Cristiano Ronaldo won a special young player award and Pele was honoured with the FIFPro legend award.

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Earlier this month, Eto'o was the only African named in the World XI by members of FifPro, the worldwide representative organisation for professional players.

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Fifa now plans to set up a sub-group, which will include the players' union FifPro as well as other interested parties, to see how the world governing body can move forward.

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Last year FIFPro, the umbrella group of professional footballers' unions, conducted a survey where they spoke to over 3, 000 European players about their working conditions and the possibility of corruption in the sport.

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"In the past few years, the football world has realized that match fixing is one of the biggest threats to the game, maybe even its biggest threat, " FIFPro said in a stament on their website.

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Once their online reporting method is up and running FIFPro estimate a total of 12, 000 players and 20, 000 people associated with the game will be able to disclose any bullying, intimidation, harassment, and inappropriate approaches.

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It was a good night for Spain, which not only swept the major awards but whose La Liga provided every single member of the FIFA FIFPro World XI following a poll of 50, 00 professional players from all over the world.

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The system, though, was given a lukewarm reception by players, with a poll by world players' union Fifpro finding that 70% of club captains who had competed in the group stages of last season's Europa League had found no improvement in decision making.

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