Coleman Up For Coach Of The Year

Last updated : 02 November 2016 By CNS Sport/AO

Former Coventry City manager Chris Coleman is one of the nominees for FIFA's Coach of 2016.

Coleman, as Wales boss steered his country to the Euro 2016 semi-finals and is nominated along with Leicester City's Claudio Ranieri, Pep Guardiola (Manchester City), Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool) and Mauricio Pochettino (Tottenham Hotspur), Didier Deschamps (France), Luis Enrique (Spain), Fernando Santos (Portugal), Diego Simeone (Argentina) and Zenedine Zidane (Real Madrid).

The vote will be decided by a vote split 50% between global players and coaches as well as an online public ballot and 200 members of the media from around the world and announced on January 9th 2017.