Martens named 2016/17 Women’s Player of a Year
Dutch star Lieke Martens has been named UEFA Women’s Player of a Year for a 2016/17 season.
The 24-year-old Barcelona forward, who recently helped the Netherlands to win UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 on home soil and aided RosengÃ¥rd to a UEFA Women’s Champions League quarter-finals, perceived a endowment during a rite during a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre pull in Monaco on Thursday.Â
She finished forward of her associate shortlisted candidates – Wolfsburg and Denmark striker Pernille Harder and Olympique Lyonnais and Germany playmaker Dzsenifer Marozsán – in a check of a 16 UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 coaches and a 8 who led teams in a UEFA Women’s Champions League quarter-finals, together with 20 reporters specialised in women’s football and comparison by a European Sports Media (ESM) group.
“This is so amazing,” pronounced Martens after receiving a award. “It’s a large honour. I’m unequivocally proud, though we couldn’t grasp this but my team-mates. I’m speechless!”
Martens, named by UEFA as actor of a contest during Women’s EURO after scoring 3 goals in a Netherlands’ impetus to a European crown, perceived 95 points in a poll, with Harder (81 points) and Marozsán (47 points) finishing second and third respectively.
The UEFA Women’s Player of a Year endowment is formed on players’ performances during a 2016/17 deteriorate in all competitions, both domestic and international, and during bar and inhabitant group levels.
Martens, innate in Nieuw-Bergen in a south of a Netherlands, began her bar career with Heerenveen and went on to play for Venlo, Standard Liège, Duisburg, Göteborg and RosengÃ¥rd before fasten Barcelona only before to UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 carrying scored 8 times in 11 Swedish joining games this year.
She has found a net 33 times in 80 appearances for a Netherlands after creation her entrance in 2011, and also took partial in a 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada, scoring her country’s first-ever idea in a competition’s finals as a Dutch reached a turn of 16. She subsequently struck in their 4-2 final better of Denmark during UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 progressing this month, her third idea of a tournament.
Final standings
1: Lieke Martens (Netherlands, Rosengård and Barcelona)
2: Pernille Harder (Denmark, Linköping and Wolfsburg)
3: Dzsenifer Marozsán (Germany, Lyon)
4: Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands, Bayern München and Arsenal)
5: Eugénie Le Sommer (France, Lyon)
6: Wendie Renard (France, Lyon)
7: Jackie Groenen (Netherlands, FFC Frankfurt)
8: Lucy Bronze (England, Manchester City and Lyon)
9: Jodie Taylor (England, Arsenal)
10: Shanice outpost de Sanden (Netherlands, Liverpool)
Previous winners of a award:
2012/13 ─ Nadine Angerer (Germany, FFC Frankfurt)
2013/14 ─ Nadine Kessler (Germany, Wolfsburg)
2014/15 ─ Célia Šašić (Germany, FFC Frankfurt)
2015/16 ─ Ada Hegerberg (Norway, Lyon)
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