In 2019, France Soccer created a brand new award to honor the very best keeper of the earlier season, naming it after the one goalkeeper in historical past to win the Ballon d’Or Award – USSR icon Lev Yashin. Liverpool star Alisson (2019), Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) man Gianluigi Donnarumma (2021), and Actual Madrid ace Thibaut Courtois (2022) received the Yashin Trophy within the final three years.
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On Wednesday (September 6), France Soccer launched the 10-man shortlist for the 2023 Yashin Trophy, and right now, we are going to rank the highest 5 based mostly on their possibilities of successful it. Now with out additional ado, let’s take a look at the 5 favorites to take residence the Yashin Trophy 2023 in Paris on October 30.
#5 Thibaut Courtois (Actual Madrid/Belgium)
Final season’s Yashin Trophy winner Thibaut Courtois has as soon as once more been nominated for the celebrated award, and deservedly so. The Belgian was Los Blancos’ finest participant for almost all of the 2022-23 season, making some beautiful saves. The Whites did not win La Liga and the UEFA Champions League, however Courtois helped them keep away from a trophyless season by dropping outstanding performances within the Copa del Rey. He performed 5 matches within the Copa del Rey final time period, making a powerful 15 saves.
Courtois has sadly ruptured his ACL and is about to overlook a serious chunk of the 2023-24 season.
#4 Andre Onana (Manchester United-Inter Milan/Cameroon)
Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana was a brick wall for his former membership Inter Milan within the 2022-23 season. Within the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League, Onana began all 13 video games, making a whopping 47 saves and conceding simply 11 targets. His heroics went a great distance in serving to the Nerazzurri to the Champions League remaining, the place they finally misplaced 1-0 to Manchester Metropolis.
Onana, sadly, didn’t function for Cameroon on the 2022 FIFA World Cup, leaving the squad prematurely after falling out with the hierarchy.
#3 Yassine Bounou (Sevilla-Al Hilal/Morocco)
Present Al Hilal goalkeeper Yassine ‘Bono’ Bounou was at his finest within the 2022-23 season, each for his then-club Sevilla and his nation, Morocco. Bono proved to be an impenetrable wall as Sevilla lifted the UEFA Europa League on the finish of final season, beating AS Roma within the remaining. Bono emerged because the undisputed hero of the ultimate, saving two penalties and permitting Sevilla to safe a 4-1 shootout win.
Bounou additionally made headlines for Morocco on the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Within the quarter-final conflict in opposition to heavyweights Spain, Bono made two huge saves within the shootout, denying Carlos Soler and Pablo Sarabia. It allowed the Atlas Lions to turn into the first-ever African workforce to succeed in the FIFA World Cup semis.
#2 Ederson (Manchester Metropolis/Brazil)
Manchester Metropolis shot-stopper Ederson loved a historic 2022-23 marketing campaign. The Brazilian goalkeeper received the UEFA Champions League, Premier League, and FA Cup with Metropolis, changing into solely the second first-choice goalkeeper behind Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel to win the Treble with an English membership. Ederson didn’t must make too many saves for Metropolis, as his workforce like to maintain the ball, however he got here good every time referred to as upon. His finest efficiency got here within the UEFA Champions League remaining in opposition to Inter Milan, with him making two glorious saves within the dying embers of the sport to safe a 1-0 victory over Metropolis.
The 30-year-old, nonetheless, continued to play second fiddle to Alisson for Brazil, making only one look on the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
#1 Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa/Argentina)
Having not solely received the 2022 FIFA World Cup but in addition the Golden Glove Award, Argentina star Emiliano Martinez will fancy bagging the 2023 Yashin Trophy. All through the marketing campaign in Qatar, Martinez made some astonishing saves. He stopped two Netherlands penalties within the quarter-finals, denied France’s Randal Kolo Muani in further time within the remaining, and lastly, saved out Kingsley Coman’s penalty to make sure World Cup glory for La Albiceleste.
Martinez additionally carried out impressively for Aston Villa over the course of the 2022-23 marketing campaign, making 98 saves in 36 video games because the Villans secured a seventh-placed end.
