all of the members making their way into the royal festival hall.the year. ok, let's take a quick look at some of the other stories making the news today. and we'll stay with football. this year, for the first time, there'll be a women's winner of the prestigious ballon d'0r. france football magazine — which runs the award, given to the best player of the year — said creating the prize was a "logical step" given the growing popularity of the women's game. cricket australia say they've found no new information on claims one of their players racially abused england's moeen ali during the 2015 ashes. the allegation was investigated at the time and was re—examined after moeen wrote about it in his new book. team europe have retained the laver cup with a 13—8 victory over team world in chicago. alexander zverev sealed back to back titles for europe with a win over kevin anderson. it wasn't a great day forjohanna konta, though. the british number one lost to australia's ashleigh barty in the first round of the wuhan 0pen. it's the second time konta's been

the winners will be announced on 24 september at royal festival hall in london.hmeichel thinks modric is favourite. people say cristiano won the champions league, people forget that modric won two times in a row, but his performance in the world cup was just incredible, and to watch him lee pearse just incredible, and to watch him lee pea rse —— just incredible, and to watch him lee pearse —— to lead his team and not only be the technical player that we know he is, the guy that provides mx chances for other players, score goals, but to see him be in the final, the one that tackles, the one that runs until he can't run any more, i think his performances were fantastic. and rightly so, he got the best player in the world cup, and ifully rightly so, he got the best player in the world cup, and i fully expect him to win this one. lyon's champions league winning duo ada hegerberg of norway and germay‘s dzsenifer marozsan are the finalists for best fifa women's player, alongside brazilforward marta. i think hegerberg had 41 goals, so thatis i think hegerberg had 41 goa