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The Best FIFA Football Awards™ 2021 ceremony, held as a virtual TV show from the Home of FIFA in Zurich (www.FIFA.com), crowned two household names, Alexia Putellas and Robert Lewandowski, as the outstanding players in women’s and men’s football respectively.

The video interviews below are submitted as reaction files from The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021, following the ceremony. Please note that the submission includes an additional B-roll file from the trophy handover to Alexia Putellas.

Restrictions: Editorial use only

Date: Monday 17 January 2022

Filmed: The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021 from Zürich, interviews conducted virtually (with the exception of Cristiano Ronaldo, which was filmed in Zürich)

Transcripts for the files below are available here (https://bit.ly/3GyviXT)

Christiane Endler: https://bit.ly/3FBqHmj
Spanish, English

Christian Nørkjær: https://bit.ly/3ty2hYN.
English (1 answer in Danish)

Érik Lamela: https://bit.ly/3txRPAt
Spanish (additional answer in English)

Edouard Mendy: https://bit.ly/3nA0Ll9
French and English answers

Emma Hayes and Thomas Tuchel: https://bit.ly/33lo8Ih
English

Thomas Tuchel: https://bit.ly/3nWEfmL
German

Joni Haltia / Jasin Rahmani Christensen: https://bit.ly/3qA7nSn
English with 1 answer each in Finnish and Danish

Alexia Putellas: https://bit.ly/3FBqX4L
Spanish (trophy handover B-roll here, in both 16:9 and 1:1 versions): https://bit.ly/3FCK8eH

Robert Lewandowski: https://bit.ly/3Fxu0ex
English

Robert Lewandowski: https://bit.ly/327wJNV
German

Robert Lewandowski: https://bit.ly/3qytad3
Polish

Christine Sinclair: https://bit.ly/3FzCL7H
English

Cristiano Ronaldo: https://bit.ly/3Kx5yh9
English

Below are links to interviews with FIFA Legends Julio Cesar, Peter Schmeichel, Fara Williams, Lotta Schelin, Lothar Matthaus and Yaya Touré.

Transcripts for the files below are available here (https://bit.ly/3nA1frt)

Julio Cesar (IT): https://bit.ly/3nx4gZh

Peter Schmeichel (EN): https://bit.ly/33N67SI

Fara Williams (EN): https://fifa.fans/3KniSEs

Lotta Schelin (EN): https://bit.ly/3FIeexb

Lothar Matthäus (DE): https://bit.ly/33qBYsE
(transcripts below in German and English)

Yaya Touré (EN): https://bit.ly/3tC5EOr

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of FIFA.

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