FIFA Best Women’s Player of The Year: Final 3 nominations to vie for the FIFA Women’s player of the year award ahead of the ceremony tonight.
FIFA will announce the winners of the annual prestigious awards, as the nominations are out since long, and tonight all the categories will be felicitated.
Amidst all of this, Women’s football has received folds of popularity in recent years and since it was the World cup year, the battle for the player of the year is even more intense.
Thus, FIFA has ended up with final three names, among whom, one would be crowned as the FIFA Best Women player of the year 2019 tonight.
The three nominated players, who will vie for the title are: Megan Rapinoe, Lucy Bronze and Alex Morgan. Two of the final three nominees are world cup winners, whereas Lucy Bronze was in the English team, which lost the final.
Thus, it will be a tough choice to pick one out of the three finalists but we will discuss the achievements of the three players in last one year to give a heads up before the ceremony for the best player award.
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1. Alex Morgan
The USA International player was crucial for her country’s success at the grandest stage. Even more, she was vital in winning the treble with Lyon, making her an unstoppable force last season.
Furthermore, the player even won the Silver boot in Women’s world cup after her influential performances to make USA win the title this summer.
It did not stop here and she even went onto win the Player of the year award at the CONACACAF awards this year, and ultimately claiming her nomination.
2. Megan Rapinoe
The phenomenal Rapinoe makes it into the nominations, and what a year she had, be in on the field or off the field. The 34-year-old Rapinoe influenced whole USA team to win the World Cup, and for her performances, she was awarded the golden ball.
If golden ball was not enough, she even won the golden boot award in the recent World Cup tournament ultimately making her case for the player of the year award.
At club level, Rapinoe helped her club Reign FC into NWSL play-offs, making her year a decorated one.
3. Lucy Bronze
The English International also had a great season and is totally on the par with her counterparts in this award ceremony. Bronze played with Morgan at club level and won the treble with Lyon.
Additionally, she had a phenomenal world cup performance with England and ended up as runners up in the tournament after losing out to USA in final.
For her performance at the world cup, Bronze won the silver ball award, which makes her worthy for the final three nomination.
All three nominees are at level to win this award, and any of the three can claim it tonight.
