FIFA has listed 10 players who are in the running for the Golden Ball award for the World Cup's best player.
Spain has three nominees - David Villa, Xavi and Andres Iniesta.
Iniesta
David Villa
Xavi
Germany has two in Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mesut Ozil, and the Netherlands also has two in Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder.
Mesut Ozil
Other nominees are Diego Forlan of Uruguay, Asamoah Gyan of Ghana and Argentina's Lionel Messi.
Messi
Forlan
Accredited media at the World Cup will vote for the best player.
Three other players have been short-listed for the Best Young Player award.
The three nominees are Germany's Thomas Mueller, Mexican Giovani Dos Santos and Andre Ayew of Ghana.
For Mueller, the nomination marks another step in a meteoric rise from reserve team football with Bayern Munich just over a year ago to the brink of a major award at the game's highest level.
He has been in outstanding form in Germany's bold campaign, scoring four goals and credited with three assists.
He only made his first appearance for Germany in March and has been in devastating touch at the World Cup, particularly in the big wins over Australia, England and Argentina.
Dos Santos played most of the last club football season on loan in Turkey with Galatasaray.
This is not his first World Cup experience - he was a winner of the under-17 world championship played in Peru in 2005.
Ayew has also tasted success at international level, as a winner of the under-20 world championship with Ghana last year.
The son of all-time African great Abedi Pele was a vital part of Ghana's surprise run to the quarter-finals and man-of-the-match in the second round clash with the United States, which Ghana won 2-1 in extra-time.
Both awards will be announced after the World Cup final.
Source:http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/09/2949949.htm?site=sport§ion=football
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