Lukaku Clinches Europa League Player Of The Season Award

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By Oyinlola Awonuga (The New Diplomat’s Entertainment, Fashion and Sports Desk)

Belgian football player, Romelu Lukaku has emerged winner of the Europa League player of the 2019/2020 season award.

This is coming after the forward helped Italian side Inter Milan to the final with goals in every knockout round.

Lukaku, who revived his career in Italy with 34 goals in all competitions in his first season at the club, scored seven times in the Europa League in six matches.Lukaku Europa League Player

After Inter Milan dropped down from the UEFA Champions League into the second tier competition.

Inter Milan lost the final match 2-3 to Sevilla of Spain in August, but the 27-year-old forward had done enough to sway the vote in his favour with 270 points.

He beat Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes (128) and Sevilla’s Ever Banega (118) to claim this  prize.

Lukaku in a pre-recorded message after the announcement was made during the Europa League draw said:”First of all, I will like to congratulate Sevilla personally for having won the final tournament.”

“I want to thank my family and my agents for their support. I also want to thank my coach and the club staff, the board, and the president for their trust and for helping me throughout this season.

“Most importantly, I want to thank my team mates, who have been great with me from the first day I joined. They’ve been like brothers to me… Every day I come to training, I come with a smile… they make me want to work harder.”

The vote was made by a jury comprised of coaches from the 48 clubs which participated in the group stages and 55 journalists.

Inter Milan are back in the UEFA Champions League again this season, where they were drawn in Group B alongside 13-times champions Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk and Borussia Moethengladbach.

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