Best FIFA Awards 2023: England goalkeeper Mary Earps and head coach Sarina Wiegman win major honours | Football News

England boss Sarina Wiegman was named finest girls’s coach at The Best FIFA Awards 2023, whereas Lionesses star Mary Earps received the ladies’s goalkeeper award.

Wiegman took residence the most effective girls’s coach for the second successive yr and for a fourth time, having beforehand achieved so in 2017, 2020 and 2022.

The Dutchwoman took England to the World Cup closing in Australia, the place they have been crushed by Spain, having additionally received Euro 2022 on residence soil.

Chelsea head coach Emma Hayes was additionally on the shortlist together with Sweden’s Peter Gerhardsson, Jonatan Giraldez (Barcelona) and Tony Gustavsson (Australia).

Seven of Wiegman’s England squad made it into the FIFA FIFPRO Women’s World XI – goalkeeper Earps, defenders Lucy Bronze and Alex Greenwood, and Keira Walsh, Alessia Russo, Lauren James and Ella Toone.

Barcelona defender Bronze stated: “[The women’s game] is in the most effective place it has ever been. We confirmed that after the World Cup, however actually the sky is the restrict for ladies’s soccer.

“Every yr it’s larger and higher in England, Spain and all all over the world and every match will get even higher.

“We are stood here representing the World XI, but there are hundreds of thousands of women out there playing football at the highest level making the game what it is today.”

The finest girls’s participant award went to Spain’s World Cup winner Aitana Bonmati forward of compatriot Jenni Hermoso and Real Madrid’s 18-year-old Colombia ahead Linda Caicedo.

Earps wins finest goalkeeper award

Manchester United goalkeeper Earps was quickly referred to as again to the stage to gather the most effective girls’s goalkeeper award for the second yr in a row.

The 30-year-old completed forward of West Ham’s Mackenzie Arnold and Barcelona’s Catalina Coll.

“Last year I won the award, but didn’t get in the team of the year – this year I thought it might be the other way around,” she stated. “Thank you to all my coaches for England and United. I am just blown away.

“I discuss loads about the way it wasn’t the best journey right here, I took the scenic route, however wanting again now, all of it is smart.

“It made me so much more prepared for the challenges I face today, and not to take a day for granted.

“If you’re struggling, preserve going. It is rarely too late to be who you’re – 2023 confirmed we are able to change the world if we converse out in opposition to injustice, so let’s preserve doing that.”

Mary Earps 360: Man Utd and England ‘keeper’s future assessed

Earps is without doubt one of the greatest stars on the planet and has no scarcity of curiosity as she enters the final six months of her contract at Manchester United.

Arsenal made a big-money provide for her in the summertime, whereas the largest golf equipment in Europe have carefully watched the England No 1’s scenario.

Sky Sports News reporter Anton Toloui offers the lowdown from all angles on what the long run seems like for Earps.