The ten nominees for the 2012 FIFA Women’s World Player of
the Year and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football have been
announced. The winner of the two awards - currently held by Japan’s Homare Sawa
and coach Norio Sasaki - will be announced at the FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala in
Zurich on January 7th, 2013.
The following ten women (in alphabetical order)
are in contention for the title of FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year
2012: Camille Abily (France), Miho Fukumoto (Japan), Carli Lloyd (USA),
Marta (Brazil), Aya Miyama (Japan), Alex Morgan (USA), Megan Rapinoe (USA),
Homare Sawa (Japan), Christine Sinclair (Canada), Abby Wambach (USA).
The USA has the most nominees with four. Wambach,
Morgan, Rapinoe and Lloyd are all members of the gold-medal-winning team from
the London 2012 Olympics. No American has won the award since Mia Hamm won
the second of her consecutive honors in 2002. Sawa of Japan is the reigning
award-winner and is joined by two other Japanese nominees, Miyama and Fukumoto. Among other nominees, Canadian Sinclair was the top scorer at the London Olympics and French Abily led her team to a semi-final appearance. The Brazilian Marta, has won the award five times.
The following ten coaches (in alphabetical order,
first nationality and then team) are in the running for the FIFA World Coach of
the Year for Women’s Football 2012: Bruno Bini (France/France national
team), John Herdman (England/Canada national team), Patrice Lair
(France/Olympique Lyonnais), Maren Meinert (Germany/Germany U-20 national
team), Silvia Neid (Germany/Germany national team), Hope Powell
(England/England national team), Norio Sasaki (Japan/Japan national team), Pia
Sundhage (Sweden/USA national team), Steve Swanson (USA/USA U-20 national
team), Hiroshi Yoshida (Japan/Japan U-20/U-17 national teams).Source: FIFA.com, Herosport Facebook page.
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