Matildas captain Sam Kerr is a shock omission from the ultimate three nominees for the FIFA Best Women’s Player of 2022 award.
The Chelsea star was final month named amongst a 14-strong shortlist for the award.
However. the record has now been lowered to 3 gamers, and prolific striker Kerr isn’t one of many then.
Instead, Spain’s Alexia Putellas (Barcelona), England’s Beth Mead (Arsenal) and American Alex Morgan (Orlando Pride/San Diego Wave) will battle it out of the award.
That’s regardless of Kerr – who was runner-up to Putellas for the award final 12 months – having loved a stellar 2022.
Her achievements included profitable the English Women’s Super League Golden Boot for a second straight season, being named the English PFA’s gamers’ participant of the 12 months and claiming the WSL-FA Cup double with Chelsea.
Kerr’s good type has continued this 12 months, with the previous Perth Glory attacker having scored 4 objectives for Chelsea on Friday morning (AEDT) in her aspect’s 7-0 League Cup semi-final thrashing of West Ham.
Following the win, she left England to return dwelling to Australia to characterize the Matildas within the four-team Cup of Nations event, which begins on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the ultimate three nominees for the Best Men’s Player of 2022 award – French pair Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) and Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain), and Argentina’s Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain) – have additionally been introduced.
The awards are voted on by a global jury respectively made up of all girls’s and males’s nationwide group coaches, the present captains of all girls’s and nationwide groups, one “specialist” journalist from every territory represented by a nationwide group, and followers registered on FIFA.com.
Former Central Coast Mariners star Alou Kuol had been on a shortlist of 11 for the FIFA Puskás Award for aim of 12 months.
But Kuol’s memorable “scorpion kick” effort for the Australian under-23 group in opposition to Iraq wasn’t sufficient to safe him a spot within the last three, which is fabricated from objectives from Poland’s Marcin Oleksy, Frenchman Dimitri Payet and Brazilian Richarlison.
The winners of the Best FIFA Football Awards 2022 shall be introduced in Paris on February 27.
Source: www.news.com.au
