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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Tom Kershaw

Lucy Bronze nominated for Uefa Player of the Year award alongside Ada Hegerberg and Amandine Henry

England's World Cup talisman Lucy Bronze has been nominated for the 2018/19 Uefa Women’s Player of the Year award.

Bronze has been selected alongside Olympique Lyonnais teammates Ada Hegerberg and Amandine Henry.

The 27-year-old full-back becomes England’s first representative to make the final shortlist of three.

All three players featured in the 4-1 Champions League win over Barcelona where Ballon D’Or winner Hegerberg - who won the Uefa award in 2016 – scored a hat-trick.

Previous winners of the award are Nadine Angerer (2013), Nadine Kessler (2014), Célia Šašić (2015), Hegerberg (2016), Lieke Martens (2017) and Pernille Harder (2018).

The rest of the top ten:

4 Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal & Netherlands) – 31 points

5 Ellen White (Birmingham City, now Manchester City & England) – 22 points

6 Pernille Harder (Wolfsburg & Denmark) – 21 points

7 Dzsenifer Marozsán (Lyon & Germany) – 12 points

8 Caroline Graham Hansen (Wolfsburg, now Barcelona & Norway) – 10 points

9= Lieke Martens (Barcelona & Netherlands) – 9 points

9= Wendie Renard (Lyon & France) – 9 points

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