Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane advance an account of six England players nominated for the men’s Ballon d’Or while the Lionesses leash Lucy Bronze, Lauren James and Lauren Hemp were shortlisted for the women’s award.
But the eight-time Ballon d’Or champ Lionel Messi, who aerial the men’s approval aftermost year, was larboard off the account forth with his longstanding battling Cristiano Ronaldo for the aboriginal time back 2003.
Shortlists for the corresponding awards were apparent on Wednesday night by France Football, with the winners to be appear at a commemoration in Paris on 28 October.
Bellingham was nominated for the award-winning afterwards a superb admission attack with Real Madrid was followed by him allowance England to ability the Euro 2024 final. The 21-year-old is abutting on a 30-player account by his compatriots Declan Rice, Cole Palmer, Phil Foden, Bacayo Saka and Kane, who denticulate 44 goals in his admission division with Bayern Munich.
Real Madrid’s Vinícius Júnior and the Manchester City midfielder Rodri are the aboriginal favorites to win the award. Spain, the Euro 2024 winners, accomplish up an ample block of those nominated, with Rodri abutting by the boyish brilliant Lamine Yamal, Athletic Bilbao’s Nico Williams, the Real Madrid captain Dani Carvajal, the new Barcelona signing Dani Olmo and the Bayer Leverkusen left-back Alejandro Grimaldo.
Kylian Mbappé is additionally listed, while there is affluence of Premier League absorption with the Arsenal duo William Saliba and Martin Ødegaard abutting by the Manchester City rivals Rúben Dias and Erling Haaland.
The Aston Villa and Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez afresh makes the shortlist, while the London-born Ademola Lokman was additionally nominated afterwards he aggressive Atalanta to Europa League celebrity in May.
A first-time champ is affirmed as there was no abode for either Messi or Ronaldo, while Karim Benzema and Luka Modric – the alone added antecedent recipients still arena – were additionally larboard off the shortlist.
The Lionesses leash Bronze, James and Hemp were shortlisted for the women’s approval afterwards accomplished seasons with Barcelona, Chelsea and Manchester City respectively. The Manchester City advanced Khadija Shaw was additionally on the 30-player account afterwards a arch attack forth with her assistant Yui Hasegawa. The Arsenal summer signing Mariona Cardentey and the Chelsea brace Stoeke Nuske and Mayra Ramírez were additionally nominated.
The Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonati will be up for the award-winning afterwards she won the approval aftermost year, as will her club colleague, the backstab champ Alexia Patellas, while Ada Hagelberg, who accustomed the bays in 2018, additionally fabricated the shortlist.
The new USA women’s aggregation manager, Emma Hayes, faces antagonism for the women’s drillmaster of the year approval from England’s Sarina Wiegman and Hayes’s Chelsea almsman Sonia Bom pastor.
The Manchester United duo Kobie Maino and Alejandro Garnacha were nominated for the Kopa Trophy, which is awarded to the best men’s adolescent amateur of the year. Bellingham won the approval in 2023, but Maino faces antagonism from Spain’s Euro 2024 champ Yamal and Savino, who abutting Manchester City this summer.
Martínez was afresh shortlisted for the Yacine Trophy, which he won aftermost year, afterwards he followed up an accomplished club division with an acknowledged Copa América defense.
The -to-be Liverpool goalkeeper Giorgi Amarshila, currently of Valencia, is additionally nominated, but the Premier League aureate cuff champ David Raya was snubbed.
Pep Guardiola was put advanced for men’s drillmaster of the year afterwards addition Premier League appellation with Manchester City and a beginning Club World Cup triumph. Guardiola was abutting on the account by the Spain administrator Luis De la Fuente, Xabi Alonso of Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid’s Carlo Ancelotti.
