The Best Awards, FIFA’s annual gala for celebrating the most impressive players and coaches in the game, are scheduled to take place in December and several LaLiga Santander stars have been named on the various shortlists for the awards.

This certainly isn’t the first time. In each of the first four editions of these awards, The Best FIFA Men's Player prize went to a LaLiga Santander footballer. Cristiano Ronaldo won it twice while still at Real Madrid, Luka Modric won it once and Lionel Messi took the honour last year. In addition to that, Real Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois has one The Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper award to his name and Los Blancos coach Zinedine Zidane has been crowned The Best FIFA Men's Coach once before.