Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns star Hlompho Kekana has failed to make the final candidates list in the running for the Fifa Puskas award.

Kekana missed out on the final list of three contenders after a fan vote decided the candidates.

Brazil continue its historically strong representation in the final three with Marlone’s acrobatic effort, while Venezuela’s Daniuska Rodriguez repeats Stephanie Roche’s 2014 feat in representing the women’s game on the shortlist. Mohd Faiz Subri is also a history-maker, as Malaysia’s first Puskas nominee makes the final cut with his remarkable ‘knuckleball’ free-kick effort.

Corinthians midfielder Marlone’s strike, just his second goal for Timão, had fans of the Brazilian giants off their seats in the Copa Libertadores clash with Chilean side Cobresal. The midfielder recovered a cross that was slightly behind him, chested it into the air and acrobatically volleyed an effort past a despairing Sebastian Cuerdo in the Cobresal goal.

Rodriguez will hope to go one better than Roche’s runners-up spot in 2014 by taking the Puskas Award back to Venezuela for her superb dribbled effort in the Women’s U17 Sudamericano Championship. The 17-year-old worked her way past Sofia Montoya and Manuela Venegas with some intricate footwork, before blasting the ball into the roof of the net.

Malaysia’s first-ever Puskas Award nominee Subri is into the final three after fans were astounded by his physics-defying strike. The free kick, struck from distance out on Penang’s left-hand side, was hit in a ‘knuckleball’ style, producing astonishing swerve and dip that left Pahang’s goalkeeper Mohd Nasril Nourdin no chance.

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