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Torres nominated for prestigious Laureus Sport Awards

The Spain and Liverpool number ‘9’ has made the first shortlist for the widely acknowledged Laureus World Sports Awards. The honour, which celebrates its tenth ...

12-03-2009

The Spain and Liverpool number ‘9’ has made the first shortlist for the widely acknowledged Laureus World Sports Awards. The honour, which celebrates its tenth anniversary, is regarded as the premier awards event on the international sporting calendar.

Football provides several candidates. Fernando Torres, who scored the winning goal for Spain in the European Championship final against Germany, and struck 33 goals for Liverpool in his debut season for Liverpool, is joined by Golden Ball winner Cristiano Ronaldo, Spain team-mate Xavi, who was named Best Player of the 2008 European Championship, and Barcelona's Samuel Eto’o.

Torres will also be up against Jamaica sprinter Usain Bolt who won 100 metres, 200 metres and sprint relay gold medals at the Beijing Olympics; and swimmer Michael Phelps who won eight gold medals at the same event, overtaking the feat of Mark Spitz who won seven golds in Munich in 1972. Rafael Nadal, who took over from Roger Federer as World No 1 in August 2008, is also one of the nominees for the award.

The voting for Laureus World Sports Awards is a two-part process. Firstly, a selection panel of the world’s leading sports editors, writers and broadcasters from over 120 countries vote to create a shortlist of six nominations. The names of the final nominees, the venue and date of the 2009 Laureus World Sports Awards will be announced by April 16.

The Laureus Academy, made up of 46 of the greatest sportsmen and sportswomen of all time including Pelé, Bobby Charlton, Beckenbauer, Michael Jordana and Severiano Ballesteros, will select the winners for the following categories: Sportsman of the Year, Sportswoman of the Year, Team of the Year, Breakthrough of the Year and Comeback of the Year.

Double Olympic gold medallist Edwin Moses, Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy, said: “I think the world’s media will have a difficult job coming up with a list of just six from all the possible names and I think there is going to be quite a debate over the next few months about who should win.”


Photo: J.A. Sirvent