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Ndidi, Iheanacho nominated for Leicester best player award

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6 years ago

April 20, 2019

Super Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi and his Nigerian teammate Kelechi Iheanacho have been nominated for Leicester City’ s Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season awards respectively .

Ndidi and Iheanacho ’ s names were among the list of nominees for both categories of the awards released on Leicester City’ s official website on Friday .

Ndidi has won the Young Player of the Season award for the past two seasons following his arrival at the club from Belgian Jupiler League side KRC Genk .

He is a firm favourite for the higher award category this time around following another stellar season with the Foxes .
Ndidi , 22 , has featured in 34 Premier League games this season and scored twice.
None of his goals however made the shortlist for the Goal of the Season award .
Iheanacho on his part , has struggled to make impact at the club this season and risks missing out on a place in Nigeria’ s squad to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt .
He has scored once in 28 league appearances for Leicester City.

Other players in the race for the Young Player of the Season are Demarai Gray , Harvey Barnes , Youri Tielemans , Ben Chilwell , James Maddison , Filip Benković, Çağlar Söyüncü and Hamza Choudhury .
For the Player of the Season award , Ghanaian defender Daniel Amartey, Nampalys Mendy , captain Wes Morgan, Danny Simpson , Rachid Ghezzal , Shinji Okazaki , Harry Maguire , Filip Benković, Matty James , Ricardo Pereira, Adrien Silva and Çağlar Söyüncü were listed.

Others are Hamza Choudhury , Youri Tielemans, Ben Chilwell , Demarai Gray , Marc Albrighton, Danny Ward , Harvey Barnes , Jamie Vardy , Andy King, Kasper Schmeichel , Christian Fuchs, Jonny Evans , Fousseni Diabaté and James Maddison .
The winner of the awards will be announced at the end of the season dinner at the King Power Stadium on May 7 .

Other awards on the night include the Academy Player of the Season, Development Squad Player of the Season, Performance of the Season and Players ’ Player of the Season.