Hublot presents watches to FIFA winners - Interwatches.com News

On January 9th, the Zurich Kongresshaus played host to the stars of the football world at the FIFA Ballon D’or 2011 awards ceremony, which honors the best players and coaches of the year and specialist journalists.

Among the winners of the evening: Josep “Pep” Guardiola, coach of FC Barcelona, was awarded Best Coach of 2011. Guardiola won five trophies including the Champions League and the Spanish Championship. To mark the event, FIFA presented him with a specially engraved Hublot watch, a Classic Fusion Zirconium automatic model that blends zirconium, carbon, ceramic and rubber.

FIFA Marketing Director Division Thierry Weil presented Hublot watches to the winners of all categories of the FIFA BALLON D’OR 2011. The female winners received one of the brand’s iconic models, an elegant steel Big Bang, with white dial and bezel set with 126 diamonds, and a white rubber strap.

As the grand finale, Sir Alex Ferguson, legendary coach of Manchester United and Hublot ambassador, was presented with the FIFA Presidential Award.