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Alexia Putellas has been crowned the Best FIFA Women’s Player, denying England’s female representatives a clean sweep at Monday’s ceremony.
Sarina Wiegman and Mary Earps had earlier been crowned the Best FIFA Women’s Coach and the Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper respectively following England’s Euro 2022 success on home soil last year.
But Beth Mead, the Euro 2022 Player of the Tournament and Golden Boot winner, missed out to Barcelona and Spain midfielder Putellas.
Putellas, who won the Primera Division with Barcelona in 2021-22 but missed the Euros with an ACL injury, is now a two-time winner of the award after also coming out on top last year.
“If you have a dream and fight for it as hard as you can, you can achieve that dream,” Putellas said upon collecting the award. “The most important thing is to enjoy yourself along the way.”
San Diego Wave and United States forward Alex Morgan was the other candidate in the running to land the award.
Putellas, Mead and Morgan all appeared in the FIFPro Women’s World 11, although Earps missed out to Christiane Endler.
England also had Lucy Bronze, Leah Williamson and Keira Walsh in the team.
