{"id":755084,"date":"2022-01-18T10:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/twitter-users-celebrate-senegals-mendy-for-wining-best-fifa-goalie-award\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:26:14","slug":"twitter-users-celebrate-senegals-mendy-for-wining-best-fifa-goalie-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/twitter-users-celebrate-senegals-mendy-for-wining-best-fifa-goalie-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter users celebrate Senegal&#8217;s Mendy for wining Best FIFA goalie award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/76756430.295.jpg\" alt=\"Edouard Mendy, Senegal and Chelsea goalkeeper\" title=\"Edouard Mendy, Senegal and Chelsea goalkeeper\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/> <span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Edouard Mendy, Senegal and Chelsea goalkeeper<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">The Senegal international has been honoured as the best shot-stopper in world football after his impressive start to life at Stamford Bridge<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy has become the first African to win the Best Fifa Men&#8217;s Goalkeeper award.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy claimed the 2021 recognition on Monday after beating Italy\u2019s Gianluigi Donnarumma and Bayern Munich\u2019s Manuel Neuer to the prize.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old played an instrumental role in helping Chelsea win the Uefa Champions League in his debut season with a record nine clean sheets in the process.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations with the Teranga Lions and he has been described as a pride to the continent as he looks forward to playing his first match in Cameroon against Malawi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">???????? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheBest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheBest<\/a> FIFA Men\u2019s Goalkeeper 2021 Award goes to Edouard Mendy!<\/p>\n<p>???????????? The greatest men\u2019s goalkeeper in the world! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4bMxnyJ1k9\">pic.twitter.com\/4bMxnyJ1k9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1483142490572079111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NkOky3cbM3A\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Edouard Mendy&#039;s Best Saves Of The Season So Far! | Speed, Agility and Quick-Thinking\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NkOky3cbM3A?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">???????? HISTORY! SENEGAL\u2019S BRICK WALL! ???????? <\/p>\n<p>Edouard Mendy is FIFA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheBest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheBest<\/a> Men&#8217;s Goalkeeper! AFRICA&#8217;S PRIDE! ????????<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fsfofficielle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Fsfofficielle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N8XvXxGjqF\">pic.twitter.com\/N8XvXxGjqF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #TotalEnergiesAFCON2021 ???? (@CAF_Online) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAF_Online\/status\/1483144015407194118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Edouard Mendy, the best goalkeeper in the world. <\/p>\n<p>Named tonight at the Fifa Best Awards. <\/p>\n<p>Deserved. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wno27eafAj\">pic.twitter.com\/wno27eafAj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gary Al-Smith (@garyalsmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyalsmith\/status\/1483149885033566210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">The Senegal team celebrate \u00c9douard Mendy&#8217;s FIFA Goalkeeper of the Year award ???????? Heartwarming!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/08qhVSLTbN\">pic.twitter.com\/08qhVSLTbN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saratov (@HKSaratov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HKSaratov\/status\/1483194292390801410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">FIFA BEST GOALIE<\/p>\n<p>The incontestible best goalkeeper in the World finally gets his official validation.<\/p>\n<p>First African goalkeeper to receive this award. Congratulations Eddy Mendy. <\/p>\n<p>Africa is proud of your career. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/etu4NbitTG\">pic.twitter.com\/etu4NbitTG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saddick Adams (@SaddickAdams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaddickAdams\/status\/1483146456802500608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>play videoEdouard Mendy, Senegal and Chelsea goalkeeper The Senegal international has been honoured as the best shot-stopper in world football after his impressive start to life at Stamford Bridge Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy has become the first African to win the Best Fifa Men&#8217;s Goalkeeper award. Mendy claimed the 2021 recognition on Monday after beating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1986,411,779,2138,2139,2140,136,2141,2142],"class_list":["post-755084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-award","tag-celebrate","tag-fifa","tag-goalie","tag-mendy","tag-senegals","tag-twitter","tag-users","tag-wining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}