FIFA Finest awards: Rodri, Vinícius Jr. lead nominees
The FIFA Finest males’s participant award for 2024 may very well be one other contest between Rodri and Vinícius Júnior after the pair had been included on the shortlist for the prize on Thursday.
In the meantime, Barcelona‘s Aitana Bonmatí leads the shortlist of nominees for the ladies’s award.
Votes for one of the best gamers, coaches, and goalkeepers will likely be weighed equally between followers, present nationwide staff captains and media representatives.
A date for the awards present has not been introduced but.
Vinícius and Real Madrid boycotted the Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris in October after studying that Manchester City‘s Spanish midfielder Rodri would win forward of the Brazil worldwide.
Rodri may add the FIFA award to his résumé after serving to Metropolis to win a file fourth consecutive Premier League title in addition to main Spain to Euro 2024, the place he was named the match’s finest participant.
In the meantime, Vinícius is one his predominant rivals for the prize. The ahead scored 24 targets and supplied 11 assists in all competitions final season for LaLiga champions Madrid, together with his staff’s second aim of their Champions League last win in opposition to Borussia Dortmund.
He’s considered one of six Madrid gamers within the working for FIFA’s males’s award, with recently-retired Toni Kroos and summer-signing Kylian Mbappé additionally shortlisted.
Rodri’s Manchester Metropolis teammate Erling Haaland can be within the working. So too is Inter Miami captain Lionel Messi, who received the award final 12 months, has additionally made the minimize.
Messi, 37, captained Argentina on the 2024 Copa América and led them to title.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who not too long ago surpassed 900 profession targets, was unnoticed of the FIFA Finest males’s choice.
The Portugal captain, who scored a Saudi Pro League file 35 targets final season for Al Nassr, is on the shortlist for finest attacker.
On the ladies’s facet, Bonmatí is well-placed to win her second straight FIFA Finest award after additionally successful one other Ballon d’Or Féminin.
In October, she beat out Barça teammate Caroline Graham Hansen, who can be nominated for the FIFA award.
5 gamers within the NWSL have been nominated, together with Zambia ahead Barbra Banda who led Orlando Pride to the league title final weekend.
FIFA Finest males’s award nominees:
Dani Carvajal (Spain), Actual Madrid
Erling Haaland (Norway), Manchester Metropolis
Federico Valverde (Uruguay), Actual Madrid
Florian Wirtz (Germany), Bayer Leverkusen
Jude Bellingham (England), Actual Madrid
Kylian Mbappé (France), Paris Saint Germain/Actual Madrid
Lamine Yamal (Spain), Barcelona
Lionel Messi (Argentina), Inter Miami
Rodri (Spain), Manchester Metropolis
Toni Kroos (Germany), Actual Madrid (now retired)
Vinícius Junior (Brazil), Actual Madrid
FIFA Finest girls’s award nominees:
Aitana Bonmatí (Spain), Barcelona
Barbra Banda (Zambia), Shanghai Shengli/Orlando Delight
Caroline Graham Hansen (Norway), Barcelona
Keira Walsh (England), Barcelona
Khadija Shaw (Jamaica), Manchester Metropolis
Lauren Hemp (England), Manchester Metropolis
Lindsey Horan (United States), Lyon
Lucy Bronze (England), Barcelona/Chelsea
Mallory Swanson (United States), Chicago Purple Stars
Mariona Caldentey (Spain), Barcelona/Arsenal
Naomi Girma (United States), San Diego Wave
Ona Batlle (Spain), Barcelona
Salma Paralluelo (Spain), Barcelona
Sophia Smith (United States), Portland Thorns
Tabitha Chawinga (Malawi), Paris Saint Germain/Lyon
Trinity Rodman (United States), Washington Spirit
