Chelsea had several players and coach nominated for UEFA seasonal awards this year, which was only fitting considering that the women’s team reached the final of the 2020-21 Champions League and the men’s team won the whole thing.
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Jorginho was named as UEFA men’s player of the year, while Blues keeper Mendy scooped the goalkeeper of the year prize for the 2020/21 Champions League, with Kante named the midfielder of the year.
Thomas Tuchel was also named the men’s coach of the year despite not being in charge during the group stages.
The Chelsea playing trio all bagged individual awards but it was the Italian international Jorginho who took home the main prize.
The 29-year-old won the UEFA men’s player of the year award after helping Chelsea to win the Champions League and winning Euro 2020 with Italy.
Jorginho beat Chelsea teammate N’Golo Kante and Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne to the award.
Bizarrely the same three men were nominated for the midfielder of the year award, which was won by Kante.
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Jorginho scored one goal and provided one assist in twelve Champions League appearances last season, helping Chelsea to lift the trophy for the second time in their history.
Kante meanwhile played all thirteen of Chelsea’s Champions League games in the 2020/21 season as he won the midfielder of the year award.
His energetic displays that earned him the accolade, with the 30-year-old French World Cup winner putting in typically robust performances during the course of the competition.
Kante and Jorginho’s Stamford Bridge teammate Edouard Mendy was awarded the Champions League goalkeeper of the year award.
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The 29-year-old shot-stopper kept NINE clean sheets in twelve games in the competition last season, and conceded just three goals in the entire tournament.
He equalled the record for the most clean sheets in a Champions League after shutting out Manchester City in May’s final.
City’s Ruben Dias picked up the defender of the year award for the role he played in Pep Guardiola’s side’s run to the final.
He was part of a Manchester City defence that kept eight clean sheets in thirteen games en route to their first ever Champions League final.
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