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Detailed explanation-1: -UPSC Mains. Q. Who has been granted the 2021 Global Goalkeeper Award? Notes: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, as the winner of the 2021 Global Goalkeeper Award.

Detailed explanation-2: -Radhika Batra of India, Zahra Joya of Afghanistan, Vanessa Nakate of Uganda, and Ursula von der Leyen of Germany are recognized for their extraordinary work towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Detailed explanation-3: -“For the second time after 2018, Belgium’s and Real Madrid Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois is the winner of IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper 2022 Award!” IFFHS announced on their website.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ‘Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards’ were conferred in New York’s Lincoln centre on Tuesday in recognition of the work done by the “four remarkable changemakers” to advance progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their communities and around the world, the foundation said.