New records, new winners during football awards
Winston Reid and Hannah Wilkinson collected mixed honours while Ali Riley and Chris Wood set new annals during New Zealand Football’s 2011 awards cooking hold during Sky City Hamilton on Thursday night.
May 31, 2012
AUCKLAND – Winston Reid and Hannah Wilkinson collected mixed honours while Ali Riley and Chris Wood set new annals during New Zealand Football’s 2011 awards cooking hold during Sky City Hamilton on Thursday night.
West Ham’s Reid, who was ruled out of a All Whites query to urge their OFC Nations Cup pretension with a groin injury, picked adult a Nike Men’s Player of a Year – voted by a cross-section of a football village – and a initial NZPFA Player’s Player of a year endowment – as voted by his teammates.
Swedish formed Ali Riley extended her prevalence of a Nike Women’s Player of a Year endowment winning that difficulty for a fifth time – and fourth in duration – after a WPS-winning deteriorate in a USA. However, Riley and her teammates voted defender Abby Erceg a initial Football Ferns Players’ Player of a Year, recognising her significance to a group in their World Cup year.
Chris Wood’s scoring exploits in a English Championship and League One via 2011 saw a former Hamiltonian turn a initial chairman to win 3 Nike Young Men’s Player of a Year titles, adding another board to those won for a 2008 and 2009 calendar years.
The biggest transport of awards went to Hannah Wilkinson who collected 3 gongs; a Nike Young Women’s Player of a Year and both a ASB Women’s League’s Player of a Year and golden foot trophies following a record idea scoring bid on a domestic front and a breakthrough year with a inhabitant team.
The Young All Whites, who progressed to a knockout stages of a FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico, were resounding winners of a Team of a Year Award, while a exploits of Auckland City’s prevalence during domestic turn in 2011 was recognized with Ramon Tribulietx winning Coach of a Year.
A new village focused set of awards saw 4 winners recognized for their certain impact during a grassroots.
Napier City Rovers recognized with a All Whites Community Impact endowment for a village formed programme delivered to scarcely 7000 children in a Hawke’s Bay, while Wellington’s Island Bay United perceived a Commercial Partnership endowment for building relations with Capital Football and a Wellington City Council that resulted in a new synthetic territory during Wakefield Park.
The untiring work of Caroline Mason in smoothing a approach for a partnership between Cashmere Wanderers and Woolston Technical to form Cashmere Technical was recognized with a Volunteer of a Year endowment while a large village endowment – a ASB Whole of Football Club of a Year – went to Pukekohe for their best use doing of a new youth horizon initiatives.
The time duration lonesome by a awards is a 2011 calendar year with a difference of a 2011/12 ASB Premiership and ASB Women’s League awards.
NZF Awards Winners
NZPFA All Whites Players’ Player of a Year
Winston Reid
Football Ferns Players’ Player of a Year
Abby Erceg
Nike Men’s Player of a Year
Winston Reid (All Whites West Ham United)
Nike Women’s Player of a Year
Ali Riley (Football Ferns Western New York Flash)
Team of a Year
Young All Whites (NZ U-17)
Coach of a Year
Ramon Tribulietx (Auckland City)
Nike Young Men’s Player of a Year (U-20)
Chris Wood (All Whites, West Bromwich Albion, Brighton Birmingham City)
Nike Young Women’s Player of a Year (U-20)
Hannah Wilkinson (Football Ferns Northern Football)
ASB Premiership Player of a Year 2011/12
Chris Bale (Waitakere United)
ASB Women’s Youth League Player of a Year 2011/12
Hannah Wilkinson (Northern Football)
Referee of a Year
Peter O’Leary
Assistant Referee of a Year
Jan-Hendrik Hintz
NZF Merit Award
Peter O’Leary Jan-Hendrik Hintz (for preference to a London Olympics)
Futsal Player of a Year
Dylan Manickum
Outstanding Volunteer Award
Caroline Mason (Cashmere Technical)
All Whites Community Impact Award
Napier City Rovers
Commercial Partnership Award
Island Bay United, Wellington
ASB Whole of Football Club of a Year
Pukekohe AFC, Auckland
NZ Football Media Association Awards Categories
Programme of a Year – Napier City Rovers
Publication of a Year – The Waikato Chronicles, by Bruce Holloway
Writer of a Year – Tony Smith (Christchurch Press)
Regional-Community Writer of a Year – Anendra Singh (Hawke’s Bay Today)
Photographer of a Year – Shane Wenzlick (Phototek)
Radio Broadcaster of a Year – Jason Pine (The Radio Network)
Television Broadcaster of a Year – Gordon Glen Watson (Glenstrae Media)
Jim McMullan Service to Football Award – Dave Maisey