PFA Players' Player of the Year

This award is like being crowned the best player in England, but it's not chosen by grown-ups or fans. Nope! It's the soccer players themselves who get to vote for who they think was the absolute best that year. It's like if your classmates voted for who was the best at kickball during recess. Pretty cool, right?

This amazing award started a long, long time ago, back in the 1973-74 soccer season. The very first player to win this special prize was a defender named Norman Hunter. He played for a team called Leeds United. Imagine being the first one ever to get this awesome trophy – that's a big deal!

Some players are so amazing, they've won this award more than once! Mohamed Salah is a super-duper star who has won it three times. That's like getting the highest score on a video game three times in a row! Only a few other players have won it twice, and even fewer have won it two years in a row.

Players say this award is super important because it means their friends, the other players they play against every week, think they are the best. It's like getting a gold star from everyone in your class! They feel it's the ultimate compliment when their rivals vote for them.