The next award recognises the supporters with Fifa's Best Fan. Former Brazil keeper Julio Cesar is here to award it. Guess what, he's a "Fifa legend".

"The fans are everything," he says. "They are the most important thing in football and everything we do is for them."

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel: "It was a pretty normal day so far at training. I have just come here. But now you have said my name and it is pretty surreal. I am overwhelmed and a bit uncomfortable.

"I enjoy the journey and the club. It is a good fit. The company on the journey is so good. We lost a bit of track to Manchester City in the league but we follow our goals still and be the best version of ourselves."

Arsene Wenger declared all three winners before announcing the winner. Big smiles from Pep Guardiola and Thomas Tuchel. Roberto Mancini could not have cared less.

A very good night for Chelsea.

Don't think there can be many complaints about that trio of managers. Pep won the Premier League with Man City, Tuchel claimed the Champions League for Chelsea and Mancini led Italy to Euro 2020 glory as part of a world-record unbeaten run.

Arsene in the house. Mr Wenger is here to push for a World Cup every two years. Only kidding, he's doing the men's coach award.

Claudio Ranieri (2016), Zinedine Zidane (2017), Didier Deschamps (2018) and Jurgen Klopp (2019 and 2020) are the previous winners of this award.

Let's look at the men in the frame to follow them...

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Chelsea boss Emma Hayes: "I am not usually stumped like this. It is all down to the players. A coach is only as good as who they have around them and I have brilliant people around me."

"Oh my goodness, I'm so shocked," says Hayes. Genuinely pleased for her. Humble and brilliant.

Solid trio, that.

Cortes guided Barcelona to a historic treble. They won the league, cup and – for the first time in the club’s history – the Women’s Champions League. His team scored 208 goals in 47 competitive matches. Stunning. He's no longer at Barcelona, though, having stepped down in June. He's now Ukraine national coach.

Hayes was similarly dominant in England, leading Chelsea to the WSL title and League Cup. It was only Cortes' Barca that prevented them adding the Champions League. She was also ace on the telly during Euro 2020.

Wiegman's nomination is her fifth, from which she has previously won twice. She led Netherlands to the last eight of the Olympic tournament and has been notching up rugby scores after taking over as England boss.

Silvia Neid (2016), Sarina Wiegman (2017 and 2020), Reynald Pedros (2018) and Jill Ellis (2019) are the previous winners.

Here is this year's shortlist...

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It's Best Fifa coaches time, starting with the women.

Christian Norkjaer, Denmark's team manager: "First of all I would say it is a big honour for me to receive this award on behalf of the players, staff and coaches. We would like to thank all people around the world for their support. We are a big family and we stood together with the nation. This is for all Denmark, who stood shoulder by shoulder."

Absolutely nobody can knock this decision.

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A gentleman through and through who always conducts himself impeccably, these qualities could now earn Claudio Ranieri the FIFA Fair Play Award. Before taking over as Watford manager in October 2021, the Italian was in charge at Sampdoria, where he gave Inter Milan the very special honour of a pasillo. Ahead of the match between Sampdoria and Inter, the visitors from Genoa paid tribute to the newly-crowned Serie A champions by forming a corridor of players as they stepped onto the pitch. This "guard of honour" is a long-standing tradition in English football but is also a common sight in Spain, where it is known as a pasillo de honor.

Ranieri received a hero’s welcome on his return to the King Power Stadium. On 28 November the Italian travelled with Watford to Leicester for a Premier League match, his first visit as an opposition coach since leaving the club in 2017. Ranieri won the Premier League with the Foxes in 2016, despite the odds on such a triumph being set at 5000:1 at the start of the season. While Ranieri was greeted with a standing ovation when he emerged from the tunnel before the game, he ultimately left empty-handed as his team lost 4-2.

Scottish midfielder Scott Brown offered emphatic proof that football is not just about success, tactics and on-pitch battles, but humanity, solidarity and respect too. Brown, who ended his tenure as Celtic captain at the end of last season, sought out Finland international Glen Kamara before the Old Firm derby against Rangers after the midfielder was racially abused earlier that week in the second leg of his side’s UEFA Europa league Round of 16 tie against Slavia Prague.

Brown once again demonstrated his sense of sportsmanship when his nomination was announced. "Let’s get it right: all I did was show my respect and support to an opponent who had been disgracefully abused just a few days earlier," he told the Daily Record. "I was sickened by the incident so shaking his hand was the least I could do.

"It was nothing more than a bit of human decency for someone who deserved to know we were all on his side. But the Danish lads were staring catastrophe in the face on that day in Copenhagen. What they did went way above an act of decency, it was truly heroic. Let’s just say, if I had a vote, I’d be giving it to all of them."

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This was an incident that was beamed around the world. When Christian Eriksen slumped to the ground during the UEFA EURO 2020 match between Denmark and Finland on 12 June 2021, time seemed to stand still for a few seconds. The Danish superstar lay motionless on the pitch after suffering a cardiac arrest. The players around him immediately noticed his dramatic fall and called for medical assistance. Several agonising minutes followed as medics battled to save Eriksen’s life.

The Denmark players, many of them in tears, shielded their team-mate to prevent anyone from watching while he was being resuscitated. Captain Simon Kjaer, who intervened instantly after realising the severity of the situation, and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel also comforted Eriksen’s partner during what must have been several of the worst minutes of her life.

After the match, Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand said: "It was a really tough evening, one on which we’ve all been reminded what the most important things in life are. It’s meaningful relationships. It’s those people who are close to us. It’s family and friends. I could not be more proud of this team, who take good care of each other."

Fifa’s oldest accolade is the Fair Play Award, which they have been handing out since 1987 to those who exemplify the best spirit of the game and, in Fifa's own words, "underlines the importance that football’s world governing body attaches to fairness and sportsmanship".

Here are this year's nominees with the reasoning that supplied on Fifa's own website...