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PFA Young Player of the Year The Professional Footballers' Association Young Player of the Year (often called the PFA Young Player of the Year, or simply the Young Player of the Year) is an annual award given to the player aged 23 or under at the start of the season who is adjudged to have been the best of the season in English football. The award has been presented since the 1973–74 season and the winner is chosen by a vote amongst the members of the players' trade union, the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA). The first winner of the award was Ipswich Town defender Kevin Beattie. The current holder is Dele Alli, who won the award for his performances throughout the 2016–17 campaign for Tottenham Hotspur.
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Dele Alli Bamidele Jermaine Alli (born 11 April 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team.
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Duncan McGregor Duncan McGregor (16 July 188111 March 1947), was a New Zealand rugby union and rugby league footballer. He was a member of the legendary 1905 Original All Blacks and later converted to rugby league when he went on the 1907 New Zealand league tour of Britain and Australia. He stayed in Britain following the 1907–08 tour, and opened a sport store as well as playing for Merthyr Tydfil RLFC. He returned to New Zealand after five years and continued to be involved in rugby league as an administrator and official.
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Adam Polkinghorne Adam William Polkinghorne (born 23 August 1975 in Karoonda, South Australia) is an Australian cricket player, who plays as an all-rounder for the Tasmanian Tigers. He is more of a bowling all-rounder, and his fast-medium deliveries are difficult to score from. As a batsman he is a useful left-handed hitter who likes to slog down the order. As of 2006 he has so far yet to be able to transfer his exploits for club side South Hobart/Sandy Bay Sharks, where his club efforts have seen him named club player of the year four times.
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Ranji Wilson Nathaniel Arthur "Ranji" Wilson (18 May 1886 – 11 August 1953) was an early All Black, rugby football player for New Zealand. He was born in Christchurch of English/West Indian parentage, his father being West Indian.
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Michael Speight Michael Wayne Speight (born 24 February 1962) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A lock, Speight represented Waikato, North Auckland and North Harbour at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1986. He played five matches for the All Blacks, including one international against Australia.
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Franco Parisi (soccer) Franco Parisi (born 3 May 1983 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian footballer.
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Matthew Allwood Matthew Allwood (born 16 November 1992) is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer who previously played for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League. He primarily plays centre and wing.
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Eto Nabuli Etonia Nabuli (born 24 August 1988) is a Fijian-born Australian professional rugby footballer who currently plays rugby union for the Queensland Reds in Super Rugby. He previously played rugby league for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League as a winger, also representing Fiji.
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Denis Pittard Denis Pittard (born 8 December 1945 in Victoria) was an Australian rugby league player, a fine attacking five-eighth of the 1960s and 1970s for the Western Suburbs Magpies, South Sydney Rabbitohs and Parramatta Eels as well as the Australian national representative side. He was known invariably as "The Sneak", "The Phanthom" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel".
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Jordan Foote Jordan Foote (born 2 January 1996) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Sydney Swans with their third selection and fifty-second overall in the 2015 rookie draft. He made his debut in the six point win against Carlton in round 18, 2016 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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Lachie Neale Lachlan "Lachie" Neale (born 24 May 1993) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a small quick player who was a high possession winner at junior level.
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Caleb Binge Caleb Binge (born 29 October 1993) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League. He primarily plays prop.
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Peter Jorgensen Peter Jorgensen (born 30 April 1973) is an Australian-born rugby union and rugby league footballer. Jorgensen was educated at Newington College (1980–86) and St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill.
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Michael Bani Michael Bani (born 3 July 1984 in Thursday Island, Queensland) is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league player. He is currently contracted to the Canberra Raiders and has previously played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the North Queensland Cowboys and the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. He is a full-back who can also play on the wing.
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Tyrone Phillips Tyrone Phillips (born 5 January 1994) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. A Fijian international representative, he plays at fullback, centre and wing.
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Albert Vete Albert Vete (born 24 January 1993) is a New Zealand rugby league player who currently plays for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League. He plays at prop and lock and is a Tongan international representative.
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Lolo Lui Lolo Lui, (born 4 January 1982) is a Samoan rugby union player and the current veteran of the Samoa Sevens, champions of the 2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series. Born and raised in Moata'a, the same village as former All Blacks star Michael Jones and many other famous Samoan Rugby players, such as Taufusi Salesa, Lolani Koko, and Alefaio Vaisuai.
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Denise Gaule Denise Gaule (born 1991) is a camogie player and student. The winner of the Young Player of the Year award of 2009, she played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. She came to public attention during the 2009 All-Ireland semi-final against Galway when she scored three fine points, just one week after helping Kilkenny to yet another All-Ireland Minor title, and her second in the grade. She also holds two All-Ireland Senior colleges medals and won an All-Ireland Intermediate crown of 2008 when she was declared player of the match in the final.
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Daniel Mitwali Daniel Mitwali (born 20 January 1992) is an Australian football player of Syrian descent. He is a defender who is currently playing for Sutherland Sharks FC in the National Premier Leagues.
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Frank Pritchard Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Pritchard is of Samoan and Pakeha New Zealander (Anglo-Saxon New Zealander) descent thus making him eligible for Australia, Samoa and New Zealand . Pritchard played his junior rugby league for the St Clair Comets and Campbelltown City Kangaroos and attended Eagle Vale High School before being signed by the Penrith Panthers.
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Clarrie Tye Clarence Frederick 'Clarrie' Tye (1893–1936) was an Australian rugby league player of the 1910s and 1920s who achieved representative selection for New South Wales.