{"id":353115,"date":"2025-12-18T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353115\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:09:13","slug":"ousmane-dembele-and-aitana-bonmati-favourites-for-globe-soccer-awards-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353115\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousmane Dembele and Aitana Bonmati favourites for Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

The grand finalists for the 16th Globe Soccer Awards to be held in Dubai later this month have been revealed after more than 30 million votes were cast by football fans around the world to decide this year\u2019s contenders, organisers said.<\/p>\n

Vying for the respective best men’s and women’s awards are reigning Ballon d’Or holders Ousmane Dembele<\/a> and Aitana Bonmati, while PSG coach Luis Enrique makes the five-man shortlist for Best Men’s Coach.<\/p>\n

Dembele has enjoyed a record-breaking campaign at Paris Saint-Germain, helping the French club win six trophies in 2025, including the French league, Uefa Champions League and, on Wednesday, the Fifa Intercontinental Cup<\/a> following a shoot-out win over Brazilian side Flamengo.<\/p>\n

Barcelona midfield maestro Bonmati, 27, won her third consecutive Ballon d’Or in the autumn and also picked up the Fifa Best Award \u2013 as did Dembele<\/a> \u2013 at Tuesday night’s awards in Doha.<\/p>\n

Joining Dembele on the shortlist at the Globe Awards in the men’s category is his PSG teammate Vitinha, Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe and Barcelona duo Raphinha and Lamine Yamal.<\/p>\n

Bonmati faces competition from her Barca teammate Alexia Putellas, Arsenal duo Alessia Russo and Mariona Caldentey and Lyon’s Melchie Dumornay.<\/p>\n

The winners will be crowned at an exclusive, invitation-only ceremony on December 28 at the Atlantis The Royal hotel in Dubai.<\/p>\n

In the two global public voting windows, votes were cast across nine core categories including Best Men\u2019s Player, Best Women\u2019s Player, Best Men\u2019s Club, Best Women\u2019s Club, Best Coach, Best Midfielder, Best Forward, Emerging Player, and Best Middle East Player. <\/p>\n

Awards will also be handed out for categories including Best Agent, Best Sporting Director, the Maradona Award, plus career and special awards. <\/p>\n

The grand finalists <\/p>\n

Uefa Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain dominate the final shortlists. They are in the running for Best Men\u2019s Club alongside Barcelona, Chelsea, Flamengo and Liverpool, while in the Best Coach category PSG boss Luis Enrique will go up against Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Mikel Arteta (Arsenal), Hansi Flick (Barcelona) and Enzo Maresca (Chelsea). <\/p>\n

In the Best Women\u2019s Club category, the grand finalists are Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea, and Juventus.<\/p>\n

Adding to the evening\u2019s star power, Cristiano Ronaldo has confirmed his attendance. The Portugal and Al Nassr forward is also a finalist in the Best Middle East Player category, alongside the likes of Salem Al Dawsari (Al Hilal), Karim Benzema (Al Ittihad), and Riyad Mahrez (Al Ahli).<\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s La Liga, a strategic partner of the Globe Soccer Awards, will also present the winners of its 2024\/25 season awards in Dubai. <\/p>\n

The winners are: Raphinha, Barcelona \u2013 Best Player; Hansi Flick, Barcelona \u2013 Best Coach; Lamine Yamal, Barcelona \u2013 Best Emerging Player; Luka Sucic, Real Sociedad \u2013 Best Goal; and Jan Oblak, Atletico Madrid \u2013 Best Save.<\/p>\n

MWTC<\/p>\n

Tickets start from Dh100 for adults and are now on sale at www.ticketmaster.ae<\/a> and Virgin Megastores across the UAE. Three-day and travel packages are also available at 20 per cent discount.<\/p>\n

MOUNTAINHEAD REVIEW<\/p>\n

Starring: Ramy Youssef, Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman<\/p>\n

Director: Jesse Armstrong<\/p>\n

Rating: 3.5\/5<\/p>\n

THE CARD<\/p>\n

2pm: Maiden Dh 60,000 (Dirt) 1,400m<\/p>\n

2.30pm: Handicap Dh 76,000 (D) 1,400m<\/p>\n

3pm: Handicap Dh 64,000 (D) 1,200m<\/p>\n

3.30pm: Shadwell Farm Conditions Dh 100,000 (D) 1,000m<\/p>\n

4pm: Maiden Dh 60,000 (D) 1,000m<\/p>\n

4.30pm: Handicap 64,000 (D) 1,950m<\/p>\n

At a glance<\/p>\n

– 20,000 new jobs for Emiratis over three years<\/p>\n

– Dh300 million set aside to train 18,000 jobseekers in new skills<\/p>\n

– Managerial jobs in government restricted to Emiratis<\/p>\n

– Emiratis to get priority for 160 types of job in private sector<\/p>\n

– Portion of VAT revenues will fund more graduate programmes<\/p>\n

– 8,000 Emirati graduates to do 6-12 month replacements in public or private sector on a Dh10,000 monthly wage – 40 per cent of which will be paid by government<\/p>\n

2019 ASIA CUP POTS<\/p>\n

Pot 1
UAE, Iran, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n

Pot 2
China, Syria, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Qatar, Thailand<\/p>\n

Pot 3
Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Palestine, Oman, India, Vietnam<\/p>\n

Pot 4
North Korea, Philippines, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, Turkmenistan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grand finalists for the 16th Globe Soccer Awards to be held in Dubai later this month have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1205,49,48,3635,566,561,31127,82,2225,1320],"class_list":{"0":"post-353115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo","12":"tag-paris-saint-germain","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sport-team","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-standard","17":"tag-story"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353115","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=353115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}