The Blackburn Rovers striker, who is with the national team in Japan for the Kirin Cup, is part of the XI prepared by the Professional Footballers’ Association of England, which on Thursday announced its awards for the 21-22 season .
While with the national team in Japan for the Kirin Cup, Ben Brereton Diaz received further recognition for his outstanding 2021-2022 campaign. The Red forward is part of the Championship team of the year, the second category of English football, prepared by the Association of Professional Football Players (PFA).
The Chilean national team had the best season of their career, with an explosive increase in their goalscoring quota. He finished the wide league in third place in the scoring table with 22 goals (plus three assists) , the same amount as Andreas Weimann of Bristol City and Joël Piroe of Swansea. He was overtaken by forwards in the top two places in the Championship, who secured direct promotion to the Premier League: Serbian Aleksandar Mitrovic of Fulham (43) and England’s Dominic Solanke of Bournemouth (29).
Brereton’s remarkable numbers not only kept Rovers dreaming of a playoff spot, but also enhanced the player’s value. Despite rejoining the Lancashire side, the striker is being sounded out by several British Premier League castings.
The Championship’s ideal eleven consisted of goalkeeper Lee Nicholls (Huddersfield Town); defenders Djed Spence (Nottingham Forest), Tosin Adarabioyo (Fulham), Lloyd Kelly (Bournemouth) and Tim Ream (Fulham); midfielders Philip Billing (Bournemouth), Fabio Carvalho (Fulham) and Harry Wilson (Fulham); and forwards Dominic Solanke (Bournemouth), Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) and Ben Brereton (Blackburn). He is the only representative of a Latin American country.
salah the best
Liverpool’s Egyptian Mohamed Salah has received the PFA Player of the Year award. The ideal team is dominated by the two players who fought for the title. There are six from Liverpool (Alisson, Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Thiago Alcántara, Mo Salah and Sadio Mané) and three from Manchester City (Joao Cancelo, Kevin De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva). The training is completed by Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea, already confirmed at Real Madrid) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United).
In the women’s category, the winner as best female football player was Australian Samantha Kerr from Chelsea.
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Source: Latercera
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