October 7, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Inter Miami CF News Release
Inter Miami CF gather after a goal
(Inter Miami CF)
Major League Soccer (MLS) today announced nominees for its 2024 MLS Year-End Awards, highlighting the accomplishments of the league’s top players on and off the field, as well as the achievements of head coaches and referees during the 2024 MLS regular season. Nine Inter Miami CF players and head coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino feature among the nominees for the various awards amidst the team’s historic season.
Inter Miami’s nine representatives in the running for the awards are as follows:
Landon Donovan MLS MVP: Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez
Sigi Schmid MLS Coach of the Year: Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino
Audi Goals Drive Progress Impact Award: Drake Callender
MLS Newcomer of the Year: Luis Suárez and Matías Rojas
MLS Comeback Player of the Year: Ian Fray
MLS Young Player of the Year: Diego Gómez and Federico Redondo
MLS Defender of the Year: Jordi Alba and Tomás Avilés
MLS Goalkeeper of the Year: Drake Callender
Information on the 2024 MLS Year-End Awards nomination and voting process is available here.
Additionally, the Supporters’ Shield and the MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi are competitively determined awards won by the club with the most points at the end of the 2024 MLS regular season and the player with the most goals, respectively.
The Supporters’ Shield was won by Inter Miami CF on Wednesday, Oct. 2, for the first time in Club history after defeating the reigning MLS Cup champion Columbus Crew at Lower.com Field in Columbus, Ohio, 3-2.
The MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi is awarded to the player with the most goals at the end of the 2024 MLS regular season following the conclusion of all matches on MLS Decision Day, Saturday, Oct. 19. The first tiebreaker is the player with the most assists, followed by the player with the fewest minutes played.
The AT&T MLS Goal of the Year and MLS Save of the Year are determined by an online fan vote on www.MLSsoccer.com. Fan voting for these awards will open on Monday, Oct. 21 and close on Monday, Oct. 28.
The full list of nominees is available below:
Landon Donovan MLS MVP
Albert Rusnák – Seattle Sounders FC
Artur de Lima – Houston Dynamo FC
Brian White – Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Carles Gil – New England Revolution
Christian Benteke – D.C. United
Cristian Arango – Real Salt Lake
Cristian Espinoza – San Jose Earthquakes
Cucho Hernández – Columbus Crew
Dániel Gazdag – Philadelphia Union
Denis Bouanga – LAFC
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