London, Hurlingham Club

Tuesday 11th May 2010

 IFFHS

• The World Football Gala is an event organized by the International

Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) and Matchworld
Football SA.
• The IFFHS was founded in 1984 in Germany.This is an organization of
historical and statistical studies on football.
• The IFFHS chronicles very precisely the history of football and has
developed a very sophisticated and scientific system of calculating the best
performances realized by players or coaches in their professional activities
over a specific period.

www.iffhs.de
The following Awards will be presented during the
World Football Gala 2010 (1):

• Europe‘s Club of the Century - Real Madrid CF (Spain)

• South America‘s Club of the Century - CA Peñarol Montevideo (Uruguay)
• Africa‘s Club of the Century - Asante Kotoko FC Kumasi (Ghana)

Real Madrid CA Peñarol Montevideo Asante Kotoko

FC Kumasi
The following Awards will be presented during the
World Football Gala 2010 (2):
• Asia‘s Club of the Century - Al-Hilal FC Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
• Central and North America‘s Club of the Century - CD Saprissa San
Juan de Tibás San José (Costa Rica)
• Oceania‘s Club of the Century - South Melbourne FC (Australia)

Al-Hilal FC Riyadh CD Saprissa San Juan South Melbourne FC

de Tibás San José
The following Awards will be also given during the
World Gala 2010 (3):
• The World‘s best Referee 2009: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)
• The World's best National Coach 2009: Vicente Del Bosque (Spain)
• The World's best Goalkeeper 2009: Iker Casillas (Spain)

Massimo Busacca Vicente Del Bosque IkerCasillas

The following Awards will be also given during the
World Gala 2010 (4):
• The World‘s best Playmaker 2009 : Xavi (Spain)
• The World’s Goalgetters 2009: Shinij Okazaki (Japan) and Didier Drogba
(Ivory Coast)
• The World's best Club Coach 2009: Josep Guardolia (Spain)

Xavi Shinij Okazaki Josep Guardolia

The following Awards will be presented during the
World Gala 2010 (5):
• The World's best Top Division Goal Scorer 2009: Mark Janko(Austria)
• First of the Club World Ranking 2009: FC Barcelona (Spain)
• The strongest National League in the World 2009: England
• The best placed Club of the second highest group of the national leagues
‘’FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC’’ (Ukraine).

Mark Janko FC Barcelona England: FC Shakhtar Donetsk

National League
The Gala will also be attended by:

• Several world famous players invited to present the awards to

their recipients as well as several other top players from
professional clubs based in Europe.

• Several famous and influential personalities of the football world,

a.o. FIFA Executive Committee members, former legendary players,
etc.
Further information may be obtained from the company entrusted with the
organisation of the event:

Matchworld Football SA
Chemin de Cyrano 1
1009 Pully / Lausanne
Switzerland

Tel: +41 21 721 03 20

Fax: +41 21 721 03 29
Email: info@matchworldgroup.com