FIFA Best Player: All you need to know about Monday’s awards

The world’s best male and female footballers, will be named at the Best FIFA Football Awards in London on Monday.

This is the third year of the Best FIFA awards, after the world governing body’s six-year association with the Ballon d’Or came to an end.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric and Mohamed Salah are the finalists for the men’s player award for 2018.

Ada Hegerberg, Dzsenifer Marozsan and Marta are the nominees for the women’s player award.

The other awards are for the Best FIFA goalkeeper, men’s coach, women’s coach, fan award, fair play award and FIFpro World XI.

British actor Idris Elba and French journalist Anne-Laure Bonnet will host the show at the Royal Festival Hall, which starts at 6:30pm.

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