The Best FIFA Men's Player 2019: Three players whose nominations are questionable

#1 Harry Kane

Harry Kane.

FIFA have made a whole lot of blunders in their almost three decades of handing out individual awards, but Harry Kane's inclusion in the nominees for Best Player in 2019 has to rank high up there with those

For all of the top quality forwards who were omitted, Kane's inclusion looks all the more contentious in contrast. Kane missed a whopping 91 days (17 matches) of action due to injury in 2018/2019, played no part in Tottenham's knockout run in the Champions League (after getting injured in the last eight clash with Manchester City), was rushed to play the final and offered next to nothing against Liverpool; with many faulting Mauricio Pochettino for starting him over Lucas Moura, but still found a way to make it to the list of best 10 players in the world.

Kane was strangely started ahead of Lucas Moura in the Champions League final.

Kane has been arguably the best striker in the world over the last five years, but it is rather puzzling that in the 2016/2017 season when he scored 29 league goals, successfully retaining his Golden Boot and outscoring both Messi and Ronaldo in the calendar year, he could only make it to 24th place in the ranking of Best Men's Player, but in a season which saw him score just 17 league goals, he has made it to the top 10. Defies logic, isn't it?

Fabio Quagiarella, Raheem Sterling, Nicolas Pepe, Luka Jovic, just to name a few, are among the many forwards who outperformed Harry Kane over the course of the last year; so the Tottenham man should feel lucky to have included in the exalted list.

Luka Jovic-did he have a better season than Kane?

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