Canada’s Jessie Fleming, Bev Priestman shortlisted for FIFA Awards
Midfielder Jessie Fleming, named Canada’s participant of the yr in December, is now in competition for the Best FIFA Women’s Player.
Canada coach Bev Priestman has additionally been shortlisted for the Best FIFA Women’s Coach.
FIFA introduced its shortlist for its Best Football Awards on Thursday. Nominees for the lads’s award embody France’s Kylian Mbappé, Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Neymar.
Fleming is one in every of 14 nominees for the Best FIFA Women’s Player. Her opposition consists of Chelsea teammate Sam Kerr of Australia.
Fleming, who has received the Canada Soccer Player of the Year Award the final two years, has received 111 caps for Canada and led the nationwide group in minutes performed in every of the final two seasons. The 24-year-old from London, Ont., and American Alex Morgan are the one North American gamers on the FIFA ladies’s shortlist.
Other nominees are Aitana Bonmatí (Spain/FC Barcelona), Debinha (Brazil/North Carolina Courage), Ada Hegerberg (Norway/Olympique Lyonnais), Beth Mead (England/Arsenal); Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands/Arsenal), Lena Oberdorf (Germany/VfL Wolfsburg), Alexandra Popp (Germany/VfL Wolfsburg), Alexia Putellas (Spain/FC Barcelona), Wendie Renard (France/Olympique Lyonnais), Keira Walsh (England/Manchester City/ FC Barcelona) and Leah Williamson (England/Arsenal).
In October, Putellas received the rival Women’s Ballon d’Or for the second yr in a row. Mead and Kerr have been runners-up.
Putellas additionally received the FIFA award in 2021, when Canada captain Christine Sinclair completed fifth.
In 2022, Fleming helped Canada qualify for the 2023 Women’s World Cup whereas ending runner-up on the CONCACAF W Championship. Fleming was tied for the competitors scoring lead with three targets in 5 matches and was named to the match all-star group.
At membership stage, she helped Chelsea win the FA Women’s Super League and FA Cup in England.
The yr additionally noticed Fleming lead out Canada for the primary time after which mark her milestone a centesimal senior worldwide look, in June in opposition to South Korea.
Priestman is one in every of six candidates for Best FIFA Women’s Coach. The different nominees are Sonia Bompastor (Olympique Lyonnais), Emma Hayes (Chelsea), Pia Sundhage (Brazil); Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (Germany) and Sarina Wiegman (England).
Hayes received the 2021 FIFA award with Priestman ending fourth, simply failing to make the listing of finalists, regardless of main Canada to Olympic gold.
Under Priestman, the sixth-ranked Canadian ladies went 11-3-3 in 2022 with wins over No. 2 Germany, No. 9 Brazil and No. 12 Australia. Canada additionally tied No. 4 England on the street.
Other males’s nominees are Julian Alvarez (Argentina/Club Atletico River Plate/Manchester City), Jude Bellingham (England/BV Borussia 09 Dortmund), Karim Benzema (France/Real Madrid), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium/Manchester City), Erling Haaland (Norway/BV Borussia 09 Dortmund/Manchester City), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco/Paris Saint-Germain); Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Bayern Munich/FC Barcelona), Sadio Mane (Senegal /Liverpool/Bayern Munich), Luka Modric (Croatia/Real Madrid), Mohamed Salah (Egypt/Liverpool) and Vinicius Junior (Brazil/Real Madrid CF).
Lewandowski received the FIFA award the final two years. Benzema is the present Ballon d’Or winner.
Canadidates for Best FIFA Men’s Manager are Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid), Didier Deschamps (France), Pep Guardiola (Manchester City); Walid Regragui (Morocco) and Lionel Scaloni (Argentina).
Nominees for The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper are Alisson Becker (Brazil/Liverpool), Montreal-born Yassine Bounou (Morocco/Sevilla), Thibaut Courtois (Belgium/Real Madrid), Ederson (Brazil/Manchester City) and Emiliano Martínez (Argentina/Aston Villa).
The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper nominees are Ann-Katrin Berger (Germany/Chelsea), Mary Earps (England/Manchester United), Christiane Endler (Chile/Olympique Lyonnais), Merle Frohms (Germany/Eintracht Frankfurt/VfL Wolfsburg), Alyssa Naeher (U.S./Chicago Red Stars) and Sandra Panos García-Villamil (Spain/FC Barcelona).
Canada’s Stephanie Labbé was a finalist for the award final yr. She has since retired and is now the Vancouver Whitecaps’ basic supervisor of girls’s soccer.
Two “expert panels” — one for girls’s soccer and one for males’s soccer — chosen the candidates for the gamers’, goalkeepers’ and coaches’ classes. Canadian Dwayne De Rosario was on the lads’s panel.
Fans can vote on the awards through the FIFA web site. The three finalists in every of the classes can be introduced in early February.
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