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Rachel Daly and Erling Haaland win PFA player of the year awards | PFA Player of the Year awards

England and Aston Villa’s Rachel Daly and the Manchester City striker Erling Haaland have gained the Skilled Footballers’ Affiliation gamers’ participant of the yr awards. Chelsea’s Lauren James, Daly’s Lionesses teammate, and Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka have been named because the PFA younger gamers of the yr within the awards voted for by their friends. Daly and James have been key performers for England of their run to the World Cup final earlier this month, however the accolades they acquired on the PFA’s fiftieth anniversary awards occasion in Salford have been primarily based on their performances final season. Saka was voted the boys’s younger participant of the yr after a terrific season for membership and nation, whereas Ian Wright, a star of the membership’s previous, picked up the boys’s PFA Benefit award. Jill Scott, who gained 161 caps for England and retired after the Lionesses gained the Euros final summer time, acquired the ladies’s Benefit award. Daly’s victory within the senior ladies’s participant class got here after she scored 22 objectives within the Ladies’s Tremendous League for Aston Villa final season – a outstanding achievement for a participant who featured at left-back within the Lionesses’ successful…

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