{"id":53616,"date":"2023-05-13T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T07:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=53616"},"modified":"2023-05-13T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T07:58:52","slug":"haaland-named-fwa-footballer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2023\/05\/13\/haaland-named-fwa-footballer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland named FWA Footballer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After an outstanding first season in England, Erling Haaland of Manchester City received the renowned Football Writers&#8217; Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year title, it was revealed Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 82% of the voting, Haaland, 22, won the award by a record-breaking margin against Arsenal teammates Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka, who came in second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Kerr of Chelsea became the first player to win the Women&#8217;s Footballer of the Year award twice. The Australian international received twice as many votes as Rachel Daly of Aston Villa, who came in second, and Lauren James of Kerr&#8217;s club, who came in third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In both clubs&#8217; quests to defend their league crowns, Manchester City and Chelsea, respectively, both attackers have been instrumental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Haaland said, &#8220;Winning the Football Writers&#8217; Award in my first season playing English football is an honor. &#8220;I work hard to be the greatest version of myself every day, so it means a lot to me to be recognized in this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an outstanding first season in England, Erling Haaland of Manchester City received the renowned Football Writers&#8217; Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year title, it was revealed Friday. With 82% of the voting, Haaland, 22, won the award by a record-breaking margin against Arsenal teammates Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka, who came in second and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53618,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53616\/revisions\/53618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}