Exactly one month before the verdict, the lists have been revealed to designate the best athletes of the year, the most brilliant team and the most convincing coach of 2023.
What if 2023 revived an old tradition? That of seeing a footballer take part in the fight for the title of best sportsman of the year and that also of the old-fashioned taste of imagining a girl from athletics coming to tease her classmates that we find in disciplines much more often in the spotlight during the sports press gala.
We can be reckless but we will not go all-in at the Mondorf Casino on December 7 because the election promises to be more indecisive than ever. Although we had never seen such a mano a mano as that between the cyclist Bob Jungles and the pilot Dylan Pereira Last year. So much so that it was impossible to decide between them. Without offending the 2023 vintage, we find fewer flashes and more candidates on the same crest line.
The exercise of designating this or that sportsman is high acrobatics. We have to be able to put a host of parameters into perspective when we generally tend to only see the tip of the iceberg. Personal investment, competition, the frequency of competitions are all benchmarks that count when it comes to end-of-season assessment.
Among men, the strong comeback of footballers has not gone unnoticed. The performance of Leandro Barreiro in Mainz and those ofAnthony Moris at Union Saint-Gilloise were added to the results of the selection of Luc Holtz. The two players put forward solid arguments to succeed Jeff Strasser, the last footballer elected in his garden in 2001. Athletics places its two male gondola heads in the candidates with the shot putter Bob Bertemes and the middle distance specialist Charles Grethen.
The ladies could, however, steal the show from the boys this year with a brilliant constellation like never before. They are at least three to claim the laurels after the pair’s plebiscite Sarah De Nutte-Ni Xia Lian last year. Jeanne Lehair brought a breath of fresh air to the Grand Ducal triathlon by becoming European champion in Madrid before finishing off the podium during two rounds of the very competitive World Cup. Marie Schreiber is indeed the worthy heir of a Christine Majerus who has not said his last word. The young plowed specialist has just been European vice-champion in the Espoirs category in Pontchâteau in France. Finally, Patrizia Van der Weeks aired the competition at the last University World Championships, becoming the fastest girl in the world. A performance among many others including that of being the first COSL athlete qualified for the Paris Games and that of having clocked a time of 11”02 in the 100m, which made her the fourth girl for several weeks the fastest in the Old Continent. Vera Hoffmann and Jenny Warling do not mismatch in this enchanting painting.
The men’s football team is applying for its own succession after an emotional year in 2023 with a frantic race towards Euro 2024 in Germany which is not quite over. Ni and De Nutte in doubles but also in the women’s selection as well as the Davis Cup team, back in the forefront, will try to give Luc Holtz’s players a hard time.
The coach is also given favorite in the “coach of the year” category. Representatives of the sports press have their work cut out for them to cut through these Gordian knots.
The lists
Best Sportsman Trophy (11)
Leandro Barreiro (football), Bob Bertemes (athletics), Victor Bettendorf (equestrianism), Flavio Giannotte (fencing), Charles Grethen (athletes), Alex Kirsch (cycling), Ben Kovac (basketball), Anthony Moris (football), Grégoire Münster (rally), Gregor Payet (triathlon), Nicolas Wagner Ehlinger (equestrian dressage)
Best Sportswoman Trophy (10)
Laura Miller (football), Ni Xia Lian (table tennis), Jeanne Lehair (triathlon), Christine Majerus (cycling), Vera Hoffmann (athletics), Marie Schreiber (cycling), Céleste Mordenti (gymnastics), Mariya Shkolna (shooting l’arc), Patrizia Van der Weken (athletics), Jenny Warling (karate)
Best Team Challenge (7)
Basketball (women’s 3×3), basketball (men’s national team), football (men’s national team), tennis (Davis Cup), table tennis (Nutte-Ni doubles), table tennis (women’s national team), shooting arc (double mixed Shkolna-Seywert)
Coach of the Year Award (5)
Tommy Danielsson (table tennis), Ken Diederich (basketball), Dan Lorang (cycling-triathlon), Luc Holtz (football), Arnaud Starck (athletics)
2023-11-07 05:23:00
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