Women’s World Cup participant of the match Aitana Bonmati and her Spain teammate Jenni Hermoso had been on Thursday nominated for the FIFA Best Player award, with six of Manchester City’s treble winners named on the lads’s listing.
Bonmati and three of her World Cup-winning teammates, together with Hermoso, had been among the many 16 nominees for ladies’s finest participant.
Hermoso has been within the highlight lately after being forcibly kissed on the lips by Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales following the World Cup ultimate win over England in Sydney.
The disgraced Rubiales has since resigned from the submit and is due in court docket on Friday on sexual assault fees.
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Manchester City strikers Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez and midfielders Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri and Bernardo Silva are all in rivalry for the lads’s prize.
Ilkay Gundogan, who gained the treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League with City earlier than leaving for Barcelona, was additionally nominated.
Last 12 months’s winner Lionel Messi made the lower as effectively after his current good kind for MLS membership Inter Miami.
Controversial World Cup-winning Spain coach Jorge Vilda, who has since been sacked, was left off the shortlist for finest ladies’s coach.
Man City boss Pep Guardiola, Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi and Ange Postecoglou, who joined Tottenham from Celtic within the shut season, are on the lads’s listing.
FIFA Best Nominees
Women’s finest participant nominees: Aitana Bonmati (ESP), Linda Caicedo (COL), Rachel Daly (ENG), Kadidiatou Diani (FRA), Caitlin Foord (AUS), Mary Fowler (AUS), Alex Greenwood (ENG), Jenni Hermoso (ESP), Lindsey Horan (USA), Amanda Ilestedt (SWE), Lauren James (ENG), Sam Kerr (AUS), Mapi Leon (ESP), Hinata Miyazawa (JPN), Salma Paralluelo (ESP), Keira Walsh (ENG)
Men’s finest participant nominees: Julian Alvarez (ARG), Marcelo Brozovic (CRO), Kevin De Bruyne (BEL), İlkay Gundogan (GER), Erling Haaland (NOR), Rodri (ESP), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (GEO), Kylian Mbappe (FRA), Lionel Messi (ARG), Victor Osimhen (NGR), Declan Rice (ENG), Bernardo Silva (POR)
Women’s finest coach nominees: Peter Gerhardsson (SWE), Jonatan Giraldez (ESP), Tony Gustavsson (SWE), Emma Hayes (ENG), Sarina Wiegman (NED)
Men’s finest coach nominees: Pep Guardiola (ESP), Simone Inzaghi (ITA), Ange Postecoglou (AUS), Luciano Spalletti (ITA), Xavi (ESP)
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com