The body governing football in the World, FIFA has named Chelsea’s and Senegal’s goalkeeper, Edouard Mendy as the best goalkeeper in the world.
FIFA announced the Chelsea player, winner of the award on its website on Monday, January 17th, 2022. The Senegalese won the award following his triumph with Chelsea at the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Super League last season ( 2020/21) season.
Mendy beat Paris Saint-Germain’s number one shot stopper, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Bayern Munich’s Manuel Neur to win the award.
Mendy is currently at the African Cup of Nations with Senegal and he will hope he can crown this award by winning the competition on February 6th, 2022