Best FIFA Football Awards 2022
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Lionel Messi and Alexia Putellas were named the Men’s and Women’s Player of the Year for 2022 at the Fifa Best Awards on Monday. Best FIFA Football Awards
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Despite an ACL injury in July, the Barcelona captain won the honor for a consecutive time after leading her club to a perfect league record and finished as the 2021/22 Women’s Champions League top scorer (11 goals).
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Messi, meanwhile, helped Argentina win World Cup glory with seven goals and picked up his 77th individual award in football. Best FIFA Football Awards 2022
Puskás Award: Marcin Oleksy
The Polish amputee’s scissor kick for Warta Poznan beat out some top talent for the award, edging Marseille’s Dimitri Payet and Brazil’s Richarlison. Best FIFA Football Awards 2022
FIFA FIFPRO World XI
Here is who made the best starting eleven for women’s football…
Lionesses captain Leah Williamson headlines a quartet of England players in the FIFA FIFPRO Women’s World XI, along with Beth Mead, Lucy Bronze and Keira Walsh.
The World XI is unique in being the only global player award decided exclusively by footballers. Best FIFA Football Awards 2022
The FIFA FIFPRO Women’s World 11 was revealed at The Best FIFA Football Awards in Paris on Monday, celebrating the most outstanding women’s players in the current game.
Wendie Renard made history by being included in the World 11 for a record seventh successive time – meaning the French defender has been present in every Women’s World 11 team since the award’s launch in 2015.
Every year FIFPRO invites the world’s professional footballers to choose their World 11. It is the only global player award decided exclusively by footballers.
Players from 68 countries cast their votes for the World 11. The 2022 Women’s World 11 marked a record-breaking year for voting with over 6,000 players casting their ballots for the best players during the period 7 August 2021 to 31 July 2022 inclusive.
And for men’s football…
Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Karim Benzema, and Erling Haaland all make the cut in a four-man attack in the FIFA FIFPRO Men’s World XI, leaving the other six outfield players with the unenviable task of covering the remaining space should this fictional team ever take to the pitch.
“We would probably have the ball for the whole match anyway,” quips Casemiro, who is also in, when told the team might be too attacking.
All other winners
Men’s Goalkeeper of te Year: Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa/Argentina)
Aston Villa’s Emiliano Martinez has been named the Best Fifa Men’s Goalkeeper for 2022. Argentina’s World Cup-winning keeper finished in front of Morocco and Sevilla’s Yassine Bounou and Thibaut Courtois of Real Madrid and Belgium
Women’s Goalkeeper of the Year – Mary Earps (Manchester United/England)
Men’s Coach of the Year – Lionel Scaloni (Argentina)
Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni has been voted FIFA men’s coach of the year after leading his team to the World Cup title in December. Argentina’s coach Lionel Scaloni speaks after receiving the Best FIFA Men’s Coach award during the ceremony of the Best FIFA Football Awards in Paris, France, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023
Women’s Coach of the Year – Sarina Wiegman (England)
Manchester United Women goalkeeper Mary Earps has been named ‘Best Women’s Goalkeeper’ at this year’s 2023 FIFPRO awards. The 29-year-old has enjoyed a whirlwind twelve months for both club and country level, having claimed the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 with England last summer
Fifa Fan Award – Argentinian fans
Argentinian fans have won the Best FIFA Fan Award 2022. They generated a brilliant atmosphere to help Argentina clinch the World Cup trophy.
Fifa Fair Play Award – Luka Lochoshvili
Georgian footballer Luka Lochoshvili has been honored with the FIFA Fair Play Award! Luka made a life-saving intervention during an Austrian Bundesliga match last year. Lochoshvili – who was playing for Wolfsberger – acted decisively after Austria Vienna’s Georg Teigi was knocked unconscious following a collision, clearing the defender’s airways after he swallowed his tongue. Thanks to Lochoshvili’s actions, Tiegi regained consciousness and he was then treated at a local hospital. He has since made a full recovery.
