Gianluigi Donnarumma has been named the 2025 FIFA The Best Men’s Goalkeeper, claiming the honour for the first time in his career.
FIFA announced the award on Tuesday, recognising the Italian’s outstanding performances during a trophy-laden season with former club Paris Saint-Germain.
Donnarumma played a decisive role in PSG’s UEFA Champions League triumph, keeping a clean sheet in their emphatic 5–0 victory over Internazionale in the final on 31 May 2025. He also delivered a series of commanding displays throughout the knockout stages.
On the domestic front, the 26-year-old helped PSG secure Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and the Trophée des Champions.
The goalkeeper further featured in the squad that finished runners-up at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025.
Now plying his trade with Premier League giants Manchester City, Donnarumma finished ahead of fellow nominees Alisson Becker, Thibaut Courtois, Emiliano Martínez, Manuel Neuer, David Raya, Yann Sommer and Wojciech Szczęsny.
His key achievements during the assessment period include winning the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League, Ligue 1 and Coupe de France, lifting the 2024 Trophée des Champions, finishing runner-up at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, and earning a place in the UEFA Champions League Team of the Season.
The winner was determined from a shortlist compiled by a panel of experts, based on performances between August 11, 2024, and August 2, 2025.
Votes were cast by men’s national team coaches, captains, football journalists and fans on FIFA’s official website.
Each voting group accounted for 25 per cent of the final result, with nominees receiving points for first, second, and third-place selections.
The goalkeeper with the highest total points was declared the winner, with tie-breaks decided by the number of first-choice votes from national team captains.
Donnarumma was previously a runner-up for the FIFA THE BEST GOALKEEPER award in 2021.
YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul is back in action on Friday night when he faces the biggest test of his career against two-time unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
Joshua will start as the huge favourite in this one, despite not having fought for more than a year and after taking a break from boxing.
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For Paul, this bout – more than the rest of his previous fights combined – will go a long way to convincing supporters and sceptics alike whether the brash-talking social media star is a genuine world-class contender or nothing more than an overhyped pretender.
Here’s what you need to know in advance of Paul vs Joshua:
What is the date and start time for the Paul vs Joshua fight?
The fight is scheduled for Friday, December 19.
Paul and Joshua are expected to undertake their ring walks at 10:30pm local time (03:30 GMT Saturday). The fight will begin shortly thereafter.
Where is Paul vs Joshua being held?
The heavyweight contest will be staged at the Kaseya Center in Miami, United States.
The venue is home to the three-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Miami Heat and can hold up to 20,000 spectators for boxing matches.
How to watch and follow Paul vs Joshua?
Al Jazeera’s live text commentary and photo coverage of the fight night will begin at 23:30 GMT on Friday, December 19. We will bring you all the pre-fight talking points, analysis and build-up before bringing you round-by-round Paul-Joshua updates live.
This whole fight card will be available live worldwide exclusively on Netflix. All Netflix subscribers can stream the event at no extra cost.
What are the betting odds?
Joshua has a substantial height and weight advantage – and his professional fighting resume is far superior – making the Briton the overwhelming bookie’s favourite to win the fight.
Odds via FanDuel (subject to change) offer the following money lines, suggesting a Joshua win as a near-certainty:
Jake Paul to win: +700
Anthony Joshua: -1300
Anthony Joshua, right, stands head and shoulders above Jake Paul with the bookies [File: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images via AFP]
What is the fight purse?
Figures vary, but it appears both fighters are in for the largest payday of their careers.
It was initially reported that Paul and Joshua would evenly split a whopping $184m fight purse.
Paul has since claimed on social media that the fight will actually be worth a staggering $267m, but has provided no evidence to back up that inflated figure.
Why hasn’t Joshua fought in more than a year?
It will be Joshua’s first bout since a brutal fifth-round knockout loss against fellow Englishman Daniel Dubois in September 2024.
In the past 14 months, the 36-year-old Joshua also underwent elbow surgery and took time off the sport to recover and recharge mentally and physically.
Why didn’t Paul fight Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis?
Paul’s November 14 exhibition boxing match against WBA world lightweight champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis was scrapped on November 4 after it emerged that a civil lawsuit had been filed against Davis in Miami-Dade County in late October.
