AIFF Awards 2022: Sunil Chhetri, Manisha Kalyan Receive Highest Honor
Sunil Chhetri was named as the AIFF Men's Footballer of the Year for the seventh time while Manisha Kalyan was picked for her lady honor in the women's class for the 2021-22 season.
On Tuesday, Manisha Kalyan and Sunil Chhetri have been named as the 2021-22 AIFF Best Women's Footballer of the Year and the 2021-22 Men's Footballer of the Year respectively. The two stalwarts were designated as champs by their separate public group mentors Thomas Dennerby, and Igor Stimac.
While Manisha had won the Women's Emerging Footballer of the Year last season, this is the seventh time that Sunil won the honor, having last won it in 2018-19.
On Tuesday, Sunil Chhetri was named as the AIFF Men's Footballer of the Year for the seventh time while Manisha Kalyan was picked for her lady honor in the women's class for the 2021-22 season.
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“Manisha has come up with some outstanding performances for the National Team, and also her club. She has scored goals, and also n assisted on a regular basis. Blessed with excellent speed and being a good dribbler, she has the potential to play in bigger leagues in the future. She’s young, and still developing but has been our best player,” women’s national Team Head Coach Thomas Dennerby said, as reported by AIFF's official website.
Chhetri and Kalyan were selected as the champs by their particular public group mentors Igor Stimac and Thomas Dennerby.
Chhetri, the third most significant standard scorer among dynamic worldwide players, was first named for the honor in 2007. He then, at that point, proceeded to win it in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, and 2018 19 seasons.
As per the official website of AIFF, Sunil, Men’s National Team Head Coach Igor Stimac said, “Sunil was our highest goal-scorer, scoring 5 goals, and also the Player of the Tournament in the SAFF Cup. Furthermore, he led from the front scoring 4 goals in 3 games in the 3rd round of AFC Asian Cup qualifiers in Kolkata. His commitment, leadership, discipline and hard work were impressive throughout bad, and good times.”
