Premios Laureus

Academy Award is the award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. This award is a jury composed of lawyers, writers, technicians, producers, directors and actors and it is they who vote for the winners of the statuette that is the highest recognition for best picture. For Laureus World Sports Academy emerged in 2000 to deliver the same award but in sport. And for 2011-for his performance in 2010 - the winners are ...

Best International Male Athlete of the Year: Rafael Nadal

Best International Female Athlete of the Year: Lindsey Vonn

Best international team of the year: Spanish Football Selection

Best international revelation of the year: Martin Kaymer

Best international comeback of the year: Valentino Rossi

International disabled sportsman of the year: Verena Bentele

Best international extreme athlete of the year: Kelly Slater

Special award for a lifetime career, Zinedine Zidane

As we can see, Spain in the person of Rafa and the team champion in South Africa 2010 is left with the two most important awards. Strangely the award to Valentino Rossi ...

The jury of the Laureus is composed of athletes such as Giacomo Agostini, Severiano Ballesteros, Franz Beckenbauer, Boris Becker, Ian Botham, Sergey Bubka, Bobby Charlton, Sebastian Coe, Nadia Comaneci, Yaping Deng, Kapil Dev, David Douillet, Emerson Fittipaldi, Sean Fitzpatrick, Dawn Fraser, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Tony Hawk, Miguel Indurain. Michael Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kip Keino, Franz Klammer, Dan Marino, John McEnroe, Edwin Moses (Chairman), Nawal El Moutawakel, Robby Naish, Ilie Nastase, Martina Navratilova, Jack Nicklaus, Pelé, Gary Player, Morne du Plessis, Hugo Porta, Viv Richards, Monica Seles, Mark Spitz, Daley Thompson, Alberto Tomba, Steve Waugh, Katarina Witt and Yasuhiro Yamashita.

There are only Diego Armando Maradona and some others ... They are (almost) everyone!