The scheduled fight had drawn significant global interest due to the novelty of the matchup that pitted the much-larger Paul against Davis, who fights at the 135-pound (61kg) weight limit.
The November 2025 fight that never happened: Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, left, and Jake Paul [File: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images]
Who is Jake Paul?
Paul, 28, is from Westlake, Ohio where he and his older brother Logan shot to fame through social media. Jake began his career posting videos on the online platform Vine in September 2013 and had amassed 5.3 million followers and 2 billion views before the app was discontinued, according to reports.
Paul is 6-feet, 1-inch tall (1.85m) and normally fights at the cruiserweight – or junior heavyweight – division. The weight class limit for the division is listed at 200 pounds (91kg).
The American enters this fight off the back of his last successful bout against former world middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in June, which he won by unanimous decision.
Before that, he shot to worldwide fame in November 2024 when he prevailed in a decision victory over legendary heavyweight Mike Tyson, who was 58 at the time and was a shadow of his former self.
Who is Anthony Joshua?
Anthony Joshua is a 6-feet, 6-inch tall (1.98m) boxer from Watford, just outside London, England.
Under the parameters of the bout, Joshua, who historically has weighed in at about 250 pounds (113kg) for past heavyweight fights, will be limited to no more than 245 pounds (111kg) against Paul.
Joshua is a two-time unified heavyweight world champion. He held the unified titles (WBA, IBF, WBO) at the following time periods: April 2016 to June 2019, when he won the IBF belt and unified it, losing them to Andy Ruiz Jr; and again from December 2019 to September 2021, after winning the rematch against Ruiz Jr. before losing to current heavyweight world champion, Oleksandr Usyk.
Anthony Joshua unleashes a huge right hand against Andy Ruiz Jr during their unification fight for the IBF, WBA, WBO & IBO World Heavyweight titles at Diriyah Arena, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia on December 7, 2019 [Andrew Couldridge/ Action Images via Reuters]
What’s Paul’s fight record?
Paul began professional bouts in 2020, and his pro fight record is 12-1.
His only loss came in February 2023, when he lost to Tommy Fury, the brother of former heavyweight world champion Tyson.
What’s Joshua’s fight record?
The 36-year-old’s fight record is 28-4. Joshua has fought several famous heavyweights, including Usyk, Dubois and Wladimir Klitschko.
He is eight years older than Paul and has more than double the number of career professional fights than his opponent.
What has Paul said about the fight?
Paul has predicted the bout will end via a knockout victory in the fifth round.
“I’m here to go out there and shock the world,” Paul said. “I know what I’m capable of. People say, ‘Oh, he’s out of his mind.’ I’ve gotten to where I am today because of delusional optimism. No one thinks I’m going to win, so join the list and be ready to be shocked.”
“He’s one of the best heavyweights ever,” Paul added. “But I believe that fighting a smaller man is often times harder for a heavyweight because of the speed difference and because of the foot speed, because of the angles. All that power is great. I just have to avoid that one shot. I believe that I can do that. I know I can pick him apart and score points.”
What has Joshua said about the fight?
Despite being the odds-on favourite for victory, Joshua says he is approaching the eight-round contest seriously.
“You can’t underestimate anyone. I’m going to take him seriously,” Joshua said. “After a year out, I’ve realigned a lot in my life. I got my focus back to where it needs to be.”
Joshua, who has 25 career KOs as a pro, acknowledged that anything short of a quick knockout win will be perceived as additional erosion of his standing among the elite heavyweights.
“I’ve seen it. I’ve heard it,” he added. “As I said to Jake respectfully, I need to cut him up. I need to break him up, and I need to hurt him. That’s just what we do.”
Who is fighting in the co-main event?
In the co-main event, it will be an all-North American women’s matchup with Alycia Baumgardner of the United States putting two of her three World super featherweight titles (IBF, WBO) on the line against Canadian challenger Leila Beaduoin.
Baumgardner, aka “The Bomb”, hasn’t been defeated since 2018 and will start as the strong favourite in the eighth title match of her professional career.
Beaduoin, who is riding a four-fight winning streak, will need to be at her all-time best to upset the champ on Friday.
