jLeicester City's England striker Jamie Vardy has been named Premier League Player of the Season after his pivotal role in the club's remarkable title-winning campaign.
The
East Midlands club, which announced the award in a tweet on Friday,
defied the odds to lift their first top-flight crown having begun the
season as 5,000-1 outsiders.
Jamie Vardy and his Leicester City teammates defied the odds to win the Premier League
The prolific Vardy is
also in the race for the golden boot awarded to the league's top
scorer, having netted 24 goals so far, one behind his international team
mate Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur with one round of matches remaining to be played on Sunday.
Vardy was rewarded for scoring in record consecutive league (EMPICS Sport)
Leicester visit last season's champions Chelsea, while Spurs travel to relegated Newcastle United.
The
29-year-old's phenomenal form this season led to him winning his first
England cap and he is certain to be included on Monday in Roy Hodgson's
squad for next month's European Championship in France.
Vardy
beat Leicester team mates Riyad Mahrez, N'Golo Kante, Kasper Schmeichel
and Wes Morgan, as well as Spurs trio of Kane, Dele Alli and Toby
Alderweireld; Arsenal's Mesut Ozil and West Ham United's Dimitri Payet
to the Premier League award.
He was also voted
Player of the Year by the Football Writers' Association (FWA), an award
he received at a dinner in London on Thursday attended by manager
Claudio Ranieri.
Vardy was voted Writer's Player of the Year (PA)
Vardy
was named in the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) team of
the year but Leicester's Algeria international winger Mahrez won the PFA
Player of the Year award.
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