{"id":169498,"date":"2025-01-29T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=169498"},"modified":"2025-01-29T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:32:22","slug":"the-fifa-best-awards-2024-recognizing-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-fifa-best-awards-2024-recognizing-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"The FIFA Best Awards 2024: Recognizing Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Best FIFA Football Awards 2024 were held in Doha, Qatar, on December 17, where several individuals were honored for their exceptional performances throughout the year. The event recognized the best players, coaches, and goalkeepers in both men\u2019s and women\u2019s football, as well as other prestigious awards like the FIFA Pusk\u00e1s Award and FIFA Fan Award. The awards were determined by a voting system that included national team coaches, captains, media members, and fans, all of whom contributed to crowning the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FIFA The Best Award 2024 Highlights<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The Best FIFA Men\u2019s Player<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Vinicius Jr (48 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second:<\/strong>\u00a0Rodri (43 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Third:\u00a0<\/strong>Jude Bellingham (37 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vinicius Jr claimed his first Best Men\u2019s Player award, topping the voting with strong support from fans, coaches, and players.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Best FIFA Women\u2019s Player<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Winner:<\/strong>\u00a0Aitana Bonmati (52 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second:\u00a0<\/strong>Barbra Banda (39 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Third:\u00a0<\/strong>Caroline Graham Hansen (37 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class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Winner<\/strong>: Carlo Ancelotti (26 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second:\u00a0<\/strong>Xabi Alonso (22 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Third:<\/strong>\u00a0Luis de la Fuente (11 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancelotti earned his first Best Men\u2019s Coach award for his successful career, including Real Madrid\u2019s triumphs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Best FIFA Women\u2019s Coach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Emma Hayes (23 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second:<\/strong>\u00a0Jonatan Giraldez (20 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Third:<\/strong>\u00a0Arthur Elias (13 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hayes was honored for her leadership and achievements with Chelsea FC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The FIFA Pusk\u00e1s Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Alejandro Garnacho (26 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second:<\/strong>\u00a0Yassine Benzia (22 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Third:<\/strong>\u00a0Denis Omedi (16 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Garnacho\u2019s stunning goal won him the prestigious award for the best goal of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The FIFA Marta Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Marta (22 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second:\u00a0<\/strong>Asisat Oshoala (20 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Third:\u00a0<\/strong>Sakina Karchaoui (16 points)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The award celebrated the iconic Brazilian player\u2019s remarkable contribution to football.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The FIFA Fan Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Winner:<\/strong>\u00a0Guilherme Gandra Moura<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The FIFA Fair Play Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Thiago Maia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Best FIFA Men\u2019s 11&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul 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The event recognized the best players, coaches, and goalkeepers in both men\u2019s and women\u2019s football, as well as other prestigious awards like the FIFA Pusk\u00e1s Award and FIFA Fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":169502,"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":[5356],"tags":[4925,59],"class_list":["post-169498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2024","tag-awards-honours-current-affairs","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169498","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169503,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169498\/revisions\/169503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}