FIFA has released the shortlists for the 2025 Pusk\u00e1s Award and the Marta Award, with Declan Rice and Lamine Yamal prominent among the men’s nominees and Marta and Mariona Caldentey highlighted on the women’s list. The winners will be announced at the 2025 The Best FIFA Football Awards.<\/p>\n
The Pusk\u00e1s Award has a history of high-profile winners. Cristiano Ronaldo was the inaugural recipient in 2009. Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107 and Mohamed Salah have also taken the prize, and the most recent winner is Alejandro Garnacho.<\/p>\n
This year Rice and Yamal stand out on the men\u2019s list. Rice earned his nomination for the second of his two incredible free kicks against Real Madrid. The midfielder curled an unstoppable strike into the top-right corner of the net in what wound up being a 3\u20130 victory for Arsenal in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Yamal is nominated for a curling effort of his own. The teenager received the ball in space against Espanyol, quickly cut inside and curled home a left-footed strike that ultimately sealed the La Liga title for Barcelona last season.<\/p>\n
The selection process for both the Pusk\u00e1s Award and the Marta Award will be determined by an equal 50% split between fan votes and those cast by FIFA Legends. That balance will decide which of the shortlisted strikes is named the standout goal of the year on the men\u2019s side and which moment earns the equivalent honour on the women\u2019s side.<\/p>\n
The shortlists again draw attention to individual moments that shaped the previous season, from decisive free kicks in the Champions League to title-sealing efforts in La Liga. Fans and FIFA Legends will now weigh in to decide which of the nominated finishes claims the 2025 prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rice and Yamal lead the 2025 Puskas nominees; Marta and Mariona head the women’s list. Voting 50\/50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1017],"tags":[1047,1246,1245],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-barcelona","tag-champions-league","tag-marta-award","tag-puskas-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}