Nigeria Coach Joins Ronaldo, Messi In FIFA World Best Shortlist

Former Super Falcons Captain, Florence Omagbemi has been nominated for the Best FIFA Women’s Coach of the Year Award.

Omagbemi coached Nigeria to an unprecedented 8th African title with a 1-0 victory over host Cameroon last December but was later dropped by the Nigeria Football Federation.

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Other names in the category of the shortlist are Sarina Wiegman who won the European Women’s Championship with the Netherlands, Germany’s Ralf Kellermann, Olivier Echouafni and Gerard Precheur both from France, Dominik Thalhammer of Austria and Barcelona’s women’s team coach Xavi Llorens.

The winner of The Best FIFA Women’s Coach 2017 award, will be chosen by a process involving the four main stakeholders involved in football: national team coaches, captains, selected media and the fans.

Voting starts on Monday 21 August and closes on 7 September with the women’s awards taking the period 20 November 2016 to 6 August 2017 inclusive into account.

The final lists of three nominees for the men’s and women’s player and coach categories – as well as for the FIFA Puskás Award, the FIFA Fan Award and the brand new The Best FIFA Goalkeeper Award – will be announced in mid-September.

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The Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony will hold on Monday 23 October in London, where all winners will be presented with their awards.

The full list of the nominees in their different categories:

The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2017:

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund and Gabon)

Leonardo Bonucci (AC Milan and Italy)

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Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus and Italy)

Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid and Spain)

Paulo Dybala (Juventus and Argentina)

Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid and France)

Eden Hazard (Chelsea and Belgium)

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (former Manchester United and Sweden)

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Harry Kane (Tottenham and England)

Andres Iniesta (Barcelona and Spain)

N’Golo Kante (Chelsea and France)

Toni Kroos (Real Madrid and Germany)

Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich and Poland)

Marcelo (Real Madrid and Brazil)

Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina)

Luka Modric (Real Madrid and Croatia)

Keylor Navas (Real Madrid and Costa Rica)

Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich and Germany)

Neymar (Barcelona and Brazil)

Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid and Spain)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Portugal)

Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal and Chile)

Luis Suarez (Barcelona and Uruguay)

Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich and Chile)

 

The Best FIFA Men’s Coach 2017:

Massimiliano Allegri (Juventus)

Carlo Ancelotti (Bayern Munich)

Antonio Conte (Chelsea)

Luis Enrique (Barcelona)

Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)

Leonardo Jardim (Monaco)

Joachim Low (Germany)

Jose Mourinho (Manchester United)

Mauricio Pochettino (Tottenham Hotspur)

Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid)

Tite (Brazil)

Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)

 

The Best Fifa Women’s Player 2017:

Lucy Bronze (Manchester City and England)

Deyna Castellanos (Santa Clarita Blue Heat and Venezuela)

Pernille Harder (Wolfsburg and Denmark)

Samantha Kerr (Sky Blue FC and Australia)

Carli Lloyd (Houston Dash and USA)

Dzsenifer Marozsan (Lyon and Germany)

Lieke Martens (Barcelona and Netherlands)

Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal and Netherlands)

Wendie Renard (Lyon and France)

Jodie Taylor (Arsenal and England)

 

The Best FIFA Women’s Coach 2017:

Olivier Echouafni (France)

Emma Hayes (Chelsea Ladies)

Ralf Kellermann (VfL Wolfsburg)

Xavi Llorens (FC Barcelona)

Nils Nielsen (Denmark)

Florence Omagbemi (Nigeria)

Gerard Precheur (Lyon)

Dominik Thalhammer (Austria)

Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands)

Hwang Yong-bong (North Korea)

 

 

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