{"id":113798,"date":"2022-08-27T14:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T08:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=113798"},"modified":"2022-09-09T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:01:11","slug":"uefa-awards-karim-benzema-alexia-putellas-win-uefa-best-player-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/uefa-awards-karim-benzema-alexia-putellas-win-uefa-best-player-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Awards: Karim Benzema, Alexia Putellas win UEFA best player awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karim Benzema and Alexia Putellas&nbsp;were rewarded for outstanding seasons by winning the&nbsp;UEFA men\u2019s and women\u2019s player of the year prizes&nbsp;at a ceremony in&nbsp;Istanbul, Turkey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benzema had been the heavy favorite for the men\u2019s award after scoring 15 Champions League goals to lead Real Madrid to a record-extending 14th European title. Putellas won a second straight UEFA women\u2019s best player award after helping Barcelona reach the Champions League final in defense of its title. Barcelona lost to Lyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coaching awards went to the winners of the two biggest events last season:&nbsp;Carlo Ancelotti of Madrid and Sarina Wiegman,&nbsp;who led England to the&nbsp;Euro 2022 title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key points:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Benzema won from a three-player shortlist that included Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne.<\/li><li>Putellas won her vote ahead of England forward Beth Mead, who was the Euro 2022 joint top scorer with six goals, and Germany midfielder Lena Oberdorf.<\/li><li>Voting was done by coaches whose teams played in European competitions and selected journalists across Europe.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema and Alexia Putellas&nbsp;were rewarded for outstanding seasons by winning the&nbsp;UEFA men\u2019s and women\u2019s player of the year prizes&nbsp;at a ceremony in&nbsp;Istanbul, Turkey.&nbsp; Benzema had been the heavy favorite for the men\u2019s award after scoring 15 Champions League goals to lead Real Madrid to a record-extending 14th European title. Putellas won a second straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":113799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4851],"tags":[92,59,4337],"class_list":["post-113798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-august-2022","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs","tag-sports-current-affairs","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113800,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113798\/revisions\/113800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}