Knowing The History Of The Puskas Award, One Of The Prestigious Awards In The World Of Football

Illustration of the Puskas Award. (Photo: FIFA official website)

YOGYAKARTA In the world of football, there is an award called the Puskas Award. This award is quite prestigious in the world of football. Then how is the history of the Puskas Award?

In general, the Puskas Award, which is one of the awards at The Best FIFA Football Awards, is an award given specifically to football athletes with the most beautiful goals in one season both for male and female athletes.

On the official FIFA website, it was explained that the Puskas Award was initiated by FIFA and was launched on October 20, 2009 at the direction of FIFA President Sepp Blatter. The compactification was carried out in the middle of the Ferenc Puskas Football Academy ceremony which was held in the village of Felksut, Budapest, Hungary.

This award was deliberately made as a form of appreciation for the late Ferenc Puskas. He is a former Hungarian national team star and Real Madrid striker who died in 2006.

The name Ferenc Puskas himself was recorded in the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) as the most productive footballer in history because he managed to score 806 goals from 793 official matches. Meanwhile, while defending Hungary, he scored 84 goals with a total of 85 matches.

However, on November 17, 2006, Ferenc Puskas died of pneumonia. He was then buried in Budapest. Several years after he died, FIFA then asked permission from the Puskas family to use his name as an award in the world of football.

The Ferenc Puskas award was indeed initiated by the president of FIFA, but this idea came from Dr. Istvan Csorba. After he got approval from the family, Dr. Istvan Csorba then proposed this to FIFA. Unfortunately Dr. Istvan Csorba could not see how the practice of this award was because he died on October 9, 2009.

The winner of the first Puskas Award at that time was won by Cristiano Ronaldo. The award was obtained after he managed to score a goal against him from a distance of 35 meters. At that time Ronaldo defended Man United against FC Porto in the 2008-2009 Champions League.

The following is a list of footballers who won the Ferenc Puskas award.

The shape of the trophy given to the Puskas Award is very unique, namely in the form of a goal and a ball. Not only in the form of a trophy, the Puskas Award announcement is also highly anticipated. The committee will carry out curation from various phenomenal goals from around the world that are collected to one. After that the committee will announce who is the footballer who is entitled to the Puskas Award on the eve of the Ballon d'Or award every year. This decision is absolute and the winner always changes. In fact, many names are not very popular in the world of football but have spectacular goals.

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