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
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