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2 Chelsea players reach the FIFA FIFPro Women’s World XI
A report from football.london mentions that Chelsea players Millie Bright and Pernille Harder made it to the XI FIFA FIFPro 2020 Women’s World Cup.
The Best FIFA Awards for 2020 were held in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday evening.
Thiago Silva and N’Golo Kante were nominated for the Men’s XI World Cup, but they didn’t make the cut. However, two Chelsea players made it to the women’s world eleven.
Danish forward Pernille Harder and defender Millie Bright made the Women’s World XI. Harder also came in second place behind Lucy Bronze for the Best Player of the Year award.
Harder and Bright were nominated on the short list alongside their Blues teammates Magda Eriksson, Ann-Katrin Berger, Bethany England, Erin Cuthbert and Ji So Yun.
The full Women’s World XI roster for 2020 is: Christiane Endler, Lucy Bronze, Wendie Renard, Millie Bright, Delphine Cascarino, Barbara Bonansea, Veronica Boquete, Megan Rapinoe, Pernille Harder, Vivianne Miedema, Tobin Heath.
Harder joined Chelsea this summer from German VfL Wolfsburg in a supposedly world record move. (h / t football.london)
He enjoyed a record spell with Wolfsburg where he won the national double for 4 seasons in a row.
In 2020, she also became the first player to win the UEFA Player of the Year twice.
Meanwhile, Bright, 27, recently entered his seventh year with the Blues. He has been a stalwart in the defense of Chelsea and the England national team.
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Other winners of the night included Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp, who won the best manager of the year award, while Robert Lewandowski took home the FIFA men’s player of the year award.
Sarina Wiegman, England’s future coach, won the award for best female coach of the year. She won the award ahead of Chelsea head coach Emma Hayes.
