The Best FIFA Football Awards: England’s Beth Mead, Leah Williamson, Keira Walsh and Jude Bellingham make shortlist | Football News

Three of the England group which triumphed on the Women’s Euros have been shortlisted in FIFA’s annual participant awards, whereas Argentina’s World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi is the standout title on the boys’s record.

Top scorer Beth Mead, captain Leah Williamson and midfield star Keira Walsh have all made it onto the preliminary 14-strong record for The Best FIFA Women’s Player award.

Spain and Barcelona star Alexia Putellas, who received the award final 12 months, has been shortlisted once more, with Chelsea and Australia star Sam Kerr additionally on the record.

Messi’s World Cup heroics earn him a spot on the record of 14 for the very best males’s participant, alongside his worldwide team-mate Julian Alvarez of Manchester City.

England midfielder Jude Bellingham is on the record after a stellar World Cup which has made him probably the most sought-after gamers on the planet, whereas France ahead Kylian Mbappe, who scored a hat-trick in final month’s World Cup remaining however nonetheless ended up on the shedding aspect, can be nominated.

In addition to Alvarez, there are three extra present Premier League gamers on the record – his City team-mates Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland together with Liverpool’s Egyptian ahead Mohamed Salah.

Salah’s former Reds team-mate Sadio Mane, now with Bayern Munich, can be on the record. Morocco’s unimaginable run to the World Cup semi-finals is recognised with Paris Saint-Germain full-back Achraf Hakimi’s inclusion, whereas three members of Real Madrid’s Champions League-winning group – Karim Benzema, Luka Modric and Vinicius Junior – are in rivalry.

Wiegman, Hayes, Pep in line for greatest coach award

Real coach Carlo Ancelotti is one among 5 names on the very best males’s coach shortlist. He is joined by Argentina’s World Cup-winning coach Lionel Scaloni, France’s Didier Deschamps, Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and Morocco boss Walid Regragui.

England coach Sarina Wiegman is on the ladies’s coach record, alongside Chelsea’s Emma Hayes, Lyon coach Sonia Bompastor, Canada’s English coach Bev Priestman, Brazil’s Swedish coach Pia Sundhage and Germany’s Martina Voss-Tecklenburg.

Lionesses primary Mary Earps is nominated for the very best girls’s goalkeeper prize, with Premier League stars Alisson, Ederson and Emiliano Martinez within the working for the boys’s goalkeeper award.

Alessia Russo’s unimaginable back-heeled end in England’s Euros semi-final win over Sweden is among the many contenders for the FIFA Puskas Award for the 12 months’s greatest objective, with Kylian Mbappe‘s volley, which took the World Cup remaining to extra-time, and Richarlison‘s scissor kick for Brazil in opposition to Serbia within the World Cup group stage additionally included.

Voting closes on February 3, with the three finalists in every class to be introduced later that month.