The Best FIFA Awards: Dániel Zsóri wins Puskás Award for wonder goal

Daniel Zsori won prestigious Puskás Award at Best FIFA Football Awards 2019, for his bicycle kick goal against Ferencvaros in a game at Debrecen. 18-year-old Romanian player won award over Messi and Quintero. FC Barcelona captain Lionel Messi was minated for his goal against Real Betis at Estadio Benito Villamarin. Messi has never won Puskás Award but has been minated for it seven times. Juan Fernando Quintero, on or hand, was minated for his direct freekick against Racing Club.

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Daniel Zsori's winning goal

Daniel Zsori made his astonishing debut in Hungarian football in February 2019. During his league debut, Daniel delivered an overhead-kick just inside penalty area. This goal scored was in added time and his team won 2-1. While talking to a sports website, Zsori revealed that he practised award-winning bicycle kick goal plenty of times during training sessions, and copied his idol, Cristia Ronaldo. Here’s award-winning goal: 

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FIFA anunced list of ten minees in August, and football fans voted for ir three favourite players in various categories. Earlier in September, voting ended, and jury members picked winners from top three. Many star footballers attended ceremony at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala.  Best FIFA Football Awards 2019 ceremony started with a remarkable performance from Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, and later winners were anunced by FIFA officials and football legends on Monday, September 23, 2019.  

Here’s list of all winners from Best FIFA Football Awards 2019

Best men's player: Lionel Messi

Best women's player: Megan Rapie

Puskas Award best goal: Daniel Zsori

Best men's goalkeeper: Alisson Becker

Best women's goalkeeper: Sari van Veenendaal

Men's coach: Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool)

Women's coach: Jill Ellis (USA)

Fair-play award: Marcelo Bielsa

Men’s World11: Alisson; Matthijs de Ligt, Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Virgil van Dijk; Frenkie de Jong, Eden Hazard, Luka Modric; Cristia Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi

Women’s World11: Sari van Veenendaal; Lucy Bronze, Nilla Fischer, Kelley O’Hara, Wendie Renard; Julie Ertz, Amandine Henry, Rose Lavelle; Marta, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapie

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