India’s Manpreet Singh and the Netherland’s Eva de Goede have been picked as the FIH Men’s and Women’s Player of the Year respectively.
Manpreet is the first member of the India national hockey team to win the award since the awards were introduced in 1999. The midfielder won the accolade ahead of Belgium’s Arthur van Doren and Lucas Vila of Argentina, who finished second and third respectively.
Manpreet has enjoyed a long career in the national squad since he made his debut in 2011. Now, with more than 260 appearances under his belt, Manpreet is leading his team in a new adventure as India competes in the FIH Hockey Pro League.
In 2019, as captain, Manpreet Singh led his team to victory in the FIH Olympic Qualifiers, thus securing a spot at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Manpreet represented India at London 2012 and Rio 2016.
As for de Goede, who named she took the award ahead of Argentina’s Carla Rebecchi and Janne Müller-Wieland of Germany, who finished second and third respectively. It was the midfielders second consecutive award.
The Dutch captain made her debut in
2006. In 2018, de Goede was part of the team that won the Women’s World Cup and
just a few months later she was voted Player of the Tournament at the last
Hockey Champions Trophy in China.
Last year de Goede continued her fine form, as she led her team to victory in
the inaugural FIH Hockey Pro League and then gold at the EuroHockey
Championships.
Over a career spanning 14 years, 30-year-old de Goede has played more than 230 matches for the Netherlands and has two Olympic gold medals (Beijing 2008 and London 2012), two World Cup gold medals and three Champions Trophy gold medals to her name.
Vote results:
MEN
1st place: Manpreet Singh (IND)
- 53% of all National Association votes
- 19.5% of all Media votes
- 15.1% of all Fans / Players votes
- 35.2% of all combined votes
2nd place: Arthur van Doren (BEL)
- 19.7% of all National Association votes
- 22.1% of all Media votes
- 17.4% of all Fans / Players votes
- 19.7% of all combined votes
3rd place: Lucas Vila (ARG)
- 10.6% of all National Association votes
- 2.6% of all Media votes
- 42.1% of all Fans / Players votes
- 16.5% of all combined votes
WOMEN
Vote results:
1st place: Eva de Goede (NED)
- 46.9% of the National Associations votes
- 21.3% of the Media votes
- 19.1% of the Fans / Players votes
- 33.5% of all combined votes
2nd place: Carla Rebecchi (ARG)
- 20.3% of the National Associations votes
- 24% of the Media votes
- 50.7% of the Fans / Players votes
- 28.8% of all combined votes
3rd place: Janne Müller-Wieland (GER)
- 14.1% of the National Associations votes
- 9.3% of the Media votes
- 9.4% of the Fans / Players votes
- 11.7% of all combined votes
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