{"id":2068,"date":"2026-09-02T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:20:18","slug":"lamine-yamal-crowned-player-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/lamine-yamal-crowned-player-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal crowned Player of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lamine Yamal was voted Player of the Season by his fellow professionals at a gala where he once again took centre stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lamine Yamal and Patri Guijarro were named the best players of the 2025\/26 season by the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE), in an honour voted on by their peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the 5th AFE Gala, held in Madrid this Tuesday, Yamal was on hand to collect his accolade as the standout player in LaLiga. As reported by FC Barcelona, the winger highlighted just how much it meant to receive recognition from his colleagues: &#8220;There is nothing better than your teammates voting for you&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Spain international also acknowledged that he still has room for improvement, despite the inevitable ups and downs, before outlining his ultimate ambition for the campaign: &#8220;To win the Champions League&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yamal naturally commanded the spotlight following a sensational start to the season for Barcelona. Ahead of the ceremony, the young winger also addressed the media to reflect on his scintillating vein of form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamine Yamal was voted Player of the Season by his fellow professionals at a gala where he once<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}