Ready to add another individual award to his rich trophy case is Lionel Messias her event is scheduled tonight FIFA for ‘The Best’ 2022 awards.
After three years behind closed doors, the FIFA awards will welcome the world’s football leaders to the Salle Pleyel in Paris.
As authoritative sources leak, with one of these Fabrizio Romano, o Lionel Messi will be the big winner of the award, after winning the World Cup in Qatar with Argentina.
Lionel Messi scores 700 club goals in his incredible career — 28 goals with PSG & 672 with Barcelona ?????? #Messi
Messi also has two assists for Mbappe tonight…
…and Leo’s also gonna win “The Best” FIFA Award on Monday in Paris ?? pic.twitter.com/ylyQXbQrgh
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) February 26, 2023
The award period covers the 2021-2022 season but also the first half of the 2022-2023 season where the World Cup was held. Last season, Mr Robert Lewandowski and Alexia Pouteyas had won the award as the top players in men’s and women’s football respectively.
The ceremony will be broadcast live directly by ANT1+ on Clean Monday at 22:00.
The 14 candidate players
Julian Alvarez (River, Manchester City, Argentina)
Jude Bellingham (Dortmund, England)
Karim Benzema (Real, France)
Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City, Belgium)
Erling Haaland (Dortmund, Manchester City, Norway)
Ashraf Hakimi (Paris, Morocco)
Vinicius (Real, Brazil)
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern, Barcelona, Poland)
Sadio Mane (Liverpool, Bayern, Senegal)
Kylian Mbappe (Paris, France)
Lionel Messi (Paris, Argentina)
Luka Modric (Real, Croatia)
Neymar (Paris, Brazil)
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, Egypt)
The nominees for all the awards
BEST PLAYER
Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona, Spain)
Debinha (North Carolina Courage, Brazil)
Jesse Fleming (Chelsea, Canada)
Ada Heggerberg (Lyon, Norway)
Sam Kerr (Chelsea, Australia)
Beth Meade (Arsenal, England)
Vivian Miedema (Arsenal, Netherlands)
Alex Morgan (Orlando Pride, San Diego Wave, USA)
Lena Oberdorf (Wolfsburg, Germany)
Alexandra Popp (Wolfsburg, Germany)
Alexia Pouteyas (Barcelona, Spain)
Wendy Renard (Lyon, France)
Kiera Walsh (Manchester City, Barcelona, England)
Leah Williamson (Arsenal, England)
BEST MEN’S TEAM COACH
Carlo Ancelotti (Real)
Didier Deschamps (France)
Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)
Walid Regraghi (Morocco)
Lionel Scaloni (Argentina)
BEST WOMEN’S TEAM COACH
Sonia Bobastor (Lyon)
Emma Hayes (Chelsea)
Beverley Priestman (Canada)
Pia Sundage (Brazil)
Martina Foss Tecklenburg (Germany)
Sarina Wigman (England)
BEST GOALKEEPER
Alison (Liverpool, Brazil)
Yassin Bounou (Seville, Morocco)
Thibaut Courtois (Real, Belgium)
Anderson (Manchester City, Brazil)
Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa, Argentina)
BEST GOALKEEPER
Cristiane Edler (Lyon, Chile)
Ann Kathryn Berger (Chelsea, Germany)
Mary Earps (Manchester United, England)
Merle Fromms (Eintracht, Wolfsburg, Germany)
Alyssa Neyer (Chicago Red Stars, USA)
Sandra Panios (Barcelona, Spain)
PHILATHLON AWARD
Abdullah al-Salmi (walked 55 days in the desert of Saudi Arabia to get to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup)
Argentina fans (for their support of the national team in Qatar)
Japan fans (because they were cleaning the World Cup stadiums when they left the stands)
There will be an award for the best goal of the period under review (Puskas Award), a Fair Play Award and the best men’s and women’s XIs from FIFPro will be announced
Edited by: Christos Lois
Source: Sport Fm
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