World Cup winner Martinez in line for FIFA most beneficial keeper award

World Cup winner Emiliano Martinez, Yassine Bounou of Morocco and Belgium’s Thibaut Courtois have been nominated on Wednesday for the prime goalkeeping prize on the FIFA Superior awards.
Martinez shone on the World Cup, taking part in a starring position within the penalty shootout as his kingdom defeated France. He additionally, then again, courted controversy by making an obscene gesture in the time of the trophy ceremony when he acquired his prize for the most beneficial goalkeeper on the event.

Bounou featured for a defensively suggest Morocco as they grew to become the primary African kingdom to achieve the semi-finals of a World Cup. Belgium might had endured a poor World Cup the place they have been eradicated within the group stage however Courtois had already been certainly one of the architects of substantial Madrid’s 14th Champions compact triumph.

Within the adult females’s classification, the three goalkeepers nominated have been Germany’s Ann-Katrin Berger, Mary Earps of England and Chile’s Christiane Endler.

The finalists for the most beneficial female and male participant awards, as nicely because the Puskas award for the most beneficial aim, will probably be introduced on Friday. Nominees for most beneficial coach will probably be revealed on Thursday.

The FIFA awards ceremony will happen in Paris on February 27.