{"id":73714,"date":"2025-08-20T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73714"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:49:22","slug":"salah-sets-record-with-historic-third-pfa-player-of-the-year-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/salah-sets-record-with-historic-third-pfa-player-of-the-year-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah Sets Record with Historic Third PFA Player of the Year Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has made history by winning the Professional Footballers\u2019 Association (PFA), Men\u2019s Player of the Year award for a record third time.<\/p>\n<p>Salah enjoyed a stellar season, scoring 29 goals and registering 18 assists as Liverpool clinched the Premier League title.<\/p>\n<p>He also became the first player to win the Premier League Player of the Season, the Golden Boot, and the Playmaker award in the same campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian star edged a strong shortlist that included Alexis Mac Allister, Bruno Fernandes, Cole Palmer, Alexander Isak, and Declan Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Morgan Rogers was named PFA Young Player of the Year after a breakthrough season, while former England manager Gareth Southgate received the PFA Merit Award for his contributions to English football and success with the national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has made history by winning the Professional Footballers\u2019 Association (PFA), Men\u2019s Player of the Year award for a record third time. Salah enjoyed a stellar season, scoring 29 goals and registering 18 assists as Liverpool clinched the Premier League title. He also became the first player to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73716,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73714\/revisions\/73716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}