team” and would “go out in the first round without much glory”.
Nothing, of course, could have been further from the truth. I..

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