2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations winning Coach, Florence Omagbemi has been nominated for The Best FIFA Women’s Coach 2017.
Omagbemi was listed among nine other national and club team Coaches in the race for the award.
#TheBest FIFA Women’s Coach 2017 award nominees (2/3)
🇩🇰Nils Nielsen
🇳🇬Florence Omagbemi
🇫🇷Gérard Prêcheur pic.twitter.com/KF1W6aeh8c— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) August 17, 2017
The former Super Falcons Captain guided the team to an unprecedented 10th African title, defeating host Cameroon inside the capacity, Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo in Yaoundé.
FIFA announced the list of nominees for the award on Thursday on its Twitter handle.
#TheBest FIFA Women’s Coach 2017 award nominees (1/3)
🇫🇷Olivier Echouafni
🇬🇧@emmahayes1
🇩🇪Ralf Kellermann
🇪🇸Xavi Llorens pic.twitter.com/CJkQvFMIaq— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) August 17, 2017
#TheBest FIFA Women’s Coach 2017 award nominees (3/3)
🇦🇹Dominik Thalhammer
🇳🇱Sarina Wiegman
🇰🇵Hwang Yong-Bong pic.twitter.com/FiuK4HWsqF— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) August 17, 2017
Here are the 🔟 candidates for #TheBest FIFA Women’s Coach 2017 🙌 pic.twitter.com/qFi01PxgyA
— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) August 17, 2017
According to FIFA, the winner will be chosen by a process involving the four main stakeholders involved in football: national team coaches, captains, selected media and the fans.
Voting starts on Monday 21 August and closes on 7 September, with the women’s awards taking the period 20 November 2016 to 6 August 2017 inclusive into account.
The final lists of three nominees for the men’s and women’s player and coach categories – as well as for the FIFA Puskás Award, the FIFA Fan Award and the brand new The Best FIFA Goalkeeper Award – will be announced in mid-September.
