Linda Caicedo, middle, of Spain’s Actual Madrid controls the ball throughout a girls’s pleasant soccer match towards Mexico’s America at Azteca stadium in Mexico Metropolis, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. Credit score: AP/Elizabeth Ruiz Ruiz
ZURICH — Targets scored by Linda Caicedo, Sam Kerr and Bia Zaneratto on the Ladies’s World Cup have been amongst 11 nominated by FIFA on Friday for the annual Puskas Award.
Voting opened on FIFA’s web site for followers worldwide to select their high three objectives scored in a qualifying interval because the males’s World Cup ended final December till the top of the Ladies’s World Cup on Aug. 20.
Caicedo’s purpose was scored for Colombia towards Germany in a group-stage recreation, Kerr’s was in Australia’s 3-1 semifinal loss to England, and Zaneratto scored for Brazil towards Panama of their group.
Nominees additionally embrace a volleyed purpose by Iván Morante for Ibiza within the Spanish second division through which he touched the ball 4 occasions with out it hitting the turf.
Paraguay teenager Julio Enciso scored for Brighton towards Premier League champion Manchester Metropolis with a long-range shot to complete a sequence of crew passes that went up and down the sector twice.
Nuno Santos scored for Sporting Lisbon with a “rabona” flick much like the 2021 Puskas Award winner by Erik Lamela for Tottenham towards Arsenal.
Voting closes on Oct. 10 with equal weight given to the worldwide fan ballot and the alternatives of a FIFA-picked panel of former gamers, the world soccer physique mentioned.
FIFA has but to announce a date and venue for the gala ceremony of its annual Greatest Awards.
