Manchester Metropolis pair Phil Foden and Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw have received their respective Footballer Writers’ Affiliation’s Footballer of the 12 months awards for the 2023/24 season.
It’s the second time that two Man Metropolis gamers have received the boys’s and girls’s awards, with Raheem Sterling and Nikita Parris doing so in 2019.
Foden received 42 per cent of members votes and is the third Man Metropolis participant in 4 years to win the boys’s Footballer of the 12 months award after Ruben Dias in 2021 and Erling Haaland in 2023.
He completed forward of Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice and Man Metropolis team-mate Rodri in second and third respectively. Martin Odegaard, Ollie Watkins and Cole Palmer made up the highest six.
The very best of Phil Foden’s Premier League targets for Manchester Metropolis
Foden, 23, has scored 16 Premier League targets this season, aiding an extra seven. He additionally scored 5 Champions League targets with three assists, and two targets within the FA Cup.
Man Metropolis stay within the chase for a fifth successive Premier League title – at the moment a degree behind Arsenal with a recreation in hand – and can face Manchester United within the FA Cup closing on Could 25.
Shaw has received the ladies’s Footballer of the 12 months award in what was a document variety of votes within the class, with virtually 80 per cent for the Man Metropolis striker and Chelsea’s Lauren James.
The England winger completed as runner-up to Shaw, with Man Metropolis’s Alex Greenwood ending third. Yui Hasegawa, Elisabeth Terland and Khiara Keating made up the highest six.
Check out among the finest targets from Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw
Shaw is the primary Man Metropolis participant to win the award since Parris in 2019, together with her 21 targets and three assists in 18 WSL video games this season placing her crew on the cusp of their first league title since 2016.
They’re at the moment six factors away from Chelsea on the high of the WSL, having performed a recreation extra.
Nevertheless, Shaw has been sidelined for the ultimate three video games of the season after injuring her foot in a 5-0 win towards West Ham.
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