Messi och Lloyd tippas vinna Fifas priser

The FIFA Ballon d'Or (French pronunciation: ​[balɔ̃ dɔʁ], "Golden Ball") is an annual association football award given by FIFA to the male player considered to have performed the best in the previous calendar year. It is awarded based on the votes from national team coaches and captains, as well as journalists from around the world. The award started in 2010 after France Football's Ballon d'Or and the men's FIFA World Player of the Year award were merged. The winner of the inaugural 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or was Lionel Messi who then went on to reclaim the title the following two years. After the merger, the FIFA World Player of the Year award became a women-only award. The award has been dominated by Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as part of their ongoing rivalry. As of 2014, Ronaldo is the most recent recipient of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, after beating Messi and Manuel Neuer to the 2014 award.

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi, född 24 juni 1987 i Rosario, är en argentinsk fotbollsspelare. Han spelar för det spanska fotbollslaget FC Barcelona och i Argentinas landslag. Messi har även spanskt medborgarskap. Han innehar flera målrekord inom spansk och internationell fotboll och rankas ofta som världens främste fotbollsspelare. Fyra år i rad – 2009, 2010, 2011 och 2012 – har han mottagit fotbollspriset Ballon d'Or.

Carli Anne Lloyd (born July 16, 1982) is an American professional soccer midfielder who currently plays for the Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States women's national soccer team. She is a FIFA Women's World Cup winner and two-time Olympic gold medalist. Lloyd scored the gold medal-winning goals in the finals of the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She has represented the United States at three FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments: the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, in which she helped the U.S. win bronze; the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, in which the U.S. won silver; and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, where Lloyd scored a hat trick in the final in captaining the U.S. to its third title. During the United States' 5–2 win over Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Lloyd became the first person ever to score three goals in a FIFA Women's World Cup final, and the second soccer player in history to score a hat trick in any senior FIFA World Cup Final, after Sir Geoff Hurst. Lloyd scored three goals in the first 16 minutes of the final, with the first two occurring in the first five minutes of the game and within three minutes of each other. She received the Golden Ball Trophy as the best player of the tournament and earned the Silver Boot for her six goals and one assist during the tournament. Lloyd has played in over 200 matches for the U.S. national team and scored over 70 goals. She previously played for the Chicago Red Stars, Sky Blue FC, and Atlanta Beat in Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). In 2013, she was allocated to the Western New York Flash for the inaugural season of the NWSL and helped her team win the regular season championship. After two seasons with the Flash, she was traded to the Houston Dash prior to the 2015 season.