Awarded UEFA Player of the Season for the 2018-19 campaign, Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk is primed to win FIFA's The Best award on Monday.
Liverpool's Virgil Van Dijk is the firm favourite to scoop this year's FIFA The Best award at the gala ceremony tomorrow night (Monday September 23) in Milan.
Since FIFA's creation of the new award in 2016, each winner of The Best has gone on to win the prestigious France Football Ballon d'Or award too with that ceremony set to take place in the French capital on December 2nd.
Portugal international Cristiano Ronaldo scooped the inaugural award in 2016 and also bagged the FIFA award the following year with Real Madrid's Luka Modric the current holder of the acclaim.
Champions League win
The Dutch defender was at the heart of Liverpool's Champions League triumph in Madrid and has established himself as one of the best defenders in the world following his move to Anfield from Southampton in 2018.
Despite not claiming the Premier League trophy last season, the player was instrumental in seeing The Reds push eventual winners Manchester City all the way.
Van Dijk was also a ley component in Netherlands reaching the Final Four of the inaugural UEFA Nations League competition where the 'Oranje' fell short losing to hosts Portugal in Porto.
iamildaz
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When Valverde finally resign and decides to be a referee....😂😂
raynknight
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Its Not Fifa's Fault .....its just that Our Bad period is Going on , Each and everything is Troubling us ......Even our Board isn't with us and neither Our Players...... We r going through such bad period if We fight relegation then don't be Surprised........ Its our destiny Thank u Bartemou and Thank u Valverde .....U have showed us our places
SD533
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World class defender, best Epl defender. He deserves all the credit he is showered with.
Amanda-
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I don’t think so , because this’s FIFA and not Europe
himbcrstz
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I wish he wins since this is the same thing that happened last year when ronaldo should have won it modric won it becoz fifa didn't want to see Ronaldo wins it for the sixth time
Harry_99
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VVD was phenomenal last season n deserves to be awarded, but Messi was exceptional too n deserves at least one award, giving all 3 player of season award to only 1 player should be a rare case when only that player has a wonderful season Last season same case with ronaldo n they gave all 3 award to modric