Ronaldo, Modric, Salah on UEFA best player award shortlist
●Awards ceremony to be held in Monaco on 30 August
UEFA yesterday announced the names of the nominees shortlisted for the 2017/18 UEFA Men’s and Women’s Player of the Year Awards.
Cristiano Ronaldo is on a threeman shortlist to be named the best player in Europe for last season.
Ronaldo will be up against Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah for the award next week at the Champions League draw ceremony in Monaco.
For the men’s award, the shortlist of three players was selected by a jury composed of 80 coaches of the clubs which participated in the group stages of the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, together with 55 journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) group, representing each of UEFA’s member associations.
The coaches and journalists were requested to select a shortlist of three players by allocating respectively five points, three points and one point to each of them. The final result was based on the total number of votes cast by the coaches and the journalists. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own team.
The three players shortlisted received the most points overall following the conclusion of the voting.
The rest of the top ten
4 Antoine Griezmann (Atlético & France) – 72 points
5 Lionel Messi (Barcelona & Argentina) – 55 points
6 Kylian Mbappé France) – 43 points
7 Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City & Belgium) – 28 points
8 Raphaël Varane (Real Madrid & France) – 23 points
9 Eden Hazard (Chelsea & Belgium) – 15 points
10 Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid & Spain) – 12 points (Paris &
The other award shortlists
Becker, Gianluigi Keylor Navas
Alisson Buffon,
Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Raphaël Varane
Kevin De Bruyne, Toni Kroos, Luka Modrić
Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mohamed Salah
Women’s Player of the Year: Pernille Harder, Ada Hegerberg, Amandine Henry
Europa League Player of the Season: Diego Godín, Antoine Griezmann, Dimitri Payet
WOMEN’S AWARD
vote for players from their own team.
The three players who received the most points overall from this voting procedure, in alphabetical order, are: Pernille Harder (Denmark – VfL Wolfsburg), Ada Hegerberg (Norway – Olympique Lyonnais), Amandine Henry (France – Olympique Lyonnais).
The rest of the top ten
4 Dzsenifer Marozsán (Lyon & Germany) – 32 points
5 Lucy Bronze (Lyon & England) – 20 points
6 Lieke Martens (Barcelona & Netherlands) – 17 points
7 Wendie Renard (Lyon & France) – 16 points
8 Fran Kirby (Chelsea & England) – 15 points
9 Eugénie Le Sommer (Lyon & France) – 13 points
10 Shanice van de Sanden (Lyon & Netherlands) – 7 points
UEFA goal of the season vote: Lucy Bronze
Four Champions League positional awards
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