Fifa's best player: Harry Kane, Eden Hazard, Mohamed Salah & Cristiano Ronaldo head shortlist
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England's Harry Kane features on a 10-man shortlist for the Best Fifa Men's Player award for 2018.
Chelsea's Eden Hazard, Mohamed Salah of Liverpool, Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne and new Juventus signing Cristiano Ronaldo are also included.
England full-back Lucy Bronze is on the shortlist for the best women's player.
Tottenham forward Kane, 24, won the Golden Boot at the World Cup in Russia with six goals as England achieved their best finish since 1990.
He went into the World Cup on the back of registering his first 30-goal haul in a Premier League season.
And Kane maintained that form at the finals, becoming the first English player to win the top scorers' prize since Gary Lineker in 1986.
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Hazard, 27, won the FA Cup with Chelsea in May and then collected the Silver Ball in Russia after inspiring Belgium to third - their best World Cup finish.
Salah, 26, also enjoyed a prolific campaign. The Egyptian scored 46 times for club and country during 2017-18, helping Liverpool to the Champions League final in his first season at Anfield.
Belgium midfielder De Bruyne, 27, played a prominent role in a record-breaking season for City, who accumulated the most points and wins in a Premier League season.
It was also a landmark year for five-time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese scored 54 goals in 54 games in all competitions, spearheading Real Madrid's triumph in the Champions League and the Fifa Club World Cup.
Voting for the award closes at midnight on 10 August, while the awards ceremony takes place in London on 24 September.
Full shortlist
- Cristiano Ronaldo - Juventus & Portugal
- Kevin De Bruyne - Manchester City & Belgium
- Antoine Griezmann - Atletico Madrid & France
- Eden Hazard - Chelsea & Belgium
- Harry Kane - Tottenham & England
- Kylian Mbappe - Paris St-Germain & France
- Lionel Messi - Barcelona & Argentina
- Luka Modric - Real Madrid & Croatia
- Mohamed Salah - Liverpool & Egypt
- Raphael Varane - Real Madrid & France
Bronze's reward for fine season
Bronze's inclusion on the women's best player shortlist caps a fine 12-month period for the right-back.
The 26-year-old won a French league and Champions league double during her first season at Lyon after leaving Manchester City for France last August.
She is one six Lyon players nominated alongside Ada Hegerberg, Saki Kumagai, Dzsenifer Marozsan and French duo Amandine Henry and Wendie Renard.
Full shortlist
- Lucy Bronze - Lyon & England
- Pernille Harder - Wolfsburg & Denmark
- Ada Hegerberg - Lyon & Norway
- Amandine Henry - Lyon & France
- Samantha Kerr - Perth Glory/Chicago Red Stars & Australia
- Saki Kumagai - Lyon & Japan
- Dzsenifer Marozsan - Lyon & Germany
- Marta - Orlando Pride & Brazil
- Megan Rapinoe - Seattle Reign & USA
- Wendie Renard - Lyon & France
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Not a Spurs fan, but Kane has been consistently knocking in the goals in the Premier league so arguably should get consideration, granted he is never going to win.
Got to be Modric or Salah for me, but you know Fifa can't overlook their favourites so will still likely be Messi or Ronaldo
You're entitled to your opinion, but would be interested to hear your reason for putting these two in front of Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo scored more goals than Salah for his club and performed at the wc too. Modric had a better wc mostly because his team stayed in but would be difficult to say he was more important to Real than Ronaldo.
It's not just about the World Cup is it you dullard? Despite the fact he did score more than anyone there his stats for the whole season including international were 52 goals in 59 games. He's a beast asnd he's on there because the WORLD football fraternity agree he should be.
He'll still be smiling with his World cup and FA cup though
Kane only gets in because he scored 52 goals in 2018, clearly an average Joe...
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I do find it stupid that a calendar year award is voted on in July.
Too often I feel that votes are strongly swayed by the world cup
Varane has won CL and WC this year and was absolutely superb.
Modric CL winner and superb again in the WC.
Jealous rival fans think they know more than those deciding the list! Hahaha
Talking of overrated and overpaid: Where is Ozil? Hahaha. Mid-table Europa league non-entity!!!
At the WC, Hazard was the best, closely followed by de Bruyne, and Belgium were the most gifted team.
Salah should be in the running, too. If we really have to have a Frenchman, then Kante.
How you been me old mucker?
Finally found a thread you could wedge your anti-England hate speech into again. You must of been crawling the walls. If anything though, the time away has made you even more sad and desperate. Anyway, good catching up.