Great goal from Argentine Erik Lamela, with Tottenham Hotspur, won the FIFA ‘Puskas’ Award

The Argentine Erik Lamela received the Prize Puskas to the most beautiful goal of 2021, during the FIFA Awards ceremony held this Monday in Zurich, for a rabona goal achieved when he played for Tottenham against Arsenal last season in the Premier League.

The current Sevilla player succeeds his former Spurs teammate, the South Korean Son Heung-min, winner in 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Ecj1M_mZQ

Lamela outvoted the Iranian Mehdi Taremi (Porto) and the Czech Patrik Schik (Bayer Leverkusen).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIemYBtqmwQ

The medical team and the players of the Danish national football team received the Fair-Play award for helping and saving the life of their captain, Christian Eriksen, when he collapsed in the middle of the European Championship match against Finland after suffering a heart attack.

The award for the best goalkeeper of 2021 went to the Senegalese from Chelsea Edouard Mendy, winner of the Champions League, beating the Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris SG, ex-AC Milan) and the German from Bayern Manuel Neuer in the votes.

In the women’s category, the award for best goalkeeper went to Chilean Christiane Endler, brilliant last season with Paris SG and who signed this season with great rival Lyon.

Chelsea added the two awards to the best coaches of the year: Thomas Tuchel for the men’s team and Emma Hayes for the women’s.

Tuchel defeated the Spanish Pep Guardiola (Manchester City), whom he defeated in the Champions League final, and the Italian Roberto Mancini, European champion with the Nazionale.

Hayes, for his part, gave the surprise by beating Spaniard Lluis Cortés, coach of Barcelona, ​​who defeated Chelsea in the final of the Women’s Champions League by a resounding 4-0. (D)