FIFA recently announced the three-man shortlist for The Best award for the 2017/18 season and many were surprised to see that not one member of France's World Cup-winning squad made the list.
Antoine Griezmann has expressed his surprise too at the list which featured Luka Modric, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah.
"As I've said in a previous interview, it's a shame that there is no world champion up for The Best given that it is an award given out by FIFA," he said while on France duty.
"I don't know what their criteria are.
"It's a shame, but we can't do anything more.
"We have won the most important thing already, which is the World Cup.
"That's the best prize you can win.
"So we'll be happy even though none of us are up for The Best."
The winner of The Best will be announced at a ceremony on September 24.
MazharAgha
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i think fifa announce club best player ....
hundred
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It’s called you aren’t the best player in the world. He’s not even top5 for me. Just in terms of players who play a similar position/role to him (attacking non-9s), Messi. Ronaldo. Neymar. Hazard. Are all CLEARLY better and you could make arguments for like 5-10 more players. And that’s just guys who play a similar position let alone all footballers
Akashgaur
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Well..Disappointing..Obviously.. but the thing is that France didn't won the World Cup because of one or two star players..The whole team combined together to win..France as a whole were brilliant especially in the knockout stages..Tell u honestly you can't pick a Frenchman for an individual prize coz they all contributed equally in the team's success both in attack as well as defence.
BASSEYKINGSLEY
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There is nothing to be shamed about because the sky is a large space where dominants of kinds of birds and creature are found. The young ones must grow and we should be happy New things are happening. Looking at what happened during the last world cup, there are surprises that dazed the whole world.
Lionaire
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Most overrated player speaks. If Griezmann plays for a team like portugal or Croatia or Egypt then he will realize why this three players are up there for their individual talent. Forget that even if its compulsory to nominate a world champion for top 3, he dnt even deserve to be there. He is not even in my Top 20...overrated!
cause he beats real madrids ass every single time..even without having the best of players in his team..and also..portugal is a great team..egpyt is shit..and they showed they were shit..as well as salah..nothing did he do except tap ins..all the season..salah is overrated not griezmann...i prefer u watch griezmann play..they u will realise