Leicester City forward Riyad Mahrez was on Sunday night named the Premier League Player of the Year by footballers union the Professional Footballers Association.
The Algeria international becomes the first ever African player to win the award.
Mahrez was nomimated along with his teammates Jamie Vardy and N’Golo Kante, Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil, Tottenham’s Harry Kane and West Ham’s Dmitri Payet.
Tottenham’s Dele Alli, England international born to a Nigerian father, was voted Young Player of the Year in his first season in the Premier League.
Alli, 19, was also voted the Football League Young Player of the Year last year, when he was at MK Dons.
“Proud to have won @PFA young player of the year! Thanks to everyone that voted. The hard work doesn’t stop,” an excited Alli tweeted moments after his award.
Manchester United assistant manager Ryan Giggs, who won several Premier League trophies with the club as a player, was honoured with the PFA Merit Award.
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AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, ALL THE 1ST 11 LEICESTER PLAYERS ARE WORTHY OF INDIVIDUAL AWARDS. 4 OF LEICESTER IN THE PFA TEAM OF TE YEAR(WES, KANTE, VARDY, MAHREZ) IS SOMETHING SPECTACULAR IN THE HISTORY OF LEICESTE 2R NOT TO TALK OF THE INDIVIDUAL AWARDS WON BY MAHREZ AND VARDY. SOMETHING IS GING ON IN LEICESTER AND ALL SHOULD BE PART OF IT. IT STILL BUGS MY MIND THAT THEREARE SOME WHO STILL THINK TOTTENHAM WILL COME TO OVERTAKE LEICESTER AND SPOIL THE SHOW. AS OF WHEN I AM WRITING HIS, LEICESTER ARE 8 POINTS ON TOP. BY 10.30 PM, WE WILL KNOW WHETHER IT WILL STILL BE 8 OR 7 OR 5 POINT LEAD DEPENDING ON TOTTENHAM VS WEST BROM MATCH WHICH COULD END IN A LOSS, A DRAW OR A WIN FOR TOTTENHAM. I KNOW TOTTEMHAM ARE PANICKING. NOBODY KNOWS THE FUTURE AND FOOTBALL IS NOT 1+1=2. AFTERALL ARSENAL DREW WITH SUNDERLAND WHO WERE 18TH ON THE TABLE WHEN THEY PLAYED NOW TAKING THEM TO 17TH BCAUSE THAT 0-0 DRAW. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOOOO