Event class: player, year, season, named, award, best, awarded, year award, voted, team

Events with high posterior probability

Nicolas Anelka	For this, he was awarded with a Golden Boot Award on 14 November 2008 and was in the running for the end of season Golden Boot accolade.
Johnny Coen	Coen's performances throughout the 2012 Championship were widely regarded as outstanding and he was rewarded with the 2012 Young Hurler of the Year Award in October 2012.
Jacques Rudolph	In 2008, Rudolph was awarded the Players' Player, and fans' Player of the Year awards for Yorkshire.
Martin Kelly	On 8 March 2011, Kelly won the Liverpool February player of the month award.
Ciar?n Whelan	He was nominated for an all-star for his 2006 performances in Midfield with Dublin.
George Best	In 1968 he won the European Cup with United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year.
Luke Burgess (rugby league)	At the end of the 2008 season, Burgess became the inaugural winner of the Albert Goldthorpe Rookie of the Year Award, presented by the leading trade newspaper, Rugby Leaguer & League Express.
Alan Shearer	His efforts for the club led to Shearer being awarded the PFA Players' Player of the Year for 1995.
Michael Essien	On 10 October 2007, he was nominated for the prestigious 2007 FIFA World Player of the Year Award for the third consecutive year and on 21 October 2007 Essien was also francefootball.
Sam Sodje	At the end of that season he won a local newspaper award for player of the season, and at the end of the 2005 -- 06 season he was honoured with a place in the PFA League One team of the year.
Garry Schofield	In 1991 Schofield won the Man of Steel Award for player of the season.
Nick Powell	In January 2012, Powell was awarded the Football League's Young Player of the Month Award for December.
Ger O'Meara	He received a Dublin Hurling Blue Star award for his performances for O'Tooles in 2004.
Francis Collin	He was named Tonbridge Angels player of the year for the 2011 -- 12 season and won the Golden Boot for the Conference South in the same season with 29 league goals.
Bengt Gustavsson	In 1953 Gustavsson was awarded the Guldbollen, the Golden Ball as Swedish footballer of the year.
Trent Barrett	Barrett was the stand-out player of the 1998 Illawarra Steelers season, top scoring with 18 tries and winning the BHP Medal as player of the year.
Jakob Silfverberg	Silfverberg was named the winner of the Guldhjälmen award, as the most valuable player (MVP) voted by the players in Sweden's Elitserien (SEL) for the 2011 -- 12 regular season, and Guldpucken as player of the year in Sweden.
Rocky Elsom	In 2010 Elsom was named at blindside flanker in a European dream team by the ERC to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Heineken Cup, this came despite him only spending one season with Leinster such was his impact during the tournament that year.
Liam Hearn	On 24 April 2012 Hearn was voted'' Supporters Player of the Year'' award, also taking five other minor awards.
Wayne Bridge	Bridge was rewarded by being voted the Southampton Player of the Year for the 2000 -- 01 season.
Andy Dawson	He was named Hull City's Player of the Year in the 2006 -- 07 season.
Clayton Zane	In the 2001 season, he was the top scorer and awarded the Kniksen award as Striker of the Year in Norway.
Mike O'Donoghue	He was awarded the award of Munster Junior Footballer of the year in 2010.
Steven Davis	Davis was named'' Young Player of the Year'','' The Fans Player of the Year'' and'' Player of the Year'' for the 2005 -- 06 season after making 42 appearances during the season.
Juan Maldonado Jaimez	After being voted one of the best players in the Brazilian Série A 2007, Juan received the second place prize Bola de Prata (Silver Ball) award for best left back awarded by Revista Placar, a prestigious Brazilian football magazine.
Jamie Burke (rugby union)	After the 2010 World Cup, Burke received several awards including IRB World Cup Dream Team, Team of the Year and Team of the Decade by Rugby Magazine, ScrumQueens All Star World Cup Team, and Team to Beat the World Champions by Letchworth.
Marco Pappa	He was also awarded the MLS'' Goal of the Year'' award of the 2010 season for his goal against San Jose Earthquakes on 10 April 2010.
Ben Coker	He was awarded the Colchester United Young Player of the Year award at the end of the 2010 -- 11 season, his first with the club.
Richard Stearman	He remained with the club for two more seasons, and won both Player of the Year and Player's Player of the Year awards in 2007 -- 08.
Ned Eckersley	He followed this with an extremely successful 2013 season, for which he was named CricInfo's breakthrough player of the season.
Michael Carrick	On 20 April 2001, he was nominated for the PFA Young Player of the Year alongside team-mate Joe Cole.
Richard Pratt (Australian businessman)	He was awarded the Morrish Medal in 1953 for being deemed the'' best and fairest'' U-19 player that year.
Tommy Oar	In March 2010, due to his impressive performances throughout the season he was award the Rising Star award for the Best Young Player and selected on the bench in the A-League Team of the Year.
Gus Seebeck	The move was instantly successful, as he was a surprise winner of the 1999 Sandover Medal, beating favourite Ryan Turnbull by one vote.
