The goalkeeper of the selection of Morocco and the Saudi club Al Hilal , Yassine Bounou is nominated for the annual Ballon d’Or and Yachine trophies , organized by the monthly magazine France Football to reward, respectively, the best player and the best goalkeeper of the 2022-2023 season.
Bounou appears in the lists of nominees for these two trophies, published Wednesday on the France Football website, after a superb season marked by a historic fourth place at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with the Moroccan selection and a Europa League title with his former Spanish club Sevilla FC , with a record of 47 matches, 66 goals conceded and 14 clean sheets. Commenting on Bounou
‘s season , France Football highlighted that “his intuitions and his know-how during the penalty shootouts against Spain with Moroccoin the round of 16 of the World Cup (0-0, 3-0 in the tabs) and against AS Rome with Sevilla FC in the final of the Europa League (1-1, 4-1 in the tabs) impressed”
These two trophies are awarded by an international jury of specialized journalists, one representative per country (the first 100 in the latest FIFA ranking ), based on three main criteria observed, namely individual performances and decisive and impressive character . , collective performances and prize lists and class and fair play.