Excitement builds as celebrity soccer players prepare for Dubai Globe Soccer Awards

Scaloni, Capello, Casemiro and Terry among the high-profile names expected to attend Global Soccer Awards ceremony, organised with support of Dubai Sports Council

Dubai: The 18th edition of the Dubai International Sports Conference, held in conjunction with the 14^th edition of the Dubai Globe Soccer Awards and supported by Dubai Sports Council, will see a plethora of current and former international superstars descending on Nakheel’s Atlantis, The Palm on Friday, January 19th, 2024.

A night of glitz and glamour will see more than 1,000 guests gather at the prestigious five-star venue located on Palm Jumeirah, one of the world’s largest man-made islands and a marvel of luxury and engineering courtesy of leading Dubai-based real estate developer Nakheel.

A host of familiar faces will be reunited in the emirate, including a range of representatives from European champions Manchester City, Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni, Brazil captain Casemiro, Italian veteran coach Fabio Capello, former England captain John Terry, and a host of other high-profile personnel from clubs and organisations around the world.

The Dubai International Sports Conference, organised under the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, will take place alongside the Globe Soccer Awards 2023. Since its inception in 2010, the awards have brought together football’s most prominent stakeholders for an evening of celebration across domestic, regional, and international levels, while the co-located Conference provides the industry a platform to discuss and explore some of the key issues of the sport.

The theme of this year’s summit centres around ‘Sustainability and Performance in Football’, coinciding with the Dubai Globe Soccer Awards and DSC announcing a pioneering partnership with Neutral Carbon Zone. The collaboration marks the first step of Globe Soccer’s journey to #NetZero, starting with the World’s First Carbon Neutral Soccer Awards.

On the night, there will be 18 main awards, including  Best Men’s Player, Best Woman’s Player, Best Men’s Club and Best Woman’s Club and Fans’ Favourite Player, as well as five digital awards and two inaugural Serie A accolades.

A new record was set during the two respective stages of the nomination process, with an accumulative total of more than 70 million votes – double the number of votes registered in 2022. Meanwhile, an unprecedented number of downloads were recorded for the new Globe Soccer mobile application, with 1.5 million people registering their votes on the dedicated app.

About Globe Soccer

Founded by Tommaso Bendoni and co-owned by Riccardo Silva, Globe Soccer is a Dubai-based football organisation that since 2010 has coordinated one of the most eagerly awaited and coveted awards ceremonies on the footballing calendar: The Dubai Globe Soccer Awards. Attracting high-profile attendees each year, the international event is unique in that it recognises and rewards all stakeholders in the game, from players to chairmen, fans to agents, directors to referees. Global reach has grown year-on-year, with the 2022 event proving no exception, surpassing all previous records with the number of awards increasing to 21, fan votes exceeding 47 million, and social media followers passing 6.5 million.