The Best FIFA Awards: Vini Jr. beats Rodri to top honor, Bonmati wins again

The winners of the 2024 Finest FIFA Soccer Awards, the ninth version of the governing physique’s flagship awards ceremony, have been revealed Tuesday throughout a particular occasion in Doha, Qatar. Followers, nationwide workforce captains and coaches, and media members contributed to the voting for numerous honors, which acknowledge excellence within the sport between Aug. 21, 2023, and Aug. 10, 2024.

Under, theScore runs down the winners of every trophy.

Finest Males’s Participant

Vinicius Jr (Actual Madrid and Brazil)

Vinicius Junior lastly took residence a serious particular person award after lacking out on the Ballon d’Or in October. Neither Vinicius nor Actual Madrid attended the Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris after studying early on that he misplaced the vote to Manchester Metropolis’s Rodri, however the Brazilian was available Tuesday to gather the award. Vinicius helped Madrid win La Liga and the Champions League final season, scoring within the remaining in opposition to Borussia Dortmund to clinch the membership’s record-extending fifteenth European Cup. He completed the 2023-24 marketing campaign with 24 objectives in 39 appearances.

Crushed finalists: Rodri, Jude Bellingham

Finest Girls’s Participant

Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona and Spain)

Bonmati’s trophy cupboard is getting crowded. Two months after successful a second consecutive Ballon d’Or, the 26-year-old defended her title because the Finest FIFA Girls’s Participant in 2024. Bonmati powered Barcelona to a different multi-title end final season, together with a continental sweep of the Spanish league, Copa de la Reina, Supercopa de Espana, and the Girls’s Champions League.

Crushed finalists: Barbara Banda, Caroline Graham Hansen

Finest Males’s Coach

Carlo Ancelotti (Actual Madrid)

Ancelotti collected the FIFA award for the primary time after one other profitable season teaching Madrid. He turned the primary supervisor to win the Champions League 5 instances and the one one to compete in six finals after Madrid’s newest European conquest. Ancelotti is now aiming to win the thirty first trophy of his managerial profession in Wednesday’s Intercontinental Cup remaining in opposition to Mexico’s Pachuca.

Crushed finalists: Xabi Alonso, Pep Guardiola

Finest Girls’s Coach

Emma Hayes (United States)

Hayes ended her 12-year tenure with Chelsea by successful a fifth straight Girls’s Tremendous League title. She then led the U.S. to Olympic gold, finishing an unbelievable turnaround simply over two months after starting work with the nationwide workforce. The U.S. entered the event after a lot of disappointing worldwide outings, together with a last-16 exit on the 2023 Girls’s World Cup and a semifinal loss to Canada on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Crushed finalists: Jonatan Giraldez, Arthur Elias

Finest Males’s Goalkeeper

Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa and Argentina)

Martinez accomplished a full sweep of particular person honors in 2024, including Tuesday’s recognition to the Yashin Trophy he collected on the Ballon d’Or ceremony in October. It was one other banner 12 months for Martinez: The colourful Argentinian ‘keeper helped his nation defend its Copa America title, producing 5 clear sheets within the event and two essential saves within the quarterfinal shootout win over Ecuador.

Crushed finalists: Ederson, Unai Simon

Finest Girls’s Goalkeeper

Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Purple Stars and United States)

Naeher backstopped the U.S. to the gold medal with shutouts in all three knockout matches within the Olympic ladies’s soccer event. The 36-year-old made 4 stops within the remaining, together with a last-ditch effort to forestall Brazil from scoring a late equalizer. Naeher retired from worldwide responsibility shortly after her heroics in France.

Crushed finalists: Cata Coll, Mary Earps

Finest FIFA Males’s 11

Emiliano Martinez; Dani Carvajal, Antonio Rudiger, Ruben Dias, William Saliba; Jude Bellingham, Rodri, Toni Kroos; Lamine Yamal, Erling Haaland, Vinicius Junior

Finest FIFA Girls’s 11

Alyssa Naher; Lucy Bronze, Naomi Girma, Irene Paredes, Ona Batlle; Gabi Portilho, Patricia Guijarro, Lindsey Horan, Aitana Bonmati; Caroline Graham Hansen, Salma Paralluelo

Puskas Award

Alejandro Garnacho vs. Everton

Manchester United ahead Alejandro Garnacho’s overhead kick within the Premier League in November 2023 was voted the very best purpose in males’s soccer.

View each nominated purpose right here.

Marta Award

Marta vs. Jamaica

Marta’s long-range strike in Brazil’s worldwide pleasant on June 1 was voted the very best purpose in ladies’s soccer.

View each nominated purpose right here.