England’s Euros triumph was recognised with Sarina Wiegman and Mary Earps winning accolades at the Best Fifa Football Awards in Paris on Monday. Wiegman won the Best Fifa Women’s Coach Award and Earps was crowned the Best Fifa Women’s Goalkeeper. Four England players – Beth Mead, Lucy Bronze, Leah Williamson and Keira Walsh – were also named in the FIFA FIFPro World XI.
Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas took the award for best women’s player for the second straight year and Lionel Messi won best men’s player to complete a clean sweep of trophies for Argentina’s World Cup 2022 heroes. Messi said he was proud ‘to culminate [his] career with soccer’s most important trophy’.
- England’s Sarina Wiegman crowned best women’s coach at Fifa awards
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