Ancelotti Vinícius Jr and Bonmatí the best of 2024

Ancelotti Vinícius Jr and Bonmatí the best of 2024
Ancelotti Vinícius Jr and Bonmatí the best of 2024

At The Best FIFA Awards 2024 Carlo Ancelotti, Vinícius Jr and Aitana Bonmatí were awarded as best coach, player and player

DOHA – Few surprises at the awards ceremony The Best FIFA Football Awards 2024the award for the best performers in world football in the calendar year. Anyone could vote via the FIFA website to which the preferences of the captains and coaches of all the men’s and women’s national teams and media representatives were added.

New this year were the fans’ vote too best 11 male and female and from Martha Award for the player who scored the most goals of the year. No Italians or footballers who play in Italy among the winners. Exception made for Carlo Ancelottibest coach of the year.

Best female and male player

No doubt about who would be voted for The Best FIFA Women’s Player. At this moment Aitana Bonmatí she is definitely the strongest footballer in the world. The Barcelona player first led her national team to win the World Cup 2023 and the Nations Leagueand then won everything with his Club.

Second consecutive victory for the twenty-six-year-old midfielder, adding to her brace in Golden Ball. The Catalan declared her award as follows:

I am grateful to receive this award. As I always say, this is a team sport. It was a great year, very difficult to repeat. I am grateful to the people who help me improve every day, from the club to my teammates who always push me. It’s a pleasure to be here again and to be able to aim even higher, for team titles, which are what also make you win individually“.

After the highly contested second place at the Ballon d’Or, he is finally rejoicing Vinícius Junior. A crazy year for the Brazilian, scorer of the second goal in the victorious Champions League final which brought the Real Madrid of Ancelotti to win the competition for the fifteenth time.

24 goals in 39 appearances last season, enriched by one Ligathe Spanish Super Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. Added to these are also the quarter-finals in America’s Cup with Brazil.

The twenty-four year old Brazilian then commented on the award as follows:

I don’t even know where to start. It was so far away that it seemed impossible to get here. I was a kid playing football barefoot on the streets of São Gonçalo, close to poverty and crime. Coming here is something very important for me. I do it for many children who think that everything is impossible and who think they can’t get this far.

I have to thank everyone who voted for me, all the players, coaches, journalists and my fans. I can’t forget to thank my family, who gave up living their dream for mine. I want to thank the president [della FIFA, Gianni Infantino che lo ha premiato], Ancelotti and the staff who helped me get this far and made me believe that I could make a difference and do great things with them“.

Best coach and trainer

After second place two years ago this time it is Carlo Ancelotti to win the award as The Best FIFA Men’s Coach. A deserved award with Real Madrid winning almost every competition they entered last year.

The Merengues coach commented as follows: “I am truly honored to receive this award. I started as a professional player in 1976, 48 years in football, which has given me and is giving me many emotions. Most of the time positive, sometimes negative. But emotion is the only reason why after 48 years I still feel so alive“.

Il The Best FIFA Women’s Coach 2024 instead goes to Emma Hayes. The English coach has left the leadership of Chelsea after 12 years, finishing with the title and then moving on to the bench of the United States with which he won theOlympic gold in 2024.

It’s an incredible recognition, which I never take for granted. It’s been an amazing year, so I feel really honored and privileged to receive this award.”

Best goalkeeper

The title of The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper goes to “Draw” Emiliano Martínez. The Aston Villa and Argentina goalkeeper receives the award for the second time after the triumph in 2022. The victory of the 2024 Copa América is fundamental.

The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper instead goes to Alyssa Naheralready ranked third in 2020. The American led her national team to victory in Paris 2024especially thanks to his penalty saves in the semi-final against La Germania. With the stars and stripes jersey she was also the protagonist of the first victory in Concacaf W Gold Cupnot to mention the play-offs reached with the Chicago Red Stars in US National Women’s Soccer League.

The American thanked everyone via a video message:

I am so excited and incredibly honored to have been named FIFA’s Best Women’s Goalkeeper. It’s been an incredibly special season and all credit goes to my teammates for all the work they put in on the pitch throughout the season“.

The best goal

The novelty this year is the diversification of the prize FIFA Puskás with the addition of the new prize FIFA Marta for the footballer who scored the best goal of last season. The votes in this case were divided equally between the fans and a jury of FIFA Legends.

The Brazilian striker won it thanks to his 119th and last goal with the green and gold shirt against Jamaica on June 1, 2024.

I’m very happy with this result, to compete against so many great players, we scored some fantastic goals. It was also a wonderful season. But I’m even happier to receive an award that bears my name; this is undoubtedly the greatest honor“.

The FIFA Puskás Award instead went to Alejandro Garnacho of Manchester United thanks to the stunning overhead kick against Everton in the Premier League in November 2023.

I am very proud to have won this award; It’s a proud moment for me and my family. It was a great achievement; I worked on it so many times in training, but it was also a great team action, so it would be impossible for me to be here without my teammates“.

The other prizes

The FIFA Fan Award, based entirely on votes from registered users of FIFA.com, went to Guilherme Gandra Moura. A huge fan of Vasco da Gama, the young Brazilian suffers from a rare genetic disease known as epidermolysis bollosa. The video of his meeting with his mother after 16 days of falling ill with pneumonia has gone viral. The then leading player of Vasco da Gama was fundamental to his recovery, Gabriel Pec. After leaving hospital he was chosen as the mascot for a match in August 2023.

The FIFA Fair Play Award, assigned by a jury of experts, went to Thiago Maia of Internacional for its efforts in helping people who suffered in the Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil, hit by devastating floods between late April and early May 2024.

The Best 11

The other novelty of this edition of The Best FIFA Football Awards 2024 was the possibility for fans to participate (equal to the expert jury) in voting for the The Best FIFA Men’s 11 e The Best FIFA Women’s 11 choosing from a list of 77 candidates for each formation.

Once again, Spanish football reigns supreme with seven players from the Barcelona female and five of Real Madrid in the men’s plus the Golden Ball Rodri of Manchester City and Lamine Yamal also from Barcelona.

The Best FIFA Women’s 11 2024: Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars/USA), Irene Paredes (Barcelona/Spain), Ona Batlle (Barcelona/Spain), Lucy Bronze (Barcelona and Chelsea/England), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave/USA), Aitana Bonmatí (Barcelona /Spain), Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyonnais/USA), Gabi Portilho (Corinthians/Brazil), Patri Guijarro (Barcelona/Spain), Caroline Graham Hansen (Barcelona/Norway), Salma Paralluelo (Barcelona/Spain)

The Best FIFA Men’s 11 2024: Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa/Argentina), Rúben Dias (Manchester City/Portugal), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid/Spain), Antonio Rüdiger (Real Madrid/Germany), William Saliba (Arsenal/), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid/ England), Rodri (Manchester City/Spain), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid/Germany), Erling Haaland (Manchester City/Norway), Lamine Yamal (Barcelona/Spain), Vinícius Junior (Real Madrid/Brazil)

I voters

You can find a breakdown of the voting results below, including each candidate’s point totals and a full list of how national team captains and coaches from around the world, as well as media representatives, voted:

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