Mohamed Salah tops the list of nominees for the "The Best" award.. the only African player

The brilliant Egyptian star, Mohamed Salah, booked a place for him in the final list of candidates to win the “The Best” award for 2021, and the list next to him included a group of world stars such as Benzema, De Bruyne, Ronaldo, Halland, Jorginho, Kante, Lewandowski, Mbappe, Messi and Neymar, and the list was devoid of Algerian star Riyad Mahrez. And Senegalese Sadio Mane.

Today, Tuesday, FIFA revealed the nominees for the award given to the best player in the world, and the list included Mohamed Salah (Egypt), Karim Benzema (France), Kevin Den Bruen (Belgium), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) and Erling Halland (Norway). Jorginho (Italy) N'Golo Kante (France) Robert Lewandowski (Poland) Kylian Mbappe (France) Lionel Messi (Argentina) Neymar Da Silva (Brazil).

Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo was crowned the best player in the world from FIFA in the first two editions in its current form in 2016 and 2017.

Croatian Luka Modric won the award in 2018, before Argentine star Lionel Messi won the award in 2019.

Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski was crowned the best player in the world for 2020, beating Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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