Tikteknu: clip summarizing today's events in sports, 10.2 (Sport1)
FIFA will announce its player of the year on February 27, and this evening (Friday) it announced the three finalists. Befitting a World Cup year, the organizer of the World Cup included in the final list the two biggest stars of the tournament in Qatar, world champion Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe, When the trio is completed by Karim Benzema, who led Real Madrid to win the Champions League and the Spanish Championship and on the way knocked out Messi and Mbappe's Paris Saint-Germain from the Champions League already in the round of 16.
The original list published about a month ago included 11 other candidates, which were: Julian Albers, C Wood Bellingham, Kevin de Brauna, Arling Holland, Ashraf Hakimi, Robert Lewandowski, Sadio Mane, Luka Modric, Neymar, Mohamed Salah and Vinicius.
Today, FIFA also announced the three candidates for the title of player of the year, and they are the American Alex Morgan, Alexia Potias from Spain and Beth Mead from England.
Yesterday, the three final candidates for the title of coach of the year were announced, where the Argentina national team and Real Madrid are also in the spotlight. Lottie from the Blancos is nominated alongside Pep Guardiola, who won the English Championship with Manchester City.
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Lionel Messi
Kylian Mbappe
Karim Benzema