World Cup-winner Lionel Messi, runner-up Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland are the three finalists for the FIFA 2023 Greatest Males’s Participant award, because the world soccer introduced the finalists for The Greatest FIFA Ladies’s Participant, The Greatest FIFA Males’s Participant and FIFA Puskás Award.
Alexia Putellas, Lionel Messi, and Marcin Oleksy are the present holders of the respective awards.
Manchester Metropolis’s Norwegian striker Haaland helped his membership win the Champions League, English Premier League and FA Cup final season. Messi received it in 2022 after serving to Argentina win the World Cup. He then received the Ligue 1 title with Paris St Germain – with Mbappe – earlier than transferring to the Main League Soccer workforce Inter Miami.
Twelve gamers had been initially nominated for The Greatest FIFA Males’s Participant award, primarily based on their performances from December 19, 2022, to August 20, 2023. The three finalists have been chosen by a world jury comprising males’s nationwide workforce coaches, males’s nationwide workforce captains, soccer journalists, and followers registered on FIFA.com.
The shortlist for the Ladies’s Greatest Participant contains two 2023 World Cup champions – Aitana Bonmati and Jennifer Hermoso from Spain, who play for Barcelona and Pachuca Femenil respectively – and Colombia’s Linda Caicedo. Sixteen gamers had been initially nominated for the award by a panel of specialists, primarily based on their performances from August 1, 2022, to August 20, 2023. The three finalists had been chosen by a world jury comprising ladies’s nationwide workforce coaches, ladies’s nationwide workforce captains, soccer journalists, and followers who voted on FIFA’s official web site.
FIFA additionally introduced the three finalists for FIFA Puskás Award: Julio Enciso (Paraguay/Brighton & Hove Albion FC), Guilherme Madruga (Brazil/Botafogo Futebol Clube) and Nuno Santos (Portugal/Sporting CP). The prize is known as after legendary Hungarian striker Ferenc Puskás and was final received by Polish amputee footballer Oleksy’s bicycle kick.
A complete of 11 targets had been initially nominated for this version of the FIFA Puskás Award. From this shortlist, the three finalists have been chosen by followers who voted on FIFA’s official web site, in addition to professional panellists. Enciso’s aim was a thunderbolt right-foot strike from 25 yards. Madruga executed an outstanding overhead kick from outdoors the world, whereas Santos makes the ultimate three for his audacious left-foot rabona.
The winners will likely be introduced on January 15, 2024, in London.
