FIFA revealed the three nominees for FIFA Player of the Year and FIFA Player of the Year during a live event featuring football legends Kristen Lilly and Sami Khedira. The Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony will be broadcast live from the FIFA headquarters in Zurich on January 17th.
In addition to Australian Sam Kerr, Barcelona players Jennifer Hermoso and Alexia Putillas were nominated for the Best Players award, the most important award in world football.
A mix of images in which we see Spain’s Alexia Putillas, of Barcelona, during the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, Sam Kerr, of Australia during a bronze medal match at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and Jennifer Hermoso, of Barcelona, during the UEFA Champions League, arrived at 2021 FIFA Player of the Year Award Finals.
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For male players, Lionel Messi will compete for honors with Mohamed Salah and Robert Lewandowski to win his second best award, after he achieved in 2019.
Luis Cortes of FC Barcelona. Emma Hayes of Chelsea Women’s and Sabrina Wegman of the Netherlands national team have been nominated as the best coaches in women’s football. The last three nominees for the FIFA Men’s Coach of the Year award were Pep Guardiola of Spanish club Manchester City. Roberto Mancini from Italy and Germany’s Thomas Tuchel from Chelsea.
On Friday, Marti Giovanni, Director of Media Relations and a FIFA journalist, discussed with Kristen Lilly, a former American football player who has played for her country’s women’s football team for 23 years, and Sami Khedira, a former German footballer who played as a midfielder, the qualities of the candidates and the answer. On questions to the audience.
He singled out Khedira on Mancini and said he deserves credit for being “tactically impressive” as well as “a calm, amazing, kind, attacking person”. For her part, Lily expressed her opinion about the best in the women’s branch, noting that it would be a very difficult decision, but her heart would be with Alexia: “It is she who scores the most goals, but they are the two most impressive players.”
Winners are selected by an international jury comprising the current coaches of all national teams, men and women, a captain for each team, a professional journalist from each region represented by a national team and fans registered on FIFA.com.
Best goal of the year
In addition, Erik Lamela, Patrick Schick and Mehdi Taremi were nominated for the Puskas Award for Best Goal of the Year. Lamela was nominated for what was done with Tottenham on 14 March against Arsenal, a shot from almost the front of the area, by Rabona.
Schek was with the national team during the European Championship 2020, he opened the scoring of crossing the Czech Republic and Scotland from the group stage, with a midfield shoe. Taremi completed a Chilean shot against Chelsea in the Champions League.
in the arc
Chelsea’s Anne Catherine Berger, Christian Endler and Stephanie Lynn Marie Labbe all fall into the top scorer category. Gianluigi Donnarumma, Edward Mendy and Nahuel Neuer will compete for the top scorer award.
Solidarity is rewarded too
The Best Fan Award aims to “highlight a memorable moment or gesture to any fan or fan group regardless of league level, gender, or nationality.” Also included is the Best Fan Award, Fans of Denmark and Finland (Fans of Denmark and Finland), Fans of German Football (Fans of German Football).
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