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Manchester United Ladies captain Maya Le Tissier has been nominated for the Barclays’ Ladies’s Tremendous League Participant of the 12 months award.
The 23 yr previous joined the Purple Devils in 2022 from Brighton and Hove Albion.
She had a formidable opening marketing campaign on the Leigh Sports activities Village, being named within the 2023 PFA WSL Crew of the 12 months.
The Guernsey-born defender was additionally given Younger Participant of the 12 months honours on the 2024 Ladies’s Soccer Awards.
Le Tissier rapidly developed into one of many membership’s most common performers and supervisor Marc Skinner challenged her to develop into “one of many world’s finest” in her place at first of this season.
The centre again was given the honour of captaining the facet at first of the season after the departure of Katie Zelem and she or he has not regarded again.
Consequently, the membership’s official web site studies that Le Tissier has been nominated for the distinguished Participant of the 12 months award.
The positioning studies, “the popularity of Maya is nicely deserved, on the finish of her first season as captain of Manchester United Ladies.”
Le Tissier has been a giant purpose behind United’s imply defence that has stored an excellent 13 league clear sheets.
The United star is up in opposition to Chelsea’s Sandy Baltimore and Aggie Beever-Jones. She additionally faces competitors from Arsenal’s Mariona Caldentey and Alessia Russo.
Shekiera Martinez (West Ham United), Mary Fowler (Manchester Metropolis), Kiko Seike (Brighton) and Olivia Smith (Liverpool) are additionally within the combine for the award.
Le Tissier spoke of her delight at United qualifying for the Champions League with a 2-2 draw with Manchester Metropolis on the weekend.
After the match she claimed, “we’re so collectively, actually – I really feel like we’re unbreakable at instances”.
The 23 yr previous might be seeking to raise her first trophy as captain when the Purple Devils journey to Wembley on Sunday 18th Might to face Chelsea within the closing of the FA Cup.
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