Rice’s nomination comes for his stunning Champions League free-kick against Real Madrid<\/a> in Arsenal’s 3-0 first-leg quarterfinal win last season while Yamal gets on the list for a curling effort against Espanyol<\/a> that sealed the LaLiga title for Bar\u00e7a.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks The award will be decided by a 50% split between fan votes and those cast by a panel of “FIFA Legends” with the winner to be crowned at The Best FIFA Football Awards 2025.<\/p>\n Chelsea<\/a>‘s Alejandro Garnacho<\/a>, then-of Manchester United<\/a>, won the 2024 Pusk\u00e1s Award for his spectacular overhead kick against Everton<\/a> in the Premier League<\/a>, while other notable Premier League winners of the past include Mohamed Salah<\/a>, Son Heung-Min<\/a> and Olivier Giroud<\/a>.<\/p>\n The timeframe covered for the award ranges from Aug. 11 2024 to Aug. 2 2025.<\/p>\n Alessandro Deiola<\/a> of Caligari, Lucas Ribeiro of Mamelodi Sundowns<\/a> and K\u00e9vin Rodrigues<\/a> for Kas\u0131mpa\u015fa are also nominated alongside Seattle Sounders<\/a> forward Pedro de la Vega<\/a>.<\/p>\n “To score my first free kick in a game is a special one. And then when I got the second one. I just had the confidence. I’m speechless, really,” Rice told Amazon Prime after the Real Madrid game in April.<\/p>\n “When you score a goal, it’s the best feeling in the world. It didn’t make sense from that angle to cross the ball. It would have to be a delicate pass.<\/p>\n “And when I saw the wall, it didn’t make sense to cross. You know what, I’m happy I took it because it was magic.”<\/p>\n FIFA Pusk\u00e1s Award nominees<\/p>\n Alessandro Deiola<\/a>, Cagliari<\/a> v. Venezia, May 18 2025<\/p>\n Pedro de la Vega<\/a>, Cruz Azul v. Seattle Sounders, July 31 2025<\/p>\n Santiago Montiel<\/a>, Independiente v. Independiente Rivadavia, May 11 2025<\/p>\n Amr Nasser<\/a>, Al Ahly v. Pharco, April 17 2025<\/p>\n Carlos Orrant\u00eda<\/a>, Quer\u00e9taro v. Atlas, April 16 2025<\/p>\n Lucas Ribeiro<\/a>, Mamelodi Sundowns<\/a> v. Borussia Dortmund<\/a>, June 21 2025<\/p>\n Declan Rice<\/a>, Arsenal<\/a> v. Real Madrid<\/a>, April 8 2025<\/p>\n Rizky Ridho<\/a>, Persija Jakarta v. Arema, March 9 2025<\/p>\n K\u00e9vin <\/a>Rodrigues<\/a>, Kas\u0131mpa\u015fa v. Rizespor, Feb. 9 2025<\/p>\n Lamine Yamal<\/a>, Espanyol<\/a> v. Barcelona<\/a>, 15 May 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 13, 2025, 12:22 PM ET Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice and Barcelona‘s Lamine Yamal headline the nominees for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-281108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1575102_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nDeclan Rice’s free-kick against Real Madrid has been recognised with a Pusk\u00e1s Award nomination.\u00a0(Photo by Stuart MacFarlane\/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n