FIFA hands over the running of its annual awards to the Dubai Sports Council

January 1 – FIFA’s Best Awards, launched in a shiny blaze of publicity and showbiz glamour in 2017 after a partnership fallout out with the more established Ballon d’Or Awards, have now been canned in favour of a new partnership with the Dubai Sports Council (DSC).

Starting in December this year, the awards will be hosted in Dubai under the auspices of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between FIFA and the DSC at the World Sports Summit in Dubai earlier this week.

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