The Best FIFA Football Awards: On Monday night, the seventh edition of The Best FIFA Football Awards took held in Paris.
Eleven prizes were available, and they were all based on performance between August 8, 2021, and December 18, 2022.
Mary Earps of Manchester United and England took up the night’s top award.
She was named FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper of the Year. Emiliano Martinez of Argentina and Aston Villa has then crowned the best men’s goalkeeper of 2022.
Sarina Wiegman of England and Lionel Scaloni of Argentina were the next to be honored.
The Best FIFA Football Awards
The Best FIFA Women’s Player: Alexia Putellas (Spain/FC Barcelona Femení)
The Best FIFA Men’s Player: Lionel Messi (Argentina/Paris Saint-Germain FC)
The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper: Mary Earps (England/Manchester United WFC)
The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper: Emiliano Martínez (Argentina/Aston Villa FC)
The Best FIFA Women’s Coach: Sarina Wiegman (England Women’s National Team)
The Best FIFA Men’s Coach: Lionel Scaloni (Argentina Men’s National Team)
The FIFA Puskás Award: Marcin Oleksy (Poland/Warta Poznań)
The FIFA Fair Play Award: Luka Lochoshvili (Georgia/Wolfsberger AC/U.S. Cremonese)
The FIFA Fan Award: Argentinian Fans
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After leading England to victory at Euro 2022, Wiegman won the Best Women’s Coach Award for the third time in her career.
Scaloni became the first non-European to receive the Best Men’s Coach Award after leading Argentina to a historic FIFA World Cup victory.
Argentina’s fans were also honoured for their contributions to Qatar 2022. They received the FIFA Fan Award.
Meanwhile, Alexia Putellas of Barcelona and Spain received the Best FIFA Women’s Player title for the second year in a row.
Predictably, Messi and Putellas were also named to the FIFPRO World 11s by their peers.
Georgian defender Luka Lochoshvili got the FIFA Fair Play Award for his role in saving an opponent’s life on the pitch.
Last year, when playing for Wolfsberger in Austria, Lochoshvili came to the help of Georg Teigl, who had been knocked unconscious.
Lochoshvili restrained Teigl’s tongue from swallowing it.
