page_title: FIFA Puskás Award
section_title: 2013
hierarchical_section_title: FIFA Puskás Award / Winners and nominees / 2013
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Zlatan Ibrahimović på presskonferens den 21 mars 2013 inför kvalmatchen mot Irland. English: Zlatan Ibrahimović at a press conference March 21, 2013 before the qualifying match against Ireland.
context_page_description: The FIFA Puskás Award is an award established on 20 October 2009 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, at the behest of then-president Sepp Blatter, in order to award the player, male or female, judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant, or "most beautiful", goal of the calendar year.
  The award is in honour of Ferenc Puskás, the striker of Real Madrid during the late 1950s and the 1960s, and central member of the highly successful Hungarian side of the same era. Puskás is widely considered by many to be the most powerful and prolific forward European football produced in first-division football, and scored a once world record of 84 goals in 85 internationals. He is one of the top scorers of the 20th century, with 512 goals in 528 matches.
  "It is important to preserve the memory of those footballing greats who have left their mark on our history. Ferenc Puskás was not only a player with immense talent who won many honours, but also a remarkable man. FIFA is therefore delighted to pay tribute to him by dedicating this award to his memory," said Blatter at the inauguration of the award in Budapest.
context_section_description: The following list includes the nominees for the 2013 award. Voting was possible through the FIFA.com website until 9 December 2013, after a second voting round was held between the top three goals from the first round. The award to the winning goal from the second round was presented on 13 January 2014.
caption: Zlatan Ibrahimović's 35-yard overhead kick with his back to goal, won him praise from players and pundits, with the BBC describing it as a goal that "combined unfathomable imagination and expert technique".[3]
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