TEHRAN – Porto forward
Mehdi Taremi’s wonderful bicycle kick goal against Chelsea was shortlisted for the FIFA Puskas Award 2021.
The Iran star, whose effort in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal has already seen him win the UEFA.com Goal of the Season for 2020/21, will be aiming to succeed Korea Republic’s Son Heung-min as this year’s winner.
Taremi’s sensational effort came deep into added time in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal second leg on April 13, though it was not enough to prevent Porto from being eliminated by the eventual winner.
The winner will be selected by an international jury comprising a panel of FIFA Legends and registered fans from all over the world on FIFA.com. Each of the two groups of voters within the jury has the same electoral weight.
The FIFA Puskás Award is an award established on 20 October 2009 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), at the behest of then-president Sepp Blatter, to be awarded to the male or female judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant, or “most beautiful”, goal of the calendar year.