Tuesday 17 December 2024 17:15
Congratulations to Alejandro Garnacho, who is the winner of the FIFA Puskas Award for 2024.
The Manchester United winger has been recognised for the stunning, acrobatic bicycle kick he netted at Everton in November 2023.
It was an effort that won our Goal of the Season vote in 2023/24 and the Goodison Park stunner was also named the Premier League’s finest of the last campaign.
Now it’s officially been deemed the best strike scored anywhere in the world during the qualifying period – August 2023 to August 2024 – with the announcement made by Alessandro Del Piero at The Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony in Doha, Qatar.
All the Angles: Garnacho v Everton Video
All the Angles: Garnacho v Everton
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Our no.17’s goal was simply stunning, as he somehow contorted his body to connect with Diogo Dalot’s cross in the early stages of our meeting with the Merseysiders.
The timing couldn’t have been any more perfect, leaving Everton and England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford helpless and all those in attendance – and watching on screens further afield – open-mouthed at the sheer brilliance of what they’d just witnessed.
Garnacho has become only the second Red ever to win the award, following on from idol Cristiano Ronaldo.
Our legendary former no.7 was the maiden recipient, back in 2009, for an equally impressive goal – that long-range thunderbolt at Porto in the 2008/09 Champions League quarter-finals.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Neymar, Mohamed Salah and Son Heung-min are among the iconic names to have followed in Ronaldo’s footsteps in the intervening years, although there have been some less-heralded winners, given the award’s nature, as it encompasses all levels of senior football.
Voting for this edition was split equally between fans and a panel of FIFA legends, with Garnacho overcoming 10 other goals to claim the accolade.
Well done to our no.17 and thanks to all those who supported him. It’s a goal that we’ll cherish for years to come.
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