Mohamed Zidan	At FCM, he became the league's top scorer in the 2003 -- 04 season, and he was awarded the Rookie of the year award, becoming Player of the Year the following season.
Arjen Robben	Robben proved to be a crucial player for the 2004 -- 05 season ; in November 2004, he was awarded the FA Premier League'' Player of the Month'' award.
Sean Flynn (footballer)	As well as running his business he joined Bodmin Town in 2008 where he went on to win a league and cup domestic treble, as well as player of the year, managers player of the year and supporters player of the year.
Martin Jol	Jol returned to Den Haag in 1985, and won the 1985 Dutch Footballer of the Year award in the Eerste Divisie league.
Giles Barnes	He was named Derby County's Young Player of the Year for the 2006 -- 07 season.
Brendan Taylor	In 2011, as a result of his fine performances, he was named the cricketer of the year and the batsman of the year.
Kevin Rutkiewicz	In March 2009 he received the Scottish First Division Player of the Month Award for a string of solid performances that helped the team maintain their lead at the top of the league table.
Yoann Gourcuff	For his efforts during the 2008 -- 09 season, Gourcuff was awarded the UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year award.
Essa?d Belkalem	In 2009, Belkalem was chosen as the third best young talent in the Algerian Championnat National behind Abderahmane Hachoud and Youcef Ghazali in a vote conducted by DZFoot.
Alex Brown (rugby union)	Under the tutelage of rugby director Dean Ryan, he was voted the club's player of the year in the 2000 -- 01 season.
Ronaldinho	The statue had been erected in 2004 to celebrate his first FIFA World Player of the Year award.
Steve David	David He had a standout season second season and was named the 1975 NASL MVP as the Toros reached the league cup play-off semi-final stage.
Elisabeth Leidinge	In 1991 Leidinge helped Sweden to a third place finish at the inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup and also collected the Diamantbollen award for the best female footballer in the country.
Etienne Barbara	In August 2011, he was voted as offensive player of the month, just days after he scored a brilliant hat-trick.
Marcus Tudgay	He won the Fans player of the month awards for February and March 2009 and the PFA Fans Championship Player Of The Year award, as well as the Sheffield Wednesday Player of the Year.
Paul Wellens	As one of the quieter members of a squad littered with big names and personalities, it was all the more creditable that Wellens earned St. Helens player of the season award in 2004 to underline his value at Knowsley Road, establishing himself as one of the fans' favourites.
Liam Boyce	He was named as Ulster Footballer of the Year and Northern Ireland Football Writers' Player of the Year for 2011 -- 12.
Liam Miller	His early performances for Hibs were rewarded with the Scottish Premier League player of the month award for October 2009.
Gurjinder Kumar	He then won the Ashok Piramal Group'' Young Player of the Year'' award after the 2012 -- 13 season.
Daniel Agger	On 12 November, Agger was named 2012 Danish Player of the Year, the second occasion he has won the award.
Karim Ziani	He was voted as the top player in Ligue 2 for the 2005 -- 06 season.
Lewis Buxton	In 2012 -- 13, Buxton was voted player of the year by the Sheffield Wednesday supporters.
Caleb Patterson-Sewell	Upon his arrival in Portugal he quickly established himself as Atlético's starting goalkeeper and was nominated for 2012 Goalkeeper of the Year award at the 2012 LPFP Awards.
Andy King (footballer born 1988)	His overall performance earned him the players' player of the year award on 28 April 2010 which he shared with teammate Jack Hobbs.
Jamison Gibson-Park	Gibson-Park was one of the then break-out stars of the 2012 ITM Cup in his debut year for Taranaki, scoring four tries in eleven appearances and was awarded the most promising player of the year ahead of finalists Mitch Brown and Seta Tamanivalu.
Scott Marshall (footballer)	He scored his only goal for the Gunners in their 2 -- 0 victory over Newcastle United in March 1996 and at the end of that season was voted as the Gunners' Young Player of the Year by the supporters.
Robbie Willmott	At the end of the 2010 -- 11 season, Willmott was acclaimed as one of the season's star performers with his inclusion in the Conference team of the season, the only Luton Town player to be represented.
Davit Zirakashvili	In 2010, Zirakashvili was voted Georgian sportsman of the year after some crucial performances for both club and country.
Dries Mertens	After the 2008 -- 09 season, Mertens won'' De Gouden Stier'', an award given to the Jupiler League's greatest talent.
Yuri Zhirkov	His performance at Euro 2008, in which Russia reached the semi-finals, was recognised with his inclusion in the Team of the Tournament and award as Russian Footballer of the Year.
Fernando G?mez	Fernando won the Don Balón s Best Spanish Player Award in 1988 -- 89, and broke into the Spanish national team later that year.
Francisco L?pez Contardo	After a gold medal in the 2003 Six Days of Brazil competition at Fortaleza he was named as'' best rider of year'' by Chilean sports' journalists.
