We offer entertaining statistics on applicants for the title of the best players in the world.

Very soon, namely on the night from Friday to Saturday, the voting for the Best Footballer / Footballer / FIFA Coaches.

The official website of FIFA has prepared interesting statistics on all applicants for awards.

100 - all applicants for the title of the best player of the year scored in the World Cup in 2018 - 100%. Seven out of ten played in the semifinals of the World Cup, Messi and Ronaldo did not pass the stage of the 1/8 finals, and Salah did not leave the group.

60 - so many percent of players who claim to be the Best Footballer of the Year represent Lyon. This team scored 64 of the 66 possible points in the championship of France, and in the Kiev final of the Women's Champions League defeated Wolfsburg.

54 - so many goals for the period from July 3, 2017 to July 15, 2018 scored Cristiano Ronaldo - the highest figure among all nominees for the best player of the year. The Portuguese are home to Harry Kane (52), Lionel Messi (52), Mo Salah (50), Antoine Grizmann (37) and Kylian Mbappa (29).

30 - this is the number of years is the difference in age between the youngest and the most adult coach, claiming the title of the best among the women's teams. Mark Parsons from American Portland tomorrow will be 31, and Wadao from Brazil in a few days 62.

Among the male coaches the greatest difference is only 9 years and 10 months: Roberto Martinez - 45 years old, Stanislav Cherchesov - 54.

13 years and 10 and a half months - this is the difference in age between Kilian Mbagpe (19) and Cristiano Ronaldo (33). Mbappa was only seven years old, when Ronaldo was first included in the list of nominees for the title of best player of the year.

9 countries represented among 10 nominees for the title of the best football player of the year: Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Norway and the USA. France is the only country with several players: Amandine Henry and Wendy Renard.

5 out of 21 coaches who scored in the FIFA Awards category, scored over 100 goals during their playing career: Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (125), Zinedine Zidane (108), Diego Simeon (106), Sarina Wigman (104) and Didier Deschamps (103). Ten out of 21 did not play at the international level: Massimiliano Allegri, Zlatko Dalich, Emma Hayes, Jurgen Klopp, Stefan Lerch, Roberto Martinez, Marc Parsons, Alain Stajic, Wadao and Jorge Wilde.

3 - player in the category "FIFA Men's Player" left-handed: Antoine Grismann, Lionel Messi and Mo Salah. Among women, this one - Martha. About two out of ten people are left-handed.

2 - the countries have their representative in all four categories - England (Harry Kane, Lucy Bronz, Gareth Southgate, Emma Hayes and Mark Parsons) and France (Antoine Grismann, Kilian Mbappe, Rafael Varan, Amandine Henri, Wendy Renard, Didier Deschamps, Zinedine Zidane and Reynald Pedros).

1 - the defender was in the top ten of the best football players of the world - Rafael Varan. Among the women there are four Lucy Bronz, Amandine Henri, Saki Kumagai and Wendy Renard.