Matildas captain Sam Kerr has been recognised for a stellar 12 months by being short-listed for the FIFA greatest ladies’s participant of the yr award.
The Chelsea star is one in every of 14 gamers nominated for the award, with the candidates additionally together with final yr’s winner, Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas.
Kerr’s achievements in 2022 together with successful the English Women’s Super League Golden Boot for a second straight season, being named the English PFA’s gamers’ participant of the yr and claiming the WSL-FA Cup double with Chelsea.
Kerr, who was runner-up within the award final yr to Putellas, wasn’t the one Australian nominated for a Best FIFA Football Award, with former Central Coast Mariners prodigy Alou Kuol, the older brother of teenage Socceroos sensation Garang Kuol, in competition for the Puskas Award for the aim of the yr.
Kuol’s “scorpion kick” for the Australian under-23 group in opposition to Iraq’s under-23 facet secured him a nomination.
Heading the listing for FIFA’s greatest males’s participant of the yr is Argentine nice and 2022 World Cup winner Lionel Messi, however Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo did not obtain a nomination.
Best FIFA participant nominations:
Men: Julian Alvarez, Jude Bellingham, Karim Benzema, Kevin De Bruyne, Erling Haaland, Achraf Hakimi, Robert Lewandowski, Sadio Mane, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi, Luka Modric, Neymar, Mohamed Salah, Vinicius Junior.
Women: Aitana Bonmati, Debinha, Jessie Fleming, Ada Hegerberg, Sam Kerr, Beth Mead, Vivianne Miedema, Alex Morgan, Lena Oberdorf, Alexandra Popp, Alexia Putellas, Wendie Renard, Keira Walsh, Leah Williamson.
Originally revealed as Matildas captain Sam Kerr earns one other at prime FIFA award after stellar yr