Alycia Baumgardner (pictured) will defend her undisputed junior lightweight titles against Leila Beudoin [File: Vincent Carchietta/Imagn Images via Reuters]
Full undercard
Main card (From 8pm | 01:00 GMT on Saturday)
Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua – heavyweight (8x3min rounds)
Alycia Baumgardner vs Lela Beaudoin – IBF & WBO super-featherweight world titles (12x3min rounds)
Anderson Silva vs Tyron Woodley – cruiserweight (6x3min rounds)
Jahmal Harvey vs Kevin Cervantes – featherweight (6x3min rounds)
Preliminary card (From 4.45pm | 21:45 GMT on Friday)
Cherneka Johnson vs Amanda Galle – undisputed bantamweight title (10x2min rounds)
Yokasta Valle vs Yadira Bustillos – WBC strawweight world title (10x2min rounds)
Avious Griffin vs Justin Cardona – welterweight (8x3min rounds)
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes told Portuguese media the Premier League club had wanted to sell him this summer after receiving interest from Saudi Arabia.
But the 31-year-old claimed manager Ruben Amorim still had him in his plans and that convinced him to stay at Old Trafford.
“My passion and empathy for the club were the same, but there comes a point where money becomes more important to them than you,” Fernandes told Canal 11, a channel owned by the Portuguese Football Federation, on Monday.
“The club wanted me to leave. I said it to the directors and I think they didn’t have the courage to make that decision because the coach wanted me.
“But if I had said I wanted to leave, even if the coach wanted me to stay, the club would have let me go.”
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Fernandes, who has 103 goals in 307 appearances for Man Utd in all competitions since arriving in 2020, was also reportedly hurt by the club hierarchy’s willingness to part ways with him.
“The feeling I got from the club was, ‘if you leave, it’s not so bad for us’. That hurt me a little,” he said, according to comments reported on the website of Portuguese sports daily A Bola.
The playmaker said he had considered a move to Saudi Arabia, following in the footsteps of compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo who made the move to the kingdom in 2023 after his acrimonious departure from Old Trafford.
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC), led by Tanimu Turaki, on Tuesday held a meeting with former governors and ministers elected and appointed on the platform of the party.
The meeting forms part of a series of consolidation engagements scheduled by the Turaki-led leadership to rally support from influential party stakeholders following the November 15 and 16 national elective convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Among those in attendance were former Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, and former Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, alongside several former ministers, many of whom served during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
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The engagement comes amid growing concerns within the party over recent defections of some elected officials to rival political parties, developments that have further weakened the PDP’s political standing in several states.
The Ibadan convention itself was preceded by legal challenges, after an Abuja court initially halted the exercise before a subsequent ruling allowed it to proceed.0+32
However, the outcome of the convention has remained contentious, with some party chieftains dismissing it as “lacking legal standing.”
The convention also deepened internal divisions within the PDP, including disputes over the reported expulsion of senior figures, moves that have been contested by opposing factions.
These developments have contributed to the party’s ongoing leadership crisis and heightened internal tensions.
The party’s recent meeting also comes against the backdrop of a series of high-profile defections that have unsettled the Peoples Democratic Party over the past year.
Several governors elected under the PDP have resigned and joined other political parties, including Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah, who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in October 2025; Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri, who resigned from the PDP and joined the APC in November 2025.
Akwa Ibom State Governor Umo Eno, who moved to the APC in June 2025; and Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, who defected to the APC in April 2025.
In addition, Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke resigned from the PDP in November 2025 and has since joined the Accord Party.
Celebrity Traitors star Ruth Codd stayed true to her trademark dark humour as she gave her fans a health update after having her left leg amputated below the knee
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The 29 year old shared her latest health setback on her social media while staying true to her trademark dark humour(Image: CREDIT LINE:BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
Celebrity Traitors star Ruth Codd has opened up about her health with fans after having her second leg amputated – after previously having her right leg amputated below the knee.
The 29 year old shared her latest health setback on her social media while staying true to her trademark dark humour. She shared a selfie holding her middle finger up to the camera along with the caption: “After a brief hiatus, world domination and winding up middle aged white men shall resume as of 10am. New legs loading.”
