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Lionel Messi won his third consecutive FIFA Ballon d'Or award after beating Cristiano Ronaldo and Xavi. So far he has won every title and some of them twice but the world cup still a tough one despite the possibilities of playing two more world cups. Individually he performed well, but also get a push fantastic top player like Inesta and second run-up Xavi. Club achievement played a major role and made it easy for him to beat Cristiano Ronaldo. Spanish Liga title, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. Messi has become the second player after Michel Platini to have won the Ballon D'Or awards in three consecutive years.

Barcelona star Lionel Messi won his third consecutive FIFA Ballon-d'Or award and singer Shakira

FiFPro XI only come from three European teams, Barcelona - 5, Real Madrid 4, and Man Utd – 2 and six of them from Spain national team.
Other awards
FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year -- Homare Sawa (Japan National team)
FIFA Men’s Football Coach of the Year -- Pep Guardiola (Barcelona)
FIFA Women’s Football Coach of the Year -- Norio Sasaki (Japan women’s national team)
FIFA Presidential Award -- Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United)
FIFA Fair Play Award -- Japan FA
FIFA Puskás Award for the best goal– Neymar (Santos)

The FIFA 2014 World Cup has been scheduled to feature 32 national teams from FIFA six continental confederations. Only the host, The 5 times world cup champions, Brazil will be allowed to participate in world cup finals without competing in qualification draw.. Spain, World cup and European Champions will join other 30 national teams in competing for their place in World cup finals.
The preliminary draw of the 2014 FIFA World Cup draw was made on 30 July 2011 at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 32 world cup place distribution
1. Europe (UEFA): 13 places
2. Africa (CAF): 5 places
3. Asia (AFC): 4 or 5 places
4. South America (CONMEBOL) 4 or 5 places (Brazil host)
5. North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF): 3 or 4 places
6. Oceania (OFC): 0 or 1 place

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification for European zone-UEFA
The road to 2014 world cup for European zone teams will kick off on August 2012 after the Euro 2012. 53 national teams will compete for 13 allocated places for this zone. 9 group winners will automatically enter the world cup finals and eight best runners-up will face play-off for the remaining 4 places.

France recent poor performance pushed them to 15 in FIFA World Rankings world wide and have been drawn with World cup champions, Spain. In the last world cup play-off, France won a controversial play-off win over Ireland to qualify for the 2010 World cup inals in South Africa. France coach Laurent Blanc speaking to French FA's website, he said "At least we won't receive the tag of favourites with the world champions and European champions in our group. It's extremely exciting to compete with the best. It's through such matches that we can improve.''
''It'd be a lie to say that we're in an easy group. But we will focus on our task and France will take its chances as usual.
''Spain will definitely be our toughest opponent in the group. But I have confidence in our team and the goal will be to advance in first place.''

New FIFA Cocacola ranking countries soccer rankings have been released for Jul 2011. Previous FIFA ranking was released on Jun 29th 2011. The top three is unchanged still dominated by Spain, Nertheland and Germany, despite both three lossing more than 100 points. The two world cup finalist still lead the ranking. One change in top ten contries, as Uruguay move to top 10, Mexico drop to 20th position from 9th. Uruguay having drop 185 point in previous ranking they have gain 247 points and move to 5th from 18th position after winning the 15th Copa America cup, this being their best ever position. 88 matches taken into account most from Copa America, which saw most of Copa America participant move places above. The next FIFA cocacola ranking will be on 24th Aug 2011.

FIFA COCACOLA WORLD RANKING JUL 2011
No	Country	Points	Position change		Points difference
1	Spain	1588	0		-283
2	Netherlands	1542	0		-119
3	Germany	1305	0		-112
4	Brazil	1202	1		72
5	Uruguay	1156	13		247
6	England	1146	-2		0
7	Portugal	1076	0		30
8	Italy	1059	-2		0
9	Croatia	1033	-1		0
10	Argentina	1013	0		34

FIFA RANKING FOR UEFA - EUROPE NATIONAL TEAMS
Among top ten countries in FIFA cocacola ranking world wide, Seven teams are from UEFA countries, three team that add the list of top ten UEFA countries according to FIFA ranking are Norway, Greece and France and there have been very little movement in UEFA TOP 10.

FIFA COCACOLA RANKING FOR UEFA COUNTRIES JUL 2011
UEFA Ranking	World Ranking	Country	Points	Position change		Points difference
1	1	Spain	1588	0		-283
2	2	Netherlands	1542	0		-119
3	3	Germany	1305	0		-112
6	4	England	1146	-2		0
7	5	Portugal	1076	0		30
8	6	Italy	1059	-2		0
9	7	Croatia	1033	-1		0
12	8	Norway	972	-1		0
13	9	Greece	959	-1		0
15	10	France	920	0		0

FIFA COCACOLA RANKING FOR CAF-AFRICA NATIONAL TEAMS
Côte d'Ivoire leads the CAF - Africa countries, but 14th in FIFA world ranking. Top ten FIFA cocacola - CAF countries ranking is unchanged.

FIFA COCACOLA RANKING FOR CAF-AFRICA COUNTRIES
CAF ranking	World ranking	Country	Points	Position change		Points difference
14	1	Côte d'Ivoire	922	0		0
34	2	Egypt	735	0		8
36	3	Ghana	696	-3		-39
39	4	Burkina Faso	661	-2		0
43	5	Nigeria	635	-2		0
46	6	Senegal	619	-3		0
49	7	South Africa	597	-2		0
50	8	Cameroon	595	-2		0
52	9	Algeria	575	-1		0
55	10	Tunisia	553	2		26