Bayern Munich duo Robert Lewandowski and Manuel Neuer have been nominated alongside Manchester Metropolis’s Kevin De Bruyne for the UEFA Males’s Participant of the 12 months prize for final season, European soccer’s governing physique introduced on Wednesday. The winner can be introduced — together with the UEFA Girls’s Participant of the 12 months — on October 1, when UEFA maintain the draw for this season’s Champions League group stage at their headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Lewandowski and Neuer starred as Bayern received the Champions League, beating Paris Saint-Germain 1-Zero within the closing in Lisbon in August.
Polish striker Lewandowski scored an astonishing 55 targets in 47 video games as Bayern received the treble of Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup. He top-scored within the Champions League with 15 targets.
Goalkeeper Neuer additionally performed a key function in Bayern’s triumphant marketing campaign, whereas Belgian playmaker De Bruyne scored or arrange 33 targets within the English Premier League and was nominated regardless of City ending second to Liverpool domestically, and going out of the Champions League within the quarter-finals to Lyon.
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi simply missed out on being shortlisted, coming fourth within the vote by a jury comprising the 80 coaches of the golf equipment that participated within the group phases of final season’s Champions League and Europa League, together with 55 chosen journalists, one from every of UEFA’s member associations.
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England star Lucy Bronze is a contender to win the ladies’s prize for the second yr working after serving to Lyon win the Champions League for the fifth season in a row earlier than not too long ago signing for Manchester Metropolis.
Her Lyon colleague, the France defender Wendie Renard, can also be shortlisted alongside the Danish striker Pernille More durable, who not too long ago joined Chelsea after serving to Wolfsburg get to the Champions League closing.
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