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Manchester United goalkeeper, Mary Earps, has received the Finest FIFA Ladies’s Goalkeeper award for the second consecutive yr.
Earps scooped the award final yr after a profitable 2022 which noticed her and her fellow Lionesses topped European Champions.
This yr, England made it to the World Cup ultimate the place they have been narrowly overwhelmed by Spain.
For Earps there was private achievement as she took on sporting giants Nike and received.
Earps mentioned in her speech: “I wish to say thanks to my teammates, I really feel extremely privileged to have the ability to be on a pitch with you and study from you.
“Thanks to all my coaches at England and United, I’m simply blown away. I believe I discuss that it’s not been the simplest journey to get right here, some would say I took the scenic route and I needed to wait a very long time for this sort of success however trying again now it is sensible what I went by.”
The England shot-stopper was nominated alongside West Ham and Australia keeper Mackenzie Arnold and Spain’s Catalina Coll.
Earps attended the award present alongside her Lionesses teammates and coach Sarina Wiegman, who received the Finest Ladies’s Coach Award.
In her speech Wiegman mentioned: “Wow. A few of you assume ‘there she is once more’ I’m so sorry about that. I really feel very humble and privileged that I’m right here once more.
“Thanks to the FA for his or her help and all our workers and to all our gamers they did so nicely. Plenty of issues have been thrown in entrance of us and we did so nicely.”
Wiegman beat Barcelona’s Jonatan Giraldez, and Chelsea’s Emma Hayes to the award.
The FIFA Fifpro ladies’s world XI consists of Mary Earps and United teammate Ella Toone.
