FIFA WC profitable coach Fuente, Arsenal boss Arteta, PSG coach Enrique amongst nominees for Johan Cruyff Trophy

Paris [France], September 8 (ANI): FIFA World Cup-winning coach Luis de la Fuente and Premier League-winning Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta have been among the many nominees for the Johan Cruyff Trophy to be offered on the annual Ballon d’Or ceremony. 

The official deal with of the Ballon d’Or, the best particular person honour in soccer, began rolling out the nominees on Wednesday. 

The ceremony for Ballon d’Or will happen in London on October 26 this yr. 

The Johan Cruyff Trophy, honouring the perfect coaches of the season in males’s and girls’s soccer, began to be given out in 2024. 

Posting on X, Arteta, de la Fuente, Aston Villa coach Unai Emery, Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) have been introduced because the nominees amongst males’s coaches. 

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Fuente led Spain to their second FIFA World Cup title this yr in July, additionally their first one since 2010, when an extra-time purpose from Ferran Torres helped them beat Argentina 1-0 within the closing at New Jersey. 

Arteta led Arsenal to Premier League glory for the primary time in 22 years, ending the league with 26 wins, seven attracts and 5 losses in 38 matches, giving them 85 factors. He additionally led his membership to a UEFA Champions League runners-up end, the place they misplaced to PSG. 

Emery, who guided Aston Villa to UEFA Champions League with a fourth-place end within the Premier League, additionally led them to the UEFA Europa League, the second-tier prize in European soccer, beating SC Freiburg within the closing this yr in May. 

Kompany, related to Bayern Munich as a supervisor from 2024 onwards, earned them a home treble of the Bundesliga, German Cup, German Super Cup within the earlier season. 

Lastly, Enrique made a long-lasting legacy as PSG boss, serving to his membership to a back-to-back UEFA Champions League title, alongside Ligue 1 (the French top-flight), the French Super Cup, the FIFA Intercontinental Cup 2025 and their second UEFA Super Cup title win with a 2-1 win over Aston Villa in August. 

In ladies’s soccer, Jonatan Giraldez was nominated for main Spain’s OL Lyonnes membership to French Championship, French Cup, French League Cup. The different nominees included: Andree Jeglertz, who guided Manchester City to the Women’s Super League 2025-26, FA Cup, Japan ladies’s head coach Nils Nielsen, who guided them to AFC Women’s Asian Cup this yr, FC Barcelona’s Pere Romeu, who led the crew to the Champions League, Liga, Spanish Cup, Spanish Super Cup final season and Elena Sadiku, coach of BK Hacken FF, main them to the UEFA Women’s Europa Cup this season. (ANI)