Mike Maignan has been named among the nominees for the Yachine Trophy for 2023, which is essentially the Ballon d’Or for just goalkeepers.
The Yachine Trophy is an award presented annually by France Football to the best performing goalkeeper and it is named after former goalkeeper Lev Yashin. The winner is selected by former Ballon d’Or winners and has been since its creation in 2019.
The list of candidates for the 2023 edition has been confirmed, and it contains Ederson of Manchester City, Thibaut Courtois of Real Madrid and Marc-André Ter Stegen of Barcelona, as well as ex-Inter keeper André Onana.
Maignan makes the cut after another very impressive campaign in which his saves won Milan a number of points, and a renewal seems to be on the management’s agenda.
However, the bad news is that Rafael Leao – nor any Milan player for that matter – has not been named in the 30-man shortlist for the main Ballon d’Or award.
🧤 @mmseize has been nominated for the 2023 Yachine Trophy pic.twitter.com/dXKpdPynBR
— SempreMilan (@SempreMilanCom) September 6, 2023
If we are honest, does any other Milan player deserve to be on the Ballon D’or list?
Milan had a very, very poor season, especially since the turn of the year. That poor season was a little bit masked with getting to the semi-final of the UCL. But, the main reason why Milan ( and Inter) went so far in the UCL last season was because they got very lucky to be on the way easier side of the knockout bracket.
ManCity, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, Leipzig, Dortmund on 1 side of the bracket, compared to Milan, Inter, Napoli, Tottenham, Porto, Benfica, Eintracht Frankfurt, Brugge on the other side.
Also, in 6 UCL knockout games, Milan scored only 3 goals.
Deserved recognition for Maignan.
How is Messi top favorite to win it when his biggest accomplishment happened in the end of 2022? Did they change it to a season award, because i thought it was a calendar year award.
Yeah it was changed to a seasonal award. That’s how Benzema won it after that blockbuster season.
The previoua edition was before World Cup, hence why this edition include World Cup. Lets just say it is the past 365 days instead of calendar year.
Giroud maybe for NT games.
maybe krunić
Onana ahead of Maignan?
Barella is nominated but not Leao?
What a joke!
Maignan missed half the season and also world cup. Not saying that Onana is better GK but last year he clocked in a lot of minutes and reached CL final, so there’s definitely an argument there.
But hard seeing other than Ederson winning it, as he got the treble essentially.
And yeah, no Milan players deserved to be in the Balloon d’Or nomination considering how poor our second half of the season was. Fair enough.
balon d or? it should be Messi, if they consider world cup.
goalkeeper? maignan. the thing is he got injured last season for a long time, so he might not win