Three Asian players are in the running for the game’s most prestigious honours, the FIFA Puskas Award and FIFA Marta Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indonesia\u2019s Rizky Ridho, DPR Korea\u2019s Jon Ryong Jong and Australia\u2019s Kyra Cooney-Cross were announced as finalists in their respective categories on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rizky Ridho | Persija Jakarta vs Arema | 9 March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ridho\u2019s nomination stems from his spectacular strike for Persija Jakarta in their Indonesia Liga 1 clash against Arema on 9 March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The defender scored from the halfway line, sending a looping shot over an out of position Arema FC goalkeeper Lucas Frigeri to send the partisan fans into raptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kyra Cooney-Cross | Germany vs Australia | 28 October 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cooney-Cross earned her nod thanks to a stunning goal in Australia\u2019s 2-1 friendly with Germany on 28 October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cooney-Cross marked her 50th appearance for Australia with her first goal when she picked up the ball inside the Germans’ half and unleashed a shot from deep to beat the keeper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jon Ryong Jong | DPR Korea vs Argentina | 2 September 2024<\/strong> Jon found space at the top of the box before launching a screamer into the top right corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Football fans can vote for all of Asia\u2019s contenders at FIFA.com<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three Asian players are in the running for the game’s most prestigious honours, the FIFA Puskas Award and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-6080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1.png",1532,1022,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1-768x512.png",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1-1024x683.png",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1.png",1532,1022,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1.png",1532,1022,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1-825x575.png",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Indonesia_v_Philippines_WCQ_2024_Haye_Ridho__Tjoe-A-On-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Jon Ryong Jong made the cut for her sensational effort in DPR Korea\u2019s 6-2 victory over Argentina in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia on 2 September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n