It comes after she announced on TikTok she had undergone the surgery last month where she updated her followers from a wheelchair, which she nicknamed ‘Fat Tony’.
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She said: “Hi guys, so I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we’ve had a full circle moment and I’m back making TikTok content in my parents’ house. The bad news is that I can’t do it in front of that lovely, floral blue wallpaper anymore due to the fact that that room is upstairs and I’ve just had my second below knee amputation.”
She continued: “So unfortunately, those facilities are not available to me at the current moment in time.”
The surgery comes after Ruth injured her foot and suffered severe nerve damage while playing football when she was a teenager which left her with mobility issues as well as chronic pain. She had her right leg amputated below the knee when she was 23 and previously opened up on the experience with Teen Vogue.
She told the publication: “At that age, you think you’re unstoppable, and it was a lot of having to learn a bit too young that sometimes life doesn’t really work out the way you thought it would. But I wouldn’t change it. It made me a really resilient person. I’m thankful for just being able to do simple things like walk around or go on a bike or ride my horse. It kind of teaches you to not take things for granted.”
Ruth recently appeared on the Under Your Skin podcast with Grace Neutral where she opened up more on why she had her first surgery.
The singer explained that she was on ‘crutches for eight years’ and her joints became damaged because she always walked on her ‘tippy-toes’.
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She said: “I’ve already had to have all my toes amputated, and so I have no toes and so my foot looks like a little hamburger. So with the second one, it’s just the same situation. It was just my quality of life and it’s never going to get any better from this point so they can only really stop it from getting worse.
“The amount of health problems and stuff I’ve had this past year – I haven’t let it stop me from doing anything but I feel like it has hindered me and made my ability to do my job more difficult. I’ve been through it once before, so I think with two prosthetics I’ll be pretty unstoppable.”
Former Ex On the Beach star Charlotte Dawson has issued a lengthy statement following her surprise split from fiance Matt Sarsfield, admitting to her fans that it was ‘time’
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Influencer Charlotte Dawson has issued an unexpected update after her relationship U-turn(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Reality star Charlotte Dawson has revealed that she is ‘‘stepping away’ indefinitely from her hit podcast Naughty Corner, which she launched last year, after her alleged split from fiancé Matt Sarsfield. The shock split came after a rollercoaster few weeks for the 33-year-old mum-of-three, which saw her reportedly break up with her other half following a furious row at a party – then do a U-turn and get back together with him, just days later.
In a statement, the former Ex On the Beach star, daughter of late comedian Les Dawson, revealed that it was the “right time” to take a step back from the no-holds-barred weekly parenting pod, in which she would often reveal hilarious and candid updates on family life.
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She wrote in a lengthy statement on Instagram: “After an incredible year and more than a million downloads, we’ve decided it’s time to pause the podcast for now.
“With life being especially busy at the moment (kids, chaos and everything in between) this feels like the right moment to take a breather.”
She added: “Naughty corner has been a place where I’ve shared my life and parenting journey, and it’s also been a place where your stories, whether beautiful, bonkers or everything in between, have lifted me up.
“A huge thanks to my partner in crime Janine for being by my side every step of the way and to all the fab guests that have joined me this year! Thank you for being here and for supporting the pod my darlings. CD x”
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Charlotte and her partner had split up after an explosive argument during a glam night out – but the pair made up a matter of days later.
A source claimed to the Sun at the time that Charlotte was “apprehensive” about walking down the aisle with Matt, given the ups and downs of their five-year engagement so far – though, they went on to claim, they always ‘kiss and make up’.
The recent ‘split’ was actually the second time the couple, who have been together for nine years, decided to part ways. Last August, they separated temporarily after Charlotte found messages to other women on rugby star Matt’s phone.
At the time, a clearly devastated Charlotte admitted to her social media followers, “My head feels like it is going to fall off. I feel drained, fed up, up and down like a bloody yo-yo but yeah.”
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But the pair managed to get back on track and in June of this year, the 32-year-old influencer opened up to the Mirror about when she might eventually tie the knot.
“Maybe when it gets a bit easier with the kids. I’d love Gigi to walk down the aisle in a little dress, so I think I might have to wait. I’m gonna have to anyway. I can’t start planning a wedding now – Jesus, I can’t even sort my own life out!”
