To paraphrase Ron Swanson, awards are dumb, but they’re less dumb when they go to the right people. And in this weird, dumb, hellish year, awards are even more dumb given that our usual ways of evaluating play were jumbled up and tossed in the garbage. Maybe your league got back to regular play fairly quickly; maybe you had multiple games cancelled because someone tested positive; maybe you had to bubble in order to get any games. So yeah, every year is a year to be cautious about the FIFA Best shortlist process and who gets to vote and why, but this is a year to be doubly cautious about drawing any conclusions.
Alyssa Naeher is the only American shortlisted for a FIFA Best award
