Best FIFA Awards 2023: England goalkeeper Mary Earps and head coach Sarina Wiegman win major honours
England duo Sarina Wiegman and Mary Earps win major honours at The Best FIFA Awards 2023; Wiegman named named best women’s coach while Manchester United's Earps collects best women's goalkeeper award; Spain’s World Cup winner Aitana Bonmati wins best women’s player award
Tuesday 16 January 2024 07:19, UK
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England boss Sarina Wiegman was named best women’s coach at The Best FIFA Awards 2023, while Lionesses star Mary Earps won the women’s goalkeeper award.
Wiegman took home the best women's coach for the second successive year and for a fourth time, having previously done so in 2017, 2020 and 2022.
The Dutchwoman took England to the World Cup final in Australia, where they were beaten by Spain, having also won Euro 2022 on home soil.
Chelsea head coach Emma Hayes was also on the shortlist along with Sweden's Peter Gerhardsson, Jonatan Giraldez (Barcelona) and Tony Gustavsson (Australia).
Seven of Wiegman's England squad made it into the FIFA FIFPRO Women's World XI — goalkeeper Earps, defenders Lucy Bronze and Alex Greenwood, and Keira Walsh, Alessia Russo, Lauren James and Ella Toone.
Barcelona defender Bronze said: "[The women's game] is in the best place it has ever been. We showed that after the World Cup, but really the sky is the limit for women's football.
«Every year it is bigger and better in England, Spain and all around the world and each tournament gets even better.
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»We are stood here representing the World XI, but there are hundreds of thousands of women out there playing football at the highest level making the game what it is today."
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