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Robert Lewandowski is named ‘The Best’ by FIFA for a second year in a row
Robert Lewandowski has seen off Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Lionel Messi to be named the highest males’s participant at FIFA’s ‘The Finest’ awards.
The Bayern Munich star retained the award he picked up final yr following a prolific 2021 in assault for the Bundesliga giants.
Lewandowski stated: ‘Thanks very a lot. I’m very honoured to win this trophy and really feel proud. I do know it belongs to my team-mates and coaches. All of us work laborious to win the video games. It’s particular to work with these guys round me.
Robert Lewandowski has retained his award as high males’s participant in FIFA’s ‘The Finest’ awards
Lewandowski noticed off competitors from Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah (left) and Lionel Messi
‘I by no means dream about breaking this file [of Gerd Muller’s]. To attain 41 in 29 video games – for those who ask me that just a few years in the past whether it is doable I might let you know it’s unimaginable. I additionally say to him thank-you. He set so many data and to me it was all the time the subsequent step to attempt to break it.’
On the occasion held at FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich Switzerland, Chelsea stopper Edouard Mendy gained FIFA’s ‘The Finest’ goalkeeper prize to be topped the world’s greatest shot stopper.
Having gained the Champions League with Chelsea final season, Mendy noticed off rivals Gianluigi Donnarumma, who gained Euro 2020 with Italy, in addition to Bayern’s Manuel Neuer.
The Blues success in Europe additionally ensured Thomas Tuchel picked up the award for greatest supervisor.
Chelsea stopper Edouard Mendy gained greatest goalkeeper award at FIFA’s ‘The Finest’ awards
The Blues additionally noticed Thomas Tuchel win the lads’s greatest coach prize having arrived final yr
Mendy and Tuchel have been essential in direction of serving to Chelsea win the Champions League
Tuchel noticed off competitors from Manchester Metropolis boss Pep Guardiola, who gained the Premier League title however misplaced the Champions League remaining to the Blues, whereas Roberto Mancini was additionally pipped regardless of his gorgeous success with Italy at Euro 2020 – beating England within the remaining.
Tuchel revealed his delight on the award saying: ‘It was a reasonably regular day to this point at coaching. I’ve simply come right here. However now you may have stated my identify and it’s fairly surreal. I’m overwhelmed and a bit uncomfortable.
‘I benefit from the journey and the membership. It’s a good match. The corporate on the journey is so good. We misplaced a little bit of monitor to Manchester Metropolis within the league however we comply with our objectives nonetheless and be one of the best model of ourselves.’
It was double success for Chelsea with Emma Hayes incomes the award for greatest ladies’s coach
It was double success for Chelsea in one of the best supervisor award with Emma Hayes successful greatest ladies’s coach.
Hayes, 45, guided the Blues to Girls’s Tremendous League and League Cup glory final season and steered the London facet to the Champions League remaining.
She was named WSL supervisor of the season for her feats and was awarded an OBE within the New Yr Honours for providers to soccer.
Erik Lamela’s gorgeous rabona purpose for Tottenham earned one of the best purpose of the yr award
Lamela’s strike towards Arsenal earned the now Sevilla ahead the highest prize on the FIFA awards
In the meantime, Erik Lamela picked up the Puskas award for greatest purpose following his unbelievable Rabona strike for Tottenham Hotspur towards Arsenal within the north London derby final season on the Emirates Stadium.
Lamela, who has since moved to Sevilla, noticed off sturdy competitors from Czech Republic’s Patrik Schick who had scored an unbelievable 45-yard strike at Euro 2020 towards Scotland at Hampden Park in addition to Mehdi Taremi bicycle kick for Porto towards Chelsea final April within the Champions League.
‘To be truthful, I by no means observe this in coaching. It’s one thing that is available in one second.’, Lamela stated after incomes the award.
There was much more success for Chelsea within the males’s greatest XI award, with Jorginho and Kante that includes, together with Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester Metropolis pair Kevin de Bruyne and Ruben Dias.
Lionel Messi additionally squeezed right into a workforce which lined up in a 3-3-4 formation and likewise included Donnarumma, David Alaba, Leonardo Bonucci, Erling Haaland and Robert Lewandowski.
Ronaldo although did choose up one private prize, together with his file 115 worldwide objectives being recognised in a particular award to spherical off the ceremony.
The Portugal star, who picked up the award in particular person, stated: ‘It’s a dream. To start with, I’ve to say thanks to my team-mates within the nationwide workforce within the final 20 years that I used to play with.
Cristiano Ronaldo picked up a particular award after scoring a file 115 objectives for Portugal
The Manchester United star was current in Zurich, Switzerland to gather his prize
‘The file was 109, proper? So six forward. I’m so proud. It’s a particular award from Fifa – an organisation I respect so much. I additionally should thank my household. Quickly I will probably be a father once more. I’m proud. It’s nice to be the goalscorer of all time.
‘I nonetheless have the eagerness for the sport and to attain objectives. I play soccer since I used to be 5 years outdated. After I go to the pitch, even in coaching, my motivation remains to be there. Even 37 quickly, I really feel good. I preserve working laborious. I like the sport and have the eagerness. I wish to proceed. I hope to play perhaps 4 or 5 years, It’s all psychological. When you deal with your physique good, once you want it it should give again.’
Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas pipped her team-mate Jenni Hermoso and Chelsea’s Sam Kerr to assert the ladies’s prize for greatest general participant, whereas Chile’s Christiane Endler, who joined Lyon from Paris St Germain in June 2021, was named ladies’s goalkeeper of the yr.
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