(Reuters) -Bayern Munich’s Polish striker Robert Lewandowski gained the FIFA Best Men’s Player award for 2021 with Barcelona’s Spanish midfielder Alexia Putellas profitable the FIFA Best Women’s Player prize at Monday’s ceremony.
The prolific Lewandowski gained the award for the second straight 12 months after a season wherein he beat Gerd Mueller’s 49-year outdated file of 40 targets in a single Bundesliga marketing campaign.
The 27-year-old Putellas was on the coronary heart of the Barcelona girls’s workforce which gained the Spanish league and the UEFA Champions League.
Chelsea gained each the awards for finest coach, with Thomas Tuchel profitable the boys’s award and Emma Hayes named the most effective girls’s coach.
Tuchel had guided Chelsea to the Champions League title after taking up the membership in January whereas Hayes gained the Women’s Super League, FA Cup and League Cup treble in England.
The West London membership loved additional recognition with their Senegal worldwide Edouard Mendy profitable the Best Men’s Goalkeeper award.
Chile and Olympique Lyonnais’ Christiane Endler was named The Best Women’s Goalkeeper.
The Puskas Award for finest purpose of the 12 months was gained by Argentine Erik Lamela, now with Spanish membership Sevilla, for his purpose for Tottenham Hotspur towards Arsenal.
(Reporting by Simon Evans, modifying by Pritha Sarkar)
