2021 The Best ceremony - as it happened

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Cristiano Ronaldo gets an award for the men's top international scorer. 

Robert Lewandowski wins The Best! The Bayern Munich man gets the award and he is presented it in person!

The men's best player is about to be revealed!

Will it be Messi, Lewandowski or Salah? Salah is not present due to the AFCON. 

Alexia Putellas wins the women's best player!

Infantino reveals the winner and it goes to Alexia Putellas of Barcelona!

Sam Kerr is in India for the Asian World Cup qualifiers, but Jenni Hermoso and Alexia Putellas are there. Jenni can't here anything though.

The best women's player is about to be revealed!

Donnarumma (GK); Alaba, R Dias, Bonucci; Jorginho, Kante, KDB; C Ronaldo, Haaland, Lewandowski and Messi is the men's XI.

Lothar Matthaus is invited onto stage now for the men's World XI.

Endler (GK); Bronze, Renard, Bright, Eriksson; Banini, Lloyd, Bonansea; Miedema, Marta and Morgan is the women's XI.

The FIF Pro World XIs are being revealed!

Lotta Schelin and Fatma Samoura are on stage for this one.

Denmark and Finland fans are given the FIFA fan award! Both a Denmark and a Finland supporter are spoken via videolink. The Finnish supporter reads a prepared statement about what happened that night while the Danish fan talks about what he felt when Eriksen collapsed.

It's time for the FIFA fan award! 

Former Brazilian keeper Julio Cesar is invited onto the stage. Finland and Denmark fans' unity chanting Christian Eriksen after the player collapsed. Imogen Papworth-Heidel raising more than 20,000 pounds in keepy-uppies and German football fans helping the community after terrible floods in the country are the nominees. 

Thomas Tuchel wins the best men's coach! The Chelsea manager wins the award and he is at the training centre as Chelsea take on Brighton tomorrow.

It is now time for best men's coach!

Arsene Wenger is invited onto stage!

Emma Hayes wins the best women's coach! The Chelsea manager cannot believe it. She took her team to the final.

It is now time for the Best women's coach!

2019 winner Jill Ellis joins the ceremony via videolink.

Denmark's players and medical team get the Fair Play award! The leader of Denmark's medical team comes on video link and thanks everyone for their support.

Time now for the FIFA Fair Play award!

Fatma Samoura, FIFA's secretary general, comes onto the stage. Denmark's players and medical staff after Eriksen's collapse, Celtic's Scott Brown embracing Rangers' Glen Kamara after he was racially abused by Slavia Prague's Ondrej Kudela and Claudio Ranieri ordering his Sampdoria's side to provide Inter with a guard of honour after they won Serie A are the candidates. A guard of honour hadn't been done in Italy before. 

A video of Gerd Muller is now played on the big screen.

Erik Lamela wins the FIFA Puskas Award! The Tottenham man (now Sevilla) gets it for his Rabona goal against Arsenal and he thanks FIFA for the award. He says he does not practise the Rabona during training and it just comes at that time.

Time for the FIFA Puskas award!

Yaya Toure is invited onto stage to give the award!

Edouard Mendy wins The Best men's goalkeeper! A technical issue means we cannot hear from the Chelsea goalie via videolink.

Time for the best men's goalkeeper now!

Peter Schmeichel is called onto the stage!

Christiane Endler is the best women's goalkeeper! Endler is the first South American to win it and the Chilean reveals at her joy at winning the prize via videolink.

Time for The Best women's goalkeeper!

Former England player Fara Williams is now welcomed onto stage by Jenas and Choudhury.

A video of Canada striker Christine Sinclair is played on stage and then she joins via video link. She has won the The Best FIFA Special award. Former Canadian basketball player Steve Nash has also recorded a video message for his compatriot.

Infantino welcomes everyone and says he hopes the ceremony can return to be in person again next year.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is invited onto stage!

19:00 The ceremony is underway!

Jermaine Jenas and Reshmin Chowdhury are the hosts!

It's almost time for the ceremony!

The ceremony is being held virtually due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Who will win The Best women's coach?

Lluis Cortes of Barcelona, Emma Hayes of Chelsea or Sarina Wiegman of the Dutch and then the English national tem are the candidates.

Who will win The Best women's goalkeeper?

Ann-Katrin Berger of Chelsea, Christiane Endler of PSG and now Lyon and Stephanie Lynn Marie Labbe of Rosengard and now PSG are the options.

Who will win The Best women's player?

Barcelona's Jennifer Hermoso, Chelsea's Sam Kerr and Barcelona's Alexia Putellas are the options.

Who will win The Best men's goalkeeper?

Italy and AC Milan's (now PSG's) Gianluigi Donnarumma, Edouard Mendy of Chelsea and Manuel Neuer of Bayern Munich are the candidates.

Who will win The Best men's coach?

The candidates are Pep Guardiola of Man City, who won the Premier League and reached their first Champions League final, Chelsea's Thomas Tuchel, who won the Champions League, and Roberto Mancini who guided Italy to Euro 2020.

Who will win the Puskas Award?

The Puskas award candidates are Erik Lamela for his Rabona goal for Tottenham at Arsenal, Patrik Schick for his long range strike for Czech Republic against Scotland at the Euros and Mehdi Taremi of Porto for his overhead kick against Chelsea in the Champions League in Sevilla.

There are seven awards in total. Best FIFA Player, Goalkeeper and Coach for both men and women and then the Puskas award for the best goal.

Not long until The Best ceremony begins!

Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski and Mohamed Salah are the candidates for the men's player award. It begins at 19:00 CET.

Hello and welcome to live coverage of the 2021 The Best ceremony where several prizes are awarded.

Join us for live coverage of 2021 The Best ceremony in Zurich to find out who will win the respective prizes. Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski and Mohamed Salah are the candidates for the Men's Best award.