Finalists for The Best 2022 award for the best player
Leo Messi, Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappé are the finalists for The Best 2022 award given by FIFA to the person considered the best player in the world between August 8, 2021 and December 18, 2022. The Best 2022 award is delivered to Paris this coming Monday February 27th.
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Karim Benzema
Real Madrid / France
The Real Madrid captain already won the Ballon d’Or in October and is now selecting for The Best, where he is a finalist after completing the best season of his career in 2021-22 (44 goals scored) and won the Champions League, LaLiga, Supercopa de Europe, Spanish Super Cup and Club World Cup. Benzema, 35, was declared the ‘pichichi’ of LaLiga 2021-22 with 27 goals. He did not play in the World Cup due to injury, but he had a champion’s medal because France did not replace him in the squad.
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Leo Messi
PSG / Argentina
Messi achieved his great dream on December 18, 2022, the subject he has not yet surpassed in his extraordinary career: thanks to the victory over France on penalties (4-2 after a 3-3 draw), he led the team Argentina’s third World Cup in its history (after 1978 and 1986), the first in Leo’s record. This makes the former Barcelona player the strong favorite for The Best 2022. At PSG Messi, 35, won Ligue 1 and the French Super Cup.
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kylian mbappe
PSG / France
Mbappé, Messi’s teammate at PSG, did not revalidate the World Cup with the French team but was runner-up, scoring 8 goals in 7 games in the tournament, thus winning the Golden Boot. In addition, the 24-year-old French star became the first footballer to score 3 goals in the World Cup final, which did not prevent Argentina from winning it. He was ‘pichichi’ in Ligue 1 2021-22, with 28 ‘goals’. At PSG he won Ligue 1 and the French Super Cup.
Finalists for The Best 2022 award for the best player
Barcelona player Alexia Putellas, American Alex Morgan (San Diego Wave) and English Beth Mead (Arsenal) complete the podium of finalists for The Best 2022 for the best player in the world. This Monday the 27th, in Paris, the name of the winner.
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Alexia Putellas
Barcelona, Spain
Alexia Putellas, who already won The Best 2021 for the best player in the world, also won the Ballon d’Or corresponding to the 2021-22 season and the UEFA Best Player award for the same campaign after becoming the Barcelona League champion , Queen’s Cup and Spanish Super Cup, runner-up in the Champions League and top scorer in this tournament with 11 goals despite being a midfielder. Because of such achievements, the 29-year-old Alexia, who will miss the Euro Cup in England 2022 due to a serious cruciate ligament injury, was not penalized in these awards. He hopes to reappear in the latter stages of the current campaign.
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Alex Morgan
San Diego Wave / United States
The historic forward of the United States, currently in the ranks of the San Diego Wave, is the surprise of this shortlist completed by Alexia Putellas and the English Edith Mead. The speedy attacker, 33, was the National Women’s Soccer League’s leading scorer in her debut season for the San Diego Wave, with 15 goals in 17 games. Morgan scored the game-winning goal for the United States against Canada in the final of the 2022 CONCACAF World Championship, a competition in which he was named top scorer and MVP. He played 204 games with the US team.
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Beth Mead
Arsenal / England
The 27-year-old Arsenal forward, a good and dynamic player, capable of achieving amazing goals, was declared the champion of England at Euro 2022, where he was the top scorer (along with the German Alexandra Popp, both with 6 goals) .and was also chosen MVP of the tournament. Edith Mead is recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament injury and her aim is to be ready for the 2023 World Cup, which starts in July.
Finalists for The Best 2022 award for the best coach
Carlo Ancelotti, Pep Guardiola and Lionel Scaloni are the three coaches chosen to replace Thomas Tuchel, winner of The Best 2021 award for the best coach in the world after winning the 2020-21 Champions League at the helm of Chelsea, who dismissed to him on September 7, 2022.
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Carlo Ancelotti
real Madrid
In a season where there is no World Cup, The Best award for the best coach has no other owner than Ancelotti, winner in 2021-22 of the Champions League, LaLiga, the European Super Cup, the Spanish Super Cup and the Club World Cup. But Lionel Scaloni, who became the world champion of Argentina, is his great competitor.
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Pep Guardiola
City of Manchester
Pep Guardiola secured his fourth Premier at Manchester City in 2021-22 after an exciting one-on-one with Liverpool, in which he earned a point. Pep can never be left out, but everything indicates that The Best will go to Ancelotti or Scaloni.
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Lionel Scaloni
Argentina
Lionel Scaloni, the Argentina coach, is emerging as a strong favorite for The Best 2022 award for the best coach, although Carlo Ancelotti also has options. Scaloni, 34, made history on December 18 by leading the albiceleste to their third World Cup (after 1978 and 1986), the first for Leo Messi.
Finalists for The Best 2022 for the best coach
Sonia Bompastor (Lyon), Pia Sundhage (Brazil), Sarina Wiegman (England) are the three coaches chosen to replace Emma Hayes, who leads Chelsea.
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sonia bombastor
lions
The Lyon coach (whom he has coached since 2021) is the first to win the Champions League as a player and as a coach. At the age of 42, Bompastor led the said French team to win the 2021-22 Champions League against Barcelona, which is defending the title (1-3 in the final). Lyon is the record holder, having achieved this title 8 times.
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Sarah Wiegman
England
Dutch Sarina Wiegman (who already has two The Best awards for the best coach in her showcases, those in 2017 and 2020) led the English team to win Euro 2022. At the age of 53, she -only coach to win said title at the helm of two different countries: before England he achieved it with the Netherlands in 2017. In 2022 he won the UEFA Coach of the Year award.
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Pia Sundhage
Brazil
The experienced Swedish coach led Brazil to victory in the 2022 women’s Copa América, with a team that scored 20 goals in its 6 games (and conceded none) in that tournament, beating Argentina 4-0 in the knockout phase. As the United States coach, Sundhage, who is 63, won Olympic gold at the 2008 and 2012 Games and was runner-up at the 2011 World Cup. As a player, Sundhage made his debut in the Swedish senior team at just 15 years old. He was capped 146 times by his country and scored 71 goals.
Source: La Verdad
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