Manchester Town midfielder Phil Foden has been named the Soccer Writers’ Affiliation’s males’s participant of the day, future Town ahead Khadija Shaw gained the ladies’s award.
England global Foden, 23, who has scored 24 objectives in all competitions this season, together with his purpose of their Membership Global Cup ultimate victory, gained 42 consistent with cent of the vote, forward of Arsenal’s Declan Rice and his Town teammate Rodri.
Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard, Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins and Chelsea ahead Cole Palmer made up the residue of the lead six, future Foden turns into the 3rd Town participant within the latter 4 years to win the award, following Erling Haaland’s victory in 2023 and Ruben Dias’s 2021 triumph.
“I’m immensely proud to have won this award,” Foden mentioned. “Now I am focused on seeking to finish the season as strongly as possible and to try to help City win more trophies.”
Town gained each awards for the second one past in 5 years, with Jamaica global Shaw taking the ladies’s award then a season during which she turned into the membership’s all-time chief ladies’s scorer.
Shaw, whose season ended in advance latter generation with a footing trauma, is the Ladies’s Tremendous League lead scorer with 21 objectives, and gained the vote forward of Chelsea’s Lauren James, and Town’s Alex Greenwood. Two extra Town gamers completed within the lead six as Yui Hasegawa got here fourth and goalkeeper Khiara Keating got here 6th, sandwiching Brighton’s Elisabeth Terland.
“I am very proud and privileged to have received this award and to be recognised in this way is a special honour,” mentioned Shaw. “I want to also thank all of my teammates. They provide me with the chances to score goals and I could not have won this award without them.”
Foden and Shaw will obtain their awards at a rite on Would possibly 16. Foden’s Town are 2nd within the Premier League, one level at the back of Arsenal and with a recreation in hand, future Shaw’s aspect are lead of the WSL, with a six-point manage over Chelsea, who’ve performed one recreation much less.
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