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Lewandowski Wins FIFA Men’s Best Award, Beats Salah, Messi

Robert Lewandowski was the big winner at the expense of Mohamed Salah and Lionel Messi in the The FIFA Best awards season that took place at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich on Monday evening.

The other major awards — Ballon d’Or, the Globe Soccer awards and the UEFA player awards — all took place in recent months.

The men’s and women’s Player of the Year awards were handed out (Robert Lewandowski & Alexia Putellas), and the top coaches (Thomas Tuchel & Emma Hayes), best goalkeepers (Edouard Mendy & Christiane Endler) and most spectacular goal (Erik Lamela) were also recognized. In addition, the FIFPro Best XI were unveiled for men and women teams.

Details and reactions to follow.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.