Soccer Equivalent to NBA Awards: #nba #fifa



What are the soccer equivalents of NBA awards?

Starting with the obvious one:
The NBA MVP is like the Ballon d’Or.
Both are used to recognize the best overall player, although the Ballon d’Or includes club and international performances.

The NBA Scoring Title is like the Golden Boot. The Golden Boot is given to the player who scores the most goals throughout a tournament.

Finals MVP is closest to the Golden Ball.
The difference is that the Golden Ball rewards the best player across an entire
tournament, not just the final match itself.

Rookie of the Year is like the Coppa Trophy or Best Young Player Award.
They both recognize the best young rising star, although soccer usually uses an age limit instead of only counting true year 1 rookies.

Coach of the Year is simply Manager of the Year.

Most Improved Player is like Breakthrough Player or Revelation of the Season.

Defensive Player of the Year is closest to a Best Defender Award, although soccer does not have one universal version of this award. You could also argue that the Golden Glove is like the NBA DPOY as well, but it is Goalie specific defense.

The NBA Sportsmanship Award is like a Fair Play Award.

The Puskás Award, which rewards the best goal of the year, is basically soccer’s version of Play of the Year.

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33 thoughts on “Soccer Equivalent to NBA Awards: #nba #fifa”

  1. comparing an nba championship to the world cup is a joke. the closest equivalent is the champions league.

    The olympic gold medal is prob the closest to a fifa world cup but thsts a stretch

  2. These just don’t make sense premier league POTS is the equivalent to NBA MVP, the nba had no equivalent to balon dor as the nba is a single league with no outside awards to win other then maybe the Olympics , which would be their version of the World Cup

  3. Actually no the mvp equivalent in soccer is FIFA’s The Best Trophy because FIFA themselves actually are the ones that see your performance, The Ballon Dor is a trophy that in order to win you need Voting from Journalists,officials and others special types of people to win and the Ballon Dor isn’t hosted by FIFA themselves

  4. No you had it right the first time the Fiba word cup is the equivalent to the FIFA World Cup. Whereas the Larry O’Brien trophies equivalent is more so the Champions league winners and or domestic league winners.

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