(Paris) Kylian Mbappé was topped greatest participant in Ligue 1 on Monday in the course of the UNFP Trophies in Paris, for the fifth consecutive time, earlier than his departure from PSG whose management over these end-of-season awards was solely thwarted by the Brestois Eric Roy, named greatest coach.
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Leo HUISMAN
Agence France-Presse
Mbappé, who performed his final match on the Parc des Princes on Sunday with the Parisian jersey, improves a file he already held: by no means has a participant been extra topped than him with this prize awarded by the gamers’ union (UNFP) since 1994 and whose winners are elected by their friends.
Despite a lackluster season for a participant of his stature, particularly since February and the announcement of his departure from the membership which leaked to the press, Mbappé outclasses the opposite nominees, his teammate Ousmane Dembélé and Brestois Pierre Lees-Melou, actual metronome of the shock workforce of the season, specifically.
“It’s tough, isn’t it? Much greater than which may appear,” defined the participant, referring to his departure from France on the finish of the season, most likely to Real Madrid.
“This is a chapter of my life that can shut. Ligue 1 nonetheless has an vital place in my life. I attempted to do honor, to be the worthy consultant of this championship. I go away with my head held excessive. But I might by no means have been capable of do it with out Monaco, and naturally PSG, the place I rubbed shoulders with distinctive gamers,” he added, thanking all of the members of the membership, with out forgetting neither its president nor the Emir of Qatar, proprietor of PSG, what he did throughout his video formalizing his departure on Friday.
Among all of the information he already has, Mbappé, nonetheless scoring on Sunday regardless of PSG’s defeat at dwelling towards Toulouse (3-1), ought to turn into the highest scorer within the championship for the sixth consecutive yr.
His means, whose feelings are at all times hushed and put within the background in favor of his sporting performances, of leaving an indelible mark on the French championship the place he performed for 9 seasons, two at Monaco and 7 at PSG.
“Today it’s only a 25-year-old man thanking you. In Ligue 1, I at all times had the impression of being beloved and it is a nice feeling,” defined Mbappé, in entrance of his father Wilfrid, on the verge of tears within the viewers.
In addition to Mbappé’s new trophy, the Parisian membership, topped champion of France for the twelfth time in its historical past, has gained nearly the entire rewards awarded by the UNFP.
His younger teammate Warren Zaire-Emery, in a really open class, was named Best Hope of the season, a season that he hopes will final a very long time: “the Euro, the Olympics, the baccalaureate, one other trophy with the membership, there’s nonetheless lots to attain,” he mentioned after receiving his trophy. The Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma was voted greatest goalkeeper.
PSG additionally locations seven gamers among the many eleven in the usual workforce of the season.
Even among the many ladies, Paris stands out, since its Malawian attacker Tabitha Chawinga, high scorer, greatest passer, was topped greatest participant of the D1 season.
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We have completed Chawinga
Eric Roy most well-liked to Luis Enrique
Only the title of greatest coach escaped the capital membership, Brestois Éric Roy having been most well-liked to Luis Enrique.
Roy’s reward will not be usurped: arriving at Brest’s bedside in January 2023, he managed to save lots of the Breton membership from relegation final season, earlier than propelling it, for the primary time in its historical past, to the Coupe d Europe, at the very least within the Europa League, possibly even within the Champions League, a rare efficiency.
Another Brestois, attacking midfielder Kamory Doumbia, obtained the Just Fontaine Trophy for the perfect in L1, awarded by a public vote, for certainly one of his 4 targets scored the identical day towards Lorient in the course of the seventeenth day.
In Ligue 2, Auxerre, already champion and promoted, gained a very powerful prizes, its midfielder Gauthier Hein being topped greatest participant of the season and Christophe Pélissier, greatest coach.
The Stéphanois, nonetheless within the working for a potential return to Ligue 1, had been additionally rewarded with Gautier Larsonneur, elected greatest goalkeeper, and Irvin Cardona, who gained the Just Fontaine Trophy for the perfect aim in Ligue 2 awarded by a public vote .
As for the sport administrators, François Letexier, chosen, with Clément Turpin, to referee the Euro in Germany in June, succeeds himself by being elected greatest referee of the season.
N.1 referee in France, François Letexier, who notably directed the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League between Real Madrid and Manchester City at first of April, was appointed on Monday to direct the ultimate of the Coupe de France between PSG and Lyon, May 25 in Lille.
In the extra awards, on this Olympic yr, a UNFP honorary trophy was awarded to the 1984 French Olympic workforce, gold medal on the Los Angeles Games and that of the citizen participant was awarded this yr to Raphaël Varane “for all of his commitments”.