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The Best European Goalkeeper award is a football award given annually since 1990 to the most outstanding Goalkeeper in Europe, as voted by the UEFA magazine, in 2009 the ESM become the donor of the award.
For the 2010–11 season, the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award was replaced by the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, but the positional awards returned in 2016–17. Positional awards for players in the UEFA Women's Champions League were introduced in 2019–20.
The 1963 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Lev Yashin on 17 December 1963. [1] He was the first, and as of 2024, the only goalkeeper to win this award. He also became the first Soviet and Russian national to win the award. [2] [3]
First awarded in 2019, the Yashin Trophy is presented to the best goalkeeper of the season. The award is named after Soviet goalkeeper and 1963 Ballon d'Or winner Lev Yashin. [46] In 2021, France Football gave Robert Lewandowski the Striker of the Year award for scoring the most goals the previous season. [47]
Belgian goalkeeper Jean-Marie Pfaff was the first ever winner of the award, in 1987. The IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper is a football award given annually since 1987 to the best goalkeeper of the year as voted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The votes are cast by IFFHS's editorial staff as well as ...
The honour had been bestowed upon first-class European football stars since the 1997–98 season, when it was awarded to Ronaldo, then of Internazionale. Since the 2010–11 season, it has been replaced by the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award.
Beyond being record-breaking, the Albanian goal was a big underdog blow to the Italians. For context, in the current FIFA rankings, Italy is ranked ninth, while Albania is 66th.
The award, created in 2011 by UEFA in partnership with European Sports Media (ESM) group, was initially aimed at reviving the European Footballer of the Year Award (Ballon d'Or), [2] [3] which was merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year Award in 2010 to become the FIFA Ballon d'Or. [4] It also replaced the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year ...