PLDC - Tehran, The ceremony for the selection of the FIFA World Player of the Year is to be held in Zurich on Tuesday Jan, 8th and Ali Daei will be present in the ceremony as the FIFA technical committee member.

He said, “I have been invited to this ceremony as previous years. I will fly to Swiss next Monday and return on Wednesday. I attend the ceremony on behalf of Iranians.”

Regarding this year selection he added, “As I mentioned before, I think the odds for Lionel Messi is more than the other players, but the odds for Pep Guardiola is not great. We have to wait until the ceremony is held and see who is to be selected.”