Foxes’ Vardy is Premier League Player of the Season
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LEICESTER City’s England striker Jamie Vardy has been named Premier League Player of the Season after his pivotal role in the club’s remarkable title-winning campaign.
The East Midlands club, which announced the award on Friday, defied the odds to lift its first top-flight crown having begun the season as a 5,000-1 outsider.
The prolific Vardy is also in the race for the golden boot awarded to the league’s top scorer, having netted 24 goals so far, one behind his international teammate Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur with one round of matches remaining tomorrow.
Leicester visits last season’s champion Chelsea, while Spurs travel to relegated Newcastle.
The 29-year-old’s Vardy’s phenomenal form this season led to him winning his first England cap and he is certain to be included on Monday in Roy Hodgson’s squad for next month’s European Championship in France.
Vardy beat Leicester teammates Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kante, Kasper Schmeichel and Wes Morgan, as well as Spurs trio Kane, Dele Alli and Toby Alderweireld, Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil and West Ham United’s Dimitri Payet for the Premier League award.
He was also voted Player of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association and was named in the Professional Footballers’ Association team of the year but Leicester’s Algeria international winger Mahrez won the PFA Player of the Year award.
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