Cristiano Ronaldo	He finished as the runner-up to Kaká for the 2007 Ballon d'Or, and was third in the running for the FIFA World Player of the Year award, behind Kaká and Lionel Messi.
Brian McLean	During his loan spell, he won the Scottish Premier League Young Player of the Month award for March 2006.
Ernst Joubert	Ernst was rewarded for his outstanding performances in the season by being named as the Aviva Premiership Player of the Month for February, also his consistent performances earned him a place in the Sky Sports Aviva Premiership Dream Team 2011.
Tana Umaga	The IRB shortlisted Umaga for their 2005 International Player of the Year award (an honour eventually won by fellow All Black Dan Carter).
Mohamed Aboutrika	Aboutrika's brace in 2006 FIFA Club World Cup and his dazzling performances throughout the season made him a serious contender for the CAF African Footballer of the Year award (as well as the BBC one) and secured his standing as Egypt's most popular personality.
Claudio Morel Rodr?guez	He was runner-up behind fellow Paraguayan Salvador Cabañas in the 2007 South American Footballer of the Year award.
Chris Hogg	Hogg was voted the club's Player of the Year by both the fans and his fellow players at the end of the 2007 -- 08 season.
Ara Hakobyan	In Banants, Hakobyan played one season and became an Armenian Cup finalist and Armenia's top scorer and Armenian Footballer of the Year in the 2003 season.
Shakib Al Hasan	Shakib was named The Wisden Cricketer's'' Test Player of the Year'' in November 2009.
Sotirios Kyrgiakos	Kyrgiakos' brilliant performances during January 2010 saw him voted as Liverpool's official'' Player of the Month'' by the clubs fans.
Michael Olaitan	On 27 December 2012, Olaitan was nominated for'' Talent of the Year'' in the Football League.
Emmanuel Adebayor	He was also awarded the BBC African Footballer of the Year for his performance in 2008.
Ole Madsen	In 1964, he was named Danish'' Player of the Year'' and became the first Dane to receive a vote in the European'' Footballer of the Year'' poll.
Vilimoni Delasau	In 1999 Delasau was named Player of the Year at the Fiji Rugby Awards after scoring 82 tries in the season.
Nathan Clarke	Clarke was runner-up in the Huddersfield Town' Player of the Year' 2005 -- 06 and is vice-captain of the team going on to win the title the following year along with winning the' players player award'.
Michael Lea	His consistent form in the 2006 -- 07 season led to a nomination for the Manchester United Reserve Player of the Year award, but he was beaten to the award by Kieran Lee.
Jim Goodwin	He was also named as Scunthorpe player of the year 2007 and won goal of the season 2007.
James Magner	In 2011, he had a breakthrough year in the VFL, winning the Zebras' best and fairest award, and becoming noted as one of the league's top midfielders.
Tomas Brolin	He is widely regarded by Leeds fans as one of the club's worst ever players, and in 2003 a poll by BBC Sport saw him voted by the club's fans as the club's worst player in living memory, with the editor joking that Brolin had given almost all of his # 4.
Graham Carey	Carey won the SPL Young Player of the Month award for April 2010 and MacPherson added that he was keen to keep Carey at St Mirren.
Cristiano Ronaldo	Ronaldo was also one of eight Manchester United players named in the 2006 -- 07 PFA Premier League Team of the Year.
Terry Campese	After a strong season in 2008, Campese was voted the best five-eighth of the year and was just three points off winning the Dally M Medal.
Richie Foran	In 2000, Foran signed for Shelbourne and finished his first season in the league by winning the PFAI Young Player of the Year award.
Jermain Defoe	After a fine run of form which saw him score seven goals for club and country, Defoe was named Barclays Player of the Month for August 2009.
Martin Petrov	His performances in the 2006 qualifying campaign earned him the 2006 Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award.
Ga?l Givet	Following the 2009 -- 10 season, Givet was awarded the' Player's Player of the Year' award by the club.
Alan Hodgkinson	In 1966 -- 67, he won the Sheffield United Supporters player of the year award.
Graham Cummins	In October 2010 Graham was named in the PFAI First Division Team of the Year and won the PFAI First Division Player of the Year award.
Harutyun Vardanyan	As part of Shirak, Vardanyan won the Armenian Premier League three time and the Armenian Supercup once and in 1997, he was voted the Armenian Footballer of the Year.
Kabamba Floors	Floors ended his 2006 season with the Players' Player of the Year title, and also received the Absa Currie Cup Player of the Year Award.
Yuji Hino	At the end of his first full year in professional wrestling, Kaientai Dojo named Hino the 2004 Newcomer of the Year.
Curtis Fleming	In November 1990 he was awarded the FAI's Under-21 Player of the Year award.
Daniel Nermark	He was retained in 2007 and finished third in the Premier League average s behind Chris Holder and Magnus Zetterstrom, and was voted Premier League Rider of the Year by his fellow professionals.
Tom Heaton	Heaton's performances during the 2010 -- 11 season, earned him the club's Young Player of the Year award.