Jamaican soccer luminaries Leon Bailey and Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw have been shortlisted for the celebrated CONCACAF Participant of the Yr Awards within the female and male classes, respectively.
Their spectacular performances for each membership and nation in the course of the 2023-24 marketing campaign earned them this recognition.
The nominees for the Confederation Award have been revealed on Tuesday, alongside the opening of fan voting. Gamers have been shortlisted primarily based on their efficiency statistics and insights from soccer consultants. To be eligible, gamers should have competed for a CONCACAF Member Affiliation’s senior nationwide crew in CONCACAF and FIFA competitions and should have performed in a prime division skilled league within the CONCACAF area in the course of the 2023-24 season.
Leon Bailey, 26, had an distinctive season with English Premier League (EPL) membership Aston Villa. His contributions, together with 10 objectives and 9 assists, helped Aston Villa safe a fourth-place end within the league. Regardless of controversies surrounding his worldwide appearances, Bailey’s membership efficiency was enough to earn him a spot on the shortlist. Different nominees within the male class embrace Adalberto Carrasquilla of Panama and Houston Dynamo, Canada’s Jonathan David (Lille), Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich), Mexico’s Santiago Gimenez (Feyenoord), and American Christian Pulisic (AC Milan).
Khadija Shaw’s outstanding achievements
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Khadija Shaw, the Reggae Girlz and Manchester Metropolis striker, had an unforgettable 2023-24 season. She was named the Barclays Women’s Super League (WSL) Participant of the Season and the Soccer Writers’ Affiliation (FWA) Ladies’s Footballer of the Yr. The 27-year-old scored 21 objectives in simply 18 appearances, regardless of her season being lower brief resulting from a damaged leg. Shaw made historical past as the primary participant to attain three WSL hat-tricks in a calendar yr and have become Manchester Metropolis’s file goalscorer in March.
Shaw, who gained the CONCACAF Participant of the Yr award in 2022, is a robust contender once more this yr. Her rivals for the feminine class embrace Charlyn Corral (Mexico, Pachuca Femenil), Melchie Dumornay (Haiti, Olympique Lyonnais), Adriana Leon (Canada, Aston Villa Ladies), Jacqueline Ovalle (Mexico, Tigres Femenil), and Sophia Smith (USA, Portland Thorns).
The winners might be decided via a voting course of involving gamers, coaches, media, and followers. The whole of 100 votes will embrace 41 votes from males’s nationwide crew head coaches, 41 votes from males’s nationwide crew captains, 9 votes from media representatives, and 9 fan votes from the CONCACAF web site. The participant with essentially the most fan votes will obtain 4 votes within the total depend, with the second and third locations receiving three and two votes, respectively. The identical course of applies to the ladies’s award.
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On the finish of the voting interval on August 2, the participant with the very best variety of votes in every class might be named the 2023-24 CONCACAF Males’s and Ladies’s Participant of the Yr.
