A banner 12 months for the world recreation Down Under has been recognised within the nominations for FIFA’s awards.
Three members of the Matildas’ awe-inspiring World Cup group have been nominated to be topped greatest girls’s participant – Sam Kerr, Mary Fowler and Caitlin Foord.
Australia’s girls’s coach Tony Gustavsson can be up for the gong of greatest girls’s coach after guiding the hosts to a semi-final look, whereas Mackenzie Arnold is within the combine for greatest girls’s goalkeeper.
Coaching sensation Ange Postecoglou is flying the flag for the boys. He’s up towards the likes of Pep Guardiola and Xavi for the crown of greatest males’s coach after following a dominant spell with Celtic by main Tottenham to second place on the English Premier League desk within the early phases of the season.
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 boys’s listing.
Bonmati and three of her World Cup-winning teammates, together with Hermoso, had been among the many 16 nominees for ladies’s greatest participant.
Hermoso has been within the highlight just 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 publish and is due in courtroom on Friday on sexual assault fees.
Manchester City strikers Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez and midfielders Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri and Bernardo Silva are all in competition for the boys’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 greatest girls’s coach.
Man City boss Pep Guardiola, Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi and Postecoglou are on the boys’s listing.
Women’s greatest 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 greatest participant nominees: Julian Alvarez (ARG), Marcelo Brozovic (CRO), Kevin De Bruyne (BEL), Ilkay 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 greatest coach nominees: Peter Gerhardsson (SWE), Jonatan Giraldez (ESP), Tony Gustavsson (SWE), Emma Hayes (ENG), Sarina Wiegman (NED)
Men’s greatest coach nominees: Pep Guardiola (ESP), Simone Inzaghi (ITA), Ange Postecoglou (AUS), Luciano Spalletti (ITA), Xavi (ESP)
– with AFP
Originally revealed as Sam Kerr, Ange Postecoglou lead Aussie invasion at FIFA Football awards
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
