Three Juventus players nominated for end of season Serie A awards

Even with the struggles of the last three-plus months, some Juve players have done well on the whole.

With one round of fixtures remaining in the 2023-24 season, this is usually the time in the year when individual honors started to get handed out. And despite Juventus’ struggles for much of the 2024 calendar year, they’ve still received some high-quality play from a few of their top players.

And those players have been recognized for it.

Three Juventus players have made the shortlist for Serie A’s positional awards, it was announced on Tuesday. Juve keeper Wojciech Szczesny made the final three for the goalkeeper of the year, while Bremer and Dusan Vlahovic were named to the shortlist for defender and striker of the year, respectively. (There was technically a fourth Juve player nominated as Matias Soulé, who spent the 2023-24 campaign on loan at Frosinone, was nominated alongside Bologna’s Joshua Zirkzee and Torino’s Raoul Bellanova for the best Under-23 player of the season.)

Award winners will be announced on Friday, May 24, ahead of the final weekend of the season.

Bremer, Serie A’s top defender two years ago, is nominated for the award alongside Bologna’s Riccardo Calafiori — who is very much one of Juve’s top transfer targets this summer — and Inter’s Alessandro Bastoni. Napoli’s Kim Min-jae won the award last season before has later sold to Bayern Munich.

It was also announced Tuesday that Bremer has been nominated for Serie A’s player of the month for May.

Szczesny, who marked his 200th appearance with Juventus in Monday night’s wild 3-3 draw with Bologna, is once again nominated for Serie A’s top goalkeeper. This time around, he’s joined by Monza’s Michele Di Gregorio — who, like Calafiori, is one of Juve’s top transfer targets this summer — and Atalanta youngster Marco Carnesecchi.

Lazio’s Ivan Provedel, who led the league in clean sheets last season, won top honors a year ago.

Vlahovic will enter the final weekend of the season second on the scoring chart behind Inter’s Lautaro Martinez — the odds-on favorite to be named Serie A MVP — with 16 goals. Even if he doesn’t add to his goal total this Sunday against Di Gregorio and Monza, that is already six more goals than he scored all of last season, as he has boosted his goals per-90 total from 0.47 in 2022-23 to 0.63 this year.