Phil Foden has been named the PFA Participant of the Yr for 2024.
Foden’s award signifies that for the primary time since 2010, the Participant of the Yr and Younger Participant of the Yr awards have gone to 2 English gamers.
Wayne Rooney and James Milner had been the final pair to realize that feat.
Foden scored 19 targets in 35 Premier League appearances final season, together with on the ultimate day to assist his facet win a fourth consecutive title.
At 23 years outdated, he’s the youngest participant to have gained six league titles.
He has additionally twice gained the YPOTY award and this yr has been awarded the Premier League Participant of the Season and Soccer Writers’ Affiliation Footballer of the Yr award.
Solely two Englishmen have been named Premier League Participant of the Season, FWA Footballer of the Yr and the PFA Participant’s Participant of the Yr in the identical season:
◎ Wayne Rooney (2009/10)
◉ Phil Foden (2023/24)Better of the very best. pic.twitter.com/Yg5jI8gPHA
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Foden beat the likes of Erling Haaland, Rodri, Martin Odegaard, Palmer and Ollie Watkins to the award.
Talking on the occasion, he stated: “To win this award is one thing very particular and it’s one which I’m very pleased with and grateful for,” stated Foden.
“To be recognised this fashion by your fellow professionals means every little thing and I wish to thank everybody who voted for me.
“Final season was one other very particular one for everybody on the membership, however now all our focus is targeting attempting to realize extra success this time period.”
In the meantime, Manchester Metropolis’s Khadija Shaw and Manchester United’s Grace Clinton gained the respective ladies’s awards.
Shaw, the Participant of the Yr, helped Metropolis to second within the Girls’s Tremendous League, scoring 21 targets in 18 video games.
Clinton, on mortgage at Tottenham final time period, guided Spurs to the FA Cup closing, scoring 4 targets throughout the marketing campaign and including 4 assists.
