New York, Oct 24 (EFE).- Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez are among the five candidates for the Landon Donovan MLS MVP award, the league announced this Thursday.
Four of the five MVP nominees are Latino since along with the Argentine and the Uruguayan (both from Inter Miami) are the Colombian Juan Camilo ‘Cucho’ Hernández (Columbus Crew) and the Brazilian Evander (Portland Timbers).
Belgian Christian Benteke (DC United) completes the list of contenders for an MVP that Argentine Luciano Acosta (Cincinnati) won last year.
Messi is the favorite for this award after an impressive campaign in which he scored 20 goals and 16 assists in just 19 games.
Suárez scored 20 goals and 9 assists in 27 games and is also nominated for the MLS contract of the year award.
Both Rosario’s genius and the Uruguayan striker were fundamental for Inter Miami to win the MLS Supporters’ Shield (the trophy for the best team in the regular season) and for the team in pink to break the league’s historical points record. .
After this fantastic season, Inter Miami is the team most represented in the finalists for the awards with six nominations.
Thus, coach Gerardo Martino (Inter Miami) aspires to the Sigi Schmid award for coach of the year along with Chris Armas (Colorado Rapids) and Wilfried Nancy (Columbus Crew)
In addition to the aforementioned Suárez, the Argentine Luca Orellano (Cincinnati) and the Brazilian Gabriel Pec (LA Galaxy) are finalists for the best hire of the year.
The Spanish Jordi Alba (Inter Miami) is competing for the defense of the year award along with Steven Moreira (Columbus Crew) and Jackson Ragen (Seattle Sounders).
On the other hand, the goalkeeper of the year award will be decided between Kristijan Kahlina (Charlotte), Hugo Lloris (Los Angeles FC) and Patrick Schulte (Columbus Crew).
Finally, the Paraguayan Diego Gómez (Inter Miami) and the Uruguayan Cristian Olivera (Los Angeles FC) aspire to the young player of the year award along with Diego Luna (Real Salt Lake), while Robin Lod (Minnesota United), the Argentine Maxi Moralez (New York City FC) and Lewis Morgan (New York Red Bulls) are the candidates for this season’s player with a spirit of improvement.
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