Candidates Domination Barcelona FIFA Ballon d'Or winners

FIFA has announced 23 names players who were nominated to be winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2011. Barcelona dominated the list by placing eight players.
Proclaimed Soccernet, Lionel Messi, last year's winner remains a favorite to take this award and he will fight with his seven teammates that Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, David Villa, Daniel Alves, Eric Abidal and Gerard Pique.
Given the success in last season by winning La Liga and the Champions League to Barcelona deserve to have a lot of players who entered as a candidate for world's best players.
Real Madrid finished second largest team in the list by placing five players.They are Cristiano Ronaldo, Mesut Oezil, Iker Casillas, Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso.
Manchester United striker, Wayne Rooney, the only English player who made it into the nominations with three other Premier League players such as co-team, Nani, Luis Suarez and Sergio Aguero.
Italian and German leagues each have two representatives. Wesley Sneijder and Diego Forlan of the club Inter Milan Bayern Munich while the two retainer featuring Bastian Schweinsteiger and Thomas Mueller.
Santos striker, Neymar be the only candidate who play in leagues outside of Europe while the Cameroonian footballer, Samuel Eto'o who defended Anzhi Makhachkala is the only African player to be nominated.
Turning to the nomination of the best coaches, Jose Mourinho likely to defend his title again this year. But the coach who led Inter won the treble it will face fierce competition with Josep Guardiola, who favored steal this award.
On 5 December, FIFA and France Football magazine will announce the three candidates from each list by number of votes at most. While the announcement of winners will be performed in a gala in Zurich, Switzerland on January 9, 2012.

Candidate winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or 2011:
Éric Abidal (France), Sergio Agüero (Argentina), Karim Benzema (France), Iker Casillas (Spain), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Dani Alves (Brazil), Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), Cesc Fàbregas (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay), Andrés Iniesta (Spain), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Thomas Müller (Germany), Nani (Portugal), Neymar (Brazil), Mesut Özil (Jermany), Gerard Pique (Spain), Wayne Rooney (England ), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), Luis Suárez (Uruguay), David Villa (Spain), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Xavi (Spain).
Candidate Coach of the World:
Vicente Del Bosque (Spanish / Spanish national team), Alex Ferguson (Scotland / Manchester United FC), Rudi Garcia (France / Lille OSC), Pep Guardiola (Spain / FC Barcelona), Jürgen Klopp (Germany / Borussia Dortmund), Joachim Low ( Germany / German national team), José Mourinho (Portugal / Real Madrid CF), Oscar Tabarez (Uruguay / Uruguay national team), André Villas-Boas (Portugal / FC Porto, Chelsea FC), Arsène Wenger (France / Arsenal FC).