Mohamed Salah wins Footballer of the 12 months award to match Thierry Henry document

Mohamed Salah has been topped Footballer of the 12 months for the third time after his targets helped fireplace Liverpool to the Premier League title, with Arsenal and England striker Alessia Russo profitable the award for the primary time.

Salah is on the second participant to win a hat-trick of awards from the Soccer Writers’ Affiliation, becoming a member of Arsenal legend Thierry Henry on three wins. Salah received with 90 per cent of the vote, which the FWA mentioned was the largest profitable margin this century.

The Egyptian has scored 28 targets and made 18 assists within the Premier League this season, showing in each sport, as Liverpool received a second title in 5 years underneath Arne Slot.

Salah, who final month prolonged his contract at Liverpool, is on the right track to win a fourth Premier League Golden Boot and is both a aim or help from equalling the document for many aim involvements in a single Premier League marketing campaign.

Salah has 46, one shy of the document held by Alan Shearer and Andy Cole over a 42-game season. His Liverpool team-mate Virgil van Dijk was second with Newcastle striker Alexander Isak third and Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice fourth.

Salah received his first Footballer of the 12 months award in his first season at Liverpool in 2017-18 and received it once more in 2021-22. Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson picked up the prize in 2019-20, the season the Reds received their first title in 30 years.

Henry received the award thrice in 4 years between 2002-03 and 2005-06. Within the final 30 years, Cristiano Ronaldo is the one different Premier League participant to have received the award on a number of events. Salah can also be the favorite to win the Premier League Participant of the Season and Gamers’ Participant of the 12 months awards.

Russo took the ladies’s award from Manchester Metropolis striker Khadija Shaw after scoring 22 targets throughout the Girls’s Tremendous League and Girls’s Champions League this season. The striker helped fireplace Arsenal into the Girls’s Champions League remaining, the place they are going to play Barcelona in Lisbon on Might 24.

Shaw was second with Russo’s Arsenal team-mate Mariona Caldentey third and Chelsea captain Millie Vivid fourth.