{"id":131084,"date":"2023-12-14T12:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/14\/fifa-announce-finalists-for-best-womens-coach-and-best-mens-coach-awards\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T12:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:21:30","slug":"fifa-announce-finalists-for-best-womens-coach-and-best-mens-coach-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/14\/fifa-announce-finalists-for-best-womens-coach-and-best-mens-coach-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA announce finalists for Best Women\u2019s Coach and Best Men\u2019s Coach awards \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>England Women manager Sarina Wiegman and Manchester City\u2019s Pep Guardiola are among the names shortlisted for the The Best FIFA Women\u2019s Coach and The Best FIFA Men\u2019s Coach awards for 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FIFA have announced the six managers who have been named as finalists for both awards, with Wiegman being among Chelsea Women manager Emma Hayes and Barcelona Femeni\u2019s Jonatan Giraldez as the trio in contention for the Women\u2019s Coach award. Pep Guardiola is going up against Italian coaches Simone Inzaghi and Luciano Spalletti for the men\u2019s gong.<\/p>\n<p>Wiegman will be hoping to receive the Women\u2019s Coach award a record fourth time, having already won it in 2017, 2020 and 2022. The Dutch national enjoyed yet another fantastic year as\u00a0England\u2019s manager\u00a0in 2023, guiding the Lionesses to their first ever FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup final \u2013 a final they would eventually lose to Spain in Australia.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/01hhj2hhtexp02thhbzh.jpg\" alt=\"UEFA Women's Nations LeagueBelgium v England\" title=\"UEFA Women's Nations LeagueBelgium v England\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>A top manager \/ ANP\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Hayes, another former winner of the award, has earned her spot on the shortlist thanks to another domestic double-winning campaign at Chelsea, while Giraldez has earned his first nomination having guided Barcelna Femini to a famous UEFA Champions League triumph during the 2022\/23 season.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola will be the heavy favourite to win Best FIFA Men\u2019s Coach award this time round having won a remarkable treble with Man City last season. Surprisingly, Guardiola has never finished higher than second place in voting for the award in previous years \u2013 achieving a second place finish in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Man City\u00a0boss will be up against Coppa Italia winner and Champions League finalist Inzaghi, as well as Spalletti, the man who led Napoli to their first Scudetto in over three decades for the prize.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of both awards will be revealed at a London ceremony on 15 January 2024 \u2013 the third time the ceremony has been held in the English capital.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"mLQxU422rrA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sports News in Twi: Rodri sees red! Mbappe injured! 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FIFA have announced the six managers who have been named as finalists for both awards, with Wiegman being among Chelsea Women manager Emma Hayes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FIFA announce finalists for Best Women\u2019s Coach and Best Men\u2019s Coach awards \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/14\/fifa-announce-finalists-for-best-womens-coach-and-best-mens-coach-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FIFA announce finalists for Best Women\u2019s Coach and Best Men\u2019s Coach awards \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"England Women manager Sarina Wiegman and Manchester City\u2019s Pep Guardiola are among the names shortlisted for the The Best FIFA Women\u2019s Coach and The Best FIFA Men\u2019s Coach awards for 2023. 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