Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) and Edouard Mendy (Chelsea) are among the players nominated Monday for the Fifa The Best awards.
The two African stars find, within this preselection, the essentials Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, spent this summer under the colors of Manchester United and PSG.
With 31 goals in 44 matches over the calendar year, Mo Salah is a serious competitor for Robert Lewandowski (Bayern), Erling Haaland (Dortmund), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) or Kylian Mbappé (PSG).
Winner of the Champions League, Edouard Mendy he competes in the “best goalkeepers” category. He will face him Alisson Becker (Liverpool), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan and PSG), Manuel Neuer (Bayern) and Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester).
The winners will be chosen by an online vote of “football fans”, until December 10 at midnight.
The three finalists in each category will be announced “early January 2022” and the award ceremony is scheduled for January 17 in Zurich.
The Golden Boys from Nigeria
The Italian sports daily Tuttosport awarded him this Monday its Golden Boy trophy, rewarding the best youngster under 21 playing in Europe. Spanish Pedri (Barcelona) left nothing but crumbs for their rivals. The vote of specialized journalists places Barcelona’s last jewel very far ahead of the Englishman with Kenyan origins, Jude Bellingham (Dortmund) and the German-Nigerian from Bayern, Jamal Musiala.
Another German international with Nigerian ancestry was voted in favor of the Internet users’ vote, Karim Adeyemi. The Red Bull Salzburg striker remains on 3 goals for his first 4 appearances in the Champions League.
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