It’s Lionel Messi vs Kylian Mbappe once more, this time for the FIFA Best Men’s Player award for 2022.
Eight weeks after Argentina’s World Cup-winning captain and France’s celebrity ahead led their groups to an epic ultimate in Qatar, FIFA introduced a shortlist of three gamers on Friday.
Karim Benzema accomplished the highest three in voting by a world panel of nationwide staff captains and coaches in addition to chosen journalists from every of FIFA’s 211 member nations, in addition to followers voting on-line.
In the Best Women’s Player award, Beth Mead of England, Alex Morgan of the United States and Alexia Puteles of Spain have been chosen for voting by a separate international voting panel.
The winners can be introduced at a ceremony on February 27 in Paris.
Messi edged out Embappé for the Golden Ball, awarded by FIFA to one of the best participant within the World Cup. Croatia captain Luka Modric completed third in that competitors.
Another duel is predicted for the Paris Saint-Germain team-mates, with Messi favored for a seventh win at FIFA’s annual particular person award. Embappé scores his first strive.
Messi gained his final six awards when it was named FIFA World Player of the Year (2009), the FIFA Ballon d’Or every year from 2010–12 and once more in 2015, then the present title of Best FIFA Men’s Player in 2019.
Mbappe is shortlisted for the primary time, though he was fourth within the voting for the 2018 award. The 24-year-old has completed sixth, seventh and eighth within the final three years.
Robert Lewandowski has gained the FIFA award for the final two years.
The extra prestigious Ballon d’Or award, organized by France Football journal, was gained by Karim Benzema in October forward of the World Cup. France ahead is out of the event resulting from harm. Messi was not on the lengthy checklist of Ballon d’Or candidates introduced in August.
Putelas gained one of the best ladies’s participant of the yr award for 2021 and the Barcelona playmaker once more completed within the high three regardless of struggling an harm days earlier than the European Championship and being dominated out of the event for Spain.
Mead led England to the Euro 2022 title because the event’s joint top-scorer and was named their participant of the yr. She suffered a critical knee harm whereas enjoying for Arsenal in November and couldn’t participate within the Women’s World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, beginning in July.
Morgan, who was second to teammate Megan Rapinoe within the 2019 vote, was participant of the event final yr when the US gained the CONCACAF W championship. She was additionally the joint high scorer.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
