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(L) Harry Kane was voted the PFA
Young Player of the Year, (R) Eden Hazard was voted the PFA Player of the Year
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Tottenham striker Harry Kane capped an "unreal" season on
Sunday evening when he landed the PFA Young Player of the Year award.
The 21-year-old, who has scored 30
goals across all competitions for Spurs this term despite not getting a regular
starting slot until November, picked up the award in the ceremony at the
Grosvenor Hotel in London.
He
was also named in the Professional Footballers' Association's Premier League
team of the year - the only English attacking player to make the XI - and was
second only to Chelsea's Eden Hazard in voting for the main Player of the Year
award.
Press Association report continues:
Kane came through the White Hart
Lane club's youth ranks and was farmed out for loan stints at Leyton Orient,
Millwall, Norwich and Leicester to gain first-team experience.
Meanwhile Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard was the toast of the English game on
Sunday as he carried off the PFA Player of the Year award.
The 24-year-old Belgian has scored
18 goals across all competitions for his club this season, helping the Blues
win the Capital One Cup and putting them on the brink of a first Premier League
title since 2010.
He
was rewarded for his sterling performances with the top individual award of the
night at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. Tottenham striker Harry Kane won the
Young Player of the Year award and was second in the voting for the top prize,
with Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea third.
Victory in their next two games - at
Leicester and at home to Crystal Palace - would see Chelsea wrap up the
championship.
Hazard said of his award success:
" I'm very happy. One day I want to be the best and what I did this season
is play very well, Chelsea played very well.
"I don't know if I deserve to
win but it is good for me.
"It is good, it is better to be
voted by the players - they know everything about football. This is good. I'm
very happy."
He took the Young Player of the Year
prize 12 months ago, and has rapidly progressed to the top award.
"We are almost champions, maybe
this is the key," said Hazard. " Last season we finished third and
this season we have an opportunity to win the league. This has changed from
last season.
"I continue like I did last
season - I try to be the same. I try to score more goals than last season.
Personally I have played a good season, I have been there in the big games and
I scored a lot of important goals, this is why I'm better this season."
Hazard's goal last weekend earned
Jose Mourinho's men a 1-0 win over Manchester United.
He picked out that moment as one of
his best of the campaign.
Asked to describe his season in a
single word, Hazard struggled "I don't want to say 'amazing'
because it is not finished yet - maybe amazing!" he said.
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