Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski lastly acquired the respect he deserved on Monday evening, after lacking out on the Ballon d’Or.
For the second 12 months in a row, the Polish scoring machine upset Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah to earn 2021 Greatest FIFA Males’s Participant of the Yr in a web-based ceremony held in Zurich, Switzerland.
The celebrated award is introduced to the excellent male participant in males’s soccer, as decided by a global jury comprised of present managers of all males’s nationwide groups, present captains of all males’s nationwide sides, one specialist journalist from every territory represented by a nationwide staff, and followers registered on FIFA’s official web site.
With 43 objectives in 34 Bundesliga video games, Lewandowski broke the 49-year Bundesliga file for many objectives scored in a calendar 12 months. He led Bayern to the FIFA Membership World Cup title in early 2021, adopted by the German Bundesliga championship. Moreover, the 33-year-old was instrumental in Poland’s World Cup qualification marketing campaign, scoring eight objectives in eight appearances.
In the meantime, Barcelona playmaker Alexia Putellas received the Ladies’s Participant of the Yr award, defeating Chelsea’s Sam Kerr and colleague Jennifer Hermoso. After successful the Ballon d’Or in November, the 27-year-old now possesses each of soccer’s highest particular person honors.
Putellas was one of many biggest gamers on a unbelievable Barcelona staff who hammered Ladies’s Tremendous League champions Chelsea 4-0 to win the Ladies’s Champions League for the primary time and retain their home Primera Division title. She additionally holds the file for many caps for Spain and was voted UEFA Ladies’s Participant of the Yr.
