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#3 Thibaut Courtois wins Best Goalkeeper Award but isn’t named in FIFPro XI
For starters, Thibaut Courtois, Hugo Lloris and Kasper Schmeichel were nominated for the Best Goalkeeper of the Year when the likes of David De Gea, Jan Oblak, Marc-André ter Stegen and Alisson were left out.
If you somehow looked past the ridiculous nominations and made your peace with Thibaut Courtois winning the award, then it only made sense for Courtois to be included in the FIFPro XI, right? Once again, FIFA thinks otherwise.
David De Gea, who in my opinion should have won the best Goalkeeper Award, was included in the FIFPro XI when FIFA didn’t even deem him worthy of a top three nomination for the Best Goalkeeper Award.
Irony doesn’t get much larger than this. Well done FIFA on ruining yet another year’s awards.
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