Three of Germany’s Olympic gold-medal winning side have made the shortlist for “The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2016”. Dzsenifer Marozsan (Olympique Lyonnais), Sara Däbritz and Melanie Behringer (both of FC Bayern München) were chosen by an expert FIFA commission and placed on a ten-player shortlist. Last year’s winner, Carli Lloyd (Houston Dash), is once again up for the award. Germany players Birgit Prinz (2003 to 2005), Nadine Angerer (2013) and Nadine Keßler (2014) have all previously won the vote.
The candidates chosen are the players who received at least 50% of the votes of all national team captains and head coaches and who were also nominated by a select group of around 200 media representatives. The 2016 awards (World Footballer of the Year, Women’s World Player of the Year, FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s football, FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s football) will be announced on 9th January 2017 in Zürich. On 2nd December, FIFA will announce which three players from each of the preliminary lists announced this week are in the shortlist for each of the four categories.
The ten-woman list of candidates for FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year is as follows: Melanie Behringer (Bayern München), Sara Däbritz (Bayern München), Dzsenifer Marozsan (Olympique Lyon), Camille Abily (France/ Olympique Lyon), Amandine Henry (France, Portland Thorns), Saki Kumagai (Japan/Olympique Lyon), Carli Lloyd (USA/ Houston Dash), Marta (Brazil/ FC Rosengård), Lotta Schelin (Sweden/ FC Rosengård), Christine Sinclair (Canada/ Portland Thorns).
Three of Germany’s Olympic gold-medal winning side have made the shortlist for “The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2016”. Dzsenifer Marozsan (Olympique Lyonnais), Sara Däbritz and Melanie Behringer (both of FC Bayern München) were chosen by an expert FIFA commission and placed on a ten-player shortlist. Last year’s winner, Carli Lloyd (Houston Dash), is once again up for the award. Germany players Birgit Prinz (2003 to 2005), Nadine Angerer (2013) and Nadine Keßler (2014) have all previously won the vote.
The candidates chosen are the players who received at least 50% of the votes of all national team captains and head coaches and who were also nominated by a select group of around 200 media representatives. The 2016 awards (World Footballer of the Year, Women’s World Player of the Year, FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s football, FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s football) will be announced on 9th January 2017 in Zürich. On 2nd December, FIFA will announce which three players from each of the preliminary lists announced this week are in the shortlist for each of the four categories.
The ten-woman list of candidates for FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year is as follows: Melanie Behringer (Bayern München), Sara Däbritz (Bayern München), Dzsenifer Marozsan (Olympique Lyon), Camille Abily (France/ Olympique Lyon), Amandine Henry (France, Portland Thorns), Saki Kumagai (Japan/Olympique Lyon), Carli Lloyd (USA/ Houston Dash), Marta (Brazil/ FC Rosengård), Lotta Schelin (Sweden/ FC Rosengård), Christine Sinclair (Canada/ Portland Thorns).
