Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has been named the PFA Gamers’ Participant of the Season for the second time after beating Manchester Metropolis’s Kevin De Bruyne to the award.
Chelsea striker Sam Kerr received the ladies’s award whereas Manchester Metropolis duo Phil Foden and Lauren Hemp retained their Younger Participant of the Yr crowns from final season.
Salah scored 23 Premier League objectives final marketing campaign, sharing the golden boot with Tottenham’s Son Heung-Min, as Liverpool completed runners-up to Manchester Metropolis.
The Egyptian, who was beforehand voted Gamers’ Participant of the Season in 2018, additionally received the Soccer Writers’ award this season whereas De Bruyne picked up the Premier League Participant of the Season prize.
“It’s an ideal honour to win a trophy, particular person or collective and this one is large so, very blissful and really pleased with that,” Salah stated. “This one is a extremely good one to win, particularly as a result of it’s voted by gamers.”
Salah additionally turns into considered one of seven gamers to win the boys’s Gamers’ Participant of the Season award for a second time, becoming a member of De Bruyne, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer and Mark Hughes.
Australian striker Kerr scored 20 Ladies’s Tremendous League objectives in as many video games final season to retain the golden boot as Chelsea received a 3rd consecutive league title. In successful the Gamers’ award, Kerr has accomplished a clear sweep of particular person prizes after additionally successful the Soccer Writers’ and WSL Participant of the Season.
‘Large honour’: Sam Kerr
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“It’s a large honour I feel, everytime you’re voted by your friends,” Kerr stated. “I feel that’s the best honour as a participant so, it’s a tremendous feeling.”
Foden, in the meantime, has now retained each Gamers’ Younger Participant of the Season and Premier League Younger Participant of the Season prizes after the 22-year-old helped Metropolis to the Premier League title.
Hemp is now a four-time PFA Gamers’ Participant of the Season winner after reaching double figures in WSL objectives for the primary time this season.
Salah, Kerr and Hemp had been additionally included within the respective Premier League and WSL Groups of the Season.
