Actual Madrid attacker Vinicius Junior received the FIFA Finest males’s participant of the 12 months award at a ceremony in Doha on Tuesday, whereas Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati picked up the ladies’s prize for the second time. The award comes two months after 24-year-old Vinicius was second within the Ballon d’Or, with Actual electing to snub the ceremony after they discovered beforehand that Manchester Metropolis midfielder Rodri was set to win the trophy. However the Brazilian was this time readily available to gather the prize in particular person as he’s in Qatar together with his membership forward of their Intercontinental Cup ultimate conflict with Mexico’s Pachuca on Wednesday.
Vinicius succeeds Lionel Messi because the FIFA Finest males’s participant after the Argentinian scooped up the final two editions of the award.
The reside wire ahead scored 24 objectives and laid on 11 assists in 39 matches throughout all competitions as he led Actual to a La Liga and Champions League double final season.
Having already wrapped up his third La Liga title in Might, Vinicius secured the second Champions League trophy of his profession as Actual beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 on June 1.
Vinicius was on the scoresheet at Wembley with a pinpoint end inside the ultimate 10 minutes to make the sport secure for his staff.
If Vinicius at instances performed second fiddle to clubmate Jude Bellingham in La Liga, he was undoubtedly the principle man for Madrid in Europe as soon as the going acquired severe.
He was the highest scorer for the Champions League winners with six objectives within the competitors, together with the strike within the ultimate and a brace in Madrid’s 4-3 combination win over Bayern Munich within the semi-finals.
He additionally scored a hat-trick in a 4-1 victory within the ultimate of the Supercopa in opposition to arch-rivals Barcelona in January.
However it was not all plain crusing final season for Vinicius as he endured a disappointing Copa America with the Brazilian nationwide staff over the summer season.
He scored two objectives in a group-stage win in opposition to Paraguay, however his facet in the end crashed out on penalties to Uruguay within the quarter-finals.
– Serial winner Bonmati –
The 26-year-old Spaniard Bonmati picked up the Finest girls’s participant award for the second 12 months working, including to the 2 Ballon d’Or trophies she already boasts.
“I am grateful, I am proud to obtain this award,” Bonmati stated through video hyperlink from Barcelona’s Olympic stadium.
Final time period, Bonmati led Barcelona to a historic continental quadruple of titles and claimed the Nations League along with her nationwide staff.
She received each trophy accessible to her in membership soccer in 2023/24 — the Spanish league, the Copa de la Reina, the Supercopa de Espana and a second-successive Ladies’s Champions League.
Bonmati scored a aim and put in a player-of-the-match efficiency as Barcelona beat Lyon 2-0 within the ultimate of the Champions League to assert their third title in 4 seasons.
Manchester United’s Argentine ahead Alejandro Garnacho received the Puskas award for the perfect aim of the 12 months for his spectacular bicycle kick in opposition to Everton within the Premier League.
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