Walker was named in the FIFA FIFPRO’s Men’s World 11 alongside teammates Ruben Dias, John Stones, Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland.
Pep Guardiola was honoured as The Best FIFA Men’s Coach while Ederson was named The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper.
These gongs didn’t come as a surprise when you consider the plethora of honours achieved by Guardiola’s side this past year.
City won the Treble of Champions League, FA Cup and Premier League and then added the Super Cup and Club World Cup to the trophy cabinet.
Speaking at the FIFA awards, our captain said: “It’s incredible when you look and you pinch yourself a little bit at what you’ve achieved as a collective.
“I’ve always said this, we’re in a team sport and we went on and won the FA Cup, obviously the Premier League and then the big one was the Champions League which we all wanted to tick off our list.
“It was a fantastic achievement which we can look back for many years to come and say we did it in the way we did as well with good football.
“To get to that FIFA Club World Cup, you have to win the Champions League so we knew once we won the Champions League we had to tick a couple more off the list which was the Super Cup and then going on to win that [FIFA Club World Cup].
“The lads are buzzing because of the badge you can get on the shirt which shows the teams you’re playing, whether it’s Huddersfield in the FA Cup or Newcastle in the Premier League, that we are the best team in the world and rightly so.”
Despite the mass of honours in 2023, Walker stressed he – and the team – are still hungry for more.
The 33-year-old insisted there’s no let-up in our drive and determination to succeed in the major competitions this year.
“It’s always about ‘can you go on and replicate what you did last year?’” added Walker.
“People keep saying to us ‘how do you keep going on winning?’ I think that’s just the mentality we have as a group of players and especially the manager, he’s a big driving force in that.
“We just try and follow his orders. It just shows how dedicated we are to the game, we want to win every competition.
“We are still in, we will call it the big three that you can go on and win.
“We have a tough draw against Tottenham and the Premier League is a big competition this year with obviously Arsenal, who we pipped to the post and Liverpool who are looking really strong this year then the Champions League is, I think, a toss of the coin.
“I think you need a bit of luck in that to win the competition. We are in it to win it and will do our best as we always do.”
