CURRENT AFFAIRS

2016

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who became the first African footballer to win the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) Player of the Year award for the 2015-16 season
A
Mohamed Salah
B
Sofiane Feghouli
C
Riyad Mahrez
D
Aymen Abdennour
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Leicester City forward Riyad Mahrez has become the first African football player ever to receive the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year award.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mahrez: Well it’s a honour, big honour to be the first African-not the best but the first, so I’m very happy, yeah. Upon hearing he was Africa’s first player to win the honour, there was a look of impossibility on Mahrez’s face.

Detailed explanation-3: -Only three non-European players have won the award: Luis Suárez (Uruguay) in 2013–14, Riyad Mahrez (Algeria) in 2015–16, and Mohamed Salah (Egypt) in 2017–18 and 2021–22.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chelsea’s Eden Hazard has been named the 2015 PFA Player of the Year, beating the likes of Harry Kane and David de Gea to the award.

Detailed explanation-5: -Leicester forward Riyad Mahrez has been crowned PFA Player of the Year for 2015-16. The 25-year-old Algeria international has been instrumental in Leicester’s astonishing surge towards the Premier League title, scoring 17 goals, with 11 assists, in 33 league appearances.

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