FIFA The Best 2023 Awards: As it happened
FIFA The Best 2023 Awards: As it happened
Relive the live coverage of FIFA's The Best awards 2023, where the best players were crowned for their performances.
The Best 2023 LIVE: The Best' awards gala comes to an end
The end of a gala that has been quite strange in every sense of the word. When Messi's name was heard as the winner of The Best, there was silence and Henry, as there was no one representing Leo, kept it to give it to Leo or someone close to him. Argentinian star Leo Messi and playmaker Aitana Bonmati are the big winners of the night.
The Best 2023 LIVE: Aitana Bonmati named The Best women's player 2023!
Aitana Bonmati wins Best Women's Player of 2023.
"I am proud of being part of a powerful generation of women, part of changing the rules of the game, and the world," said Bonmati when she picked up 'The Best' women's player award.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023 LIVE: Leo Messi named The Best player 2023!
It's official! The Argentine star has been named the best player of 2023.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023 LIVE: The FIFA Fan Award goes to the Club Atletico Colon fan
The winner is Hugo Daniel 'Toto' Iniguez, who was caught on camera at a Colón match feeding his son a baby bottle.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023 LIVE: Guilherme Madruga, winner of the FIFA Puskas Award
The trophy for the best goal of 2023 goes to Guilherme Madruga for his overhead kick from outside the area for Botafogo against Novorizontino in the Brazilian second division.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023 LIVE: tributes to Sir Bobby Charlton, Franz Beckenbauer and Mario Zagallo
Sir Bobby Charlton, Mario Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer are being remembered in a film being played now.
The Best 2023 LIVE: Brazil wins the FIFA fair play award 2023
The Brazilian national team wins the award for its fight against racism, represented in the black jersey in the friendly against Guinea at the Santiago Bernabeu in June 2023.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023 LIVE: Ederson named The Best men's GK
Ederson is named 'The Best' FIFA Men's Goalkeeper 2023
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023 LIVE: Mary Earps named The Best women's GK
Mary Earps is named The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper 2023. The Manchester United and England goalkeeper retains the award.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023, LIVE: the best women's XI
The FIFA FIFPRO Women's Best XI is revealed: Mary Earps, Olga Carmona, Lucy Bronze, Alex Greenwood, Keira Walsh, Alessia Russo, Lauren James, Ella Toone, Aitana Bonmatí, Alex Morgan and Sam Kerr.
The Best 2023 LIVE: Sarina Wiegman named The Best women's coach 2023
The England coach wins her fourth The Best as best women's coach.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023, LIVE: the FIFA FIFFPRO Best XI
The FIFA Best XI is revealed. Manchester City are in the spotlight with six players.
Goalkeeper: Thibaut Courtois
Defence: John Stones, Kyle Walker, Ruben Dias
Midfield: Bernardo Silva, Jude Bellingham, Kevin De Bruyne
Forwards: Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi, Vinicius Jr
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023 LIVE: Pep Guardiola named The Best men's coach 2023
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is officially named the best male coach of 2023!
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023, LIVE: The Gala kicks off!
Reshmin Chowdhury and Thierry Henry, have arrived on stage. The ceremony is about to get underway.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023, LIVE: Ederson and Guardiola just arrived
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola also poses in front of the media in an elegant suit. The man from Santpedor is nominated for best coach after winning the treble with the 'sky blues'. Brazilian Ederson, nominated for The Best, has just arrived with his family and they posed for the media at the photocall.
The Best 2023, LIVE: Haaland, Messi or Mbappé?
Place your bets because in almost an hour's time, The Best awards ceremony kicks off.
The Best 2023, LIVE: Cristiano out again
Al Nassr Saudi Arabia star Cristiano Ronaldo is not among the finalists for the third consecutive time. The Portuguese has two 'The Best' awards to his name: 2016 and 2017.
The Best 2023, LIVE: Haaland won't be at the gala either
If we had previously mentioned that Messi was not going to be at the gala, 'El Chiringuito' has just informed that Erling Haaland will not attend the ceremony either. In the event of winning 'The Best', it will be his father who will collect the award.
The Best 2023, LIVE: these are the finalists and the prizes
For the best goalkeeper award, Cata Coll represents Spanish talent. She is a world champion and has every reason to have a national double with her and Aitana Bonmatí on the catwalk.
For the best goalkeeper award, it is quite likely that Thibaut Courtois will win the trophy, although he has an anterior cruciate ligament injury. It would be interesting to hear his feelings. The last time he appeared in front of the press, he did so in an interview with a local newspaper in which he harshly criticised his coach, Domenico Tedesco.
In the award for best women's coach, Jonatan Giraldez might seem to be the favourite, but Sarina Wiegman, who has even been rumoured to coach the England men's national team to the detriment of Gareth Southgate, should be kept in mind.
The Puskas award is difficult to predict, but in The Best men's football coach award, Pep Guardiola is likely to be ahead of Simone Inzaghi, whom he beat in the Champions League final, the crowning achievement of the Manchester City project. Luciano Spalletti will rival him with Napoli's Scudetto as his main argument.
In the Women's Best, it is logical that Aitana Bonmati should do the double after her Ballon d'Or. She led the Spanish national team at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Linda Caicedo is more of an emerging profile and Jenni Hermoso, while a strong performer, lagged behind her compatriot.
January 15, 2024
In The Best best player award, it seemed that the favourite was Leo Messi, but 'DSports' has reported that he will not be attending the gala in London, raising suspicions that he knows he will not be picking up the award. It would go to either Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappe with more options for the Norwegian, who won the Champions League with Manchester City.
It's getting closer to the start of the ceremony, but there's still a while to go, so why don't we take a look at the awards and their finalists?
The Best 2023, LIVE: Those are all the nominees
Take a look at all the nominees for tonight's award ceremony, as we can only have one winner from each category.
Best men's player
- Erling Haaland
- Kylian Mbappe
- Leo Messi
Best Female player
- Aitana BonmatI
- Linda Caicedo
- Jenni Hermoso
Puskas Trophy
- Julio Enciso
- Guilherme Madruga
- Nuno Santos
Best men's coach
- Pep Guardiola
- Simone Inzaghi
- Luciano Spalletti
Best women's coach
- Jonatan Giráldez
- Emma Hayes
- Sarina Wiegman
Best men's GK:
- Yassine Bono
- Thibaut Courtois
- Ederson
Best women's GK short-list
- Mackenzie Arnold
- Cata Coll
- Mary Earps.
January 15, 2024
The Best 2023, LIVE: who voted for the awards?
FIFA has released a list of some of the voters for the men's and women's awards. Their panel of experts includes Petr Cech, Didier Drogba, Brett Emerton, Rio Ferdinand, Asamoah Gyan, Kaka, Mario Kempes, Alexi Lalas, Jon Obi Mikel, Park Ji-Sung and Ivan Vicelich.
The Best Gala LIVE
The gala will be hosted by Reshmin Chowdhury. He has been presenting the awards for the last three years, in 2020, and will be joined by football legend Thierry Henry, who needs no introduction.
Good afternoon! We are now live with all the updated information about The Best awards gala. The event will take place this evening at 20:30 CET, but we can already concentrate on the preview, the list of favourites and trophies and other important aspects of these FIFA awards.
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