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Mumbai: Indian National Team Captain Sunil Chhetri has been declared the \u2018AIFF 2014 Player of the Year.\u2019 Chhetri was chosen the winner on basis of votes from Coaches from I-League Clubs.<\/p>\nMumbai: Indian National Team Captain Sunil Chhetri has been declared the \u2018AIFF 2014 Player of the Year.\u2019 Chhetri was chosen the winner on basis of votes from Coaches from I-League Clubs.<\/p>\n
Chhetri, who had also won the Award in 2013 will be presented a prize of Rs. 2 lakh besides a Trophy. This is his third \u2018AIFF Player of the Year Award\u2019 for him in four Years and fourth overall. In the process, he overtook IM Vijayan\u2019s feat of winning it three times.<\/p>\n
Chhetri had earlier won the Award in 2007, 2011 and 2013 while Vijayan had won it in 1992, 1997 and 2000.<\/p>\n
In 2014, Chhetri finished as the highest Indian goalscorer in I-League 14 goals and also stays the highest ever Indian goalscorer in International Football.<\/p>\n
Besides, Manipur Striker Bala Devi was declared the \u20182014 AIFF Woman Footballer of the Year.\u2019 In 2014 Bala Devi scored 16 goals to help India retain the SAFF Women\u2019s Crown in Islamabad. The 24-year old Bala Devi would be presented Rs. 1 lakh besides a Trophy.<\/p>\n
AIFF also declared Sandesh Jhingan was the \u20182014 Emerging Footballer of the Year.\u2019<\/p>\n
Furthermore, Western India Football Association (WIFA) bagged the \u2018Award for the Best Grassroots Development Programme.\u2019 In 2014, WIFA conducted 19 Grassroots Festivals and 5 GR Courses besides training 128 Grassroots Leaders.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Award for long time contribution to Indian Football\u2019 has been awarded to ONGC.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, Kerala\u2019s Santosh Kumar was declared the \u20182014 AIFF Best Referee\u2019 while Manipur\u2019s Sapam Kennedy was declared the \u20182014 AIFF Best Assistant Referee.\u2019<\/p>\n
All the Awards would be presented in an Awards Night early in 2015.<\/p>\n
AWARDS AT A GLANCE:<\/strong><\/p>\n 2014 AIFF Player of the Year: Sunil Chhetri<\/p>\n 2014 AIFF Women\u2019s Footballer of the Year: Bala Devi<\/p>\n 2014 Emerging Player of the Year: Sandesh Jhingan<\/p>\n Award for Best Grassroots Development Programme: WIFA<\/p>\n Award for long time contribution to Indian Football: ONGC<\/p>\n 1992: IM Vijayan<\/p>\n 1993: VP Sathyan<\/p>\n 1994: Jo Paul Ancheri<\/p>\n 1995: Bhaichung Bhutia<\/p>\n 1996: Bruno Coutinho<\/p>\n 1997: IM Vijayan<\/p>\n 2000: IM Vijayan<\/p>\n 2001: Jo Paul Ancheri<\/p>\n 2002: Deepak Mondal<\/p>\n 2003: Tomba Singh<\/p>\n 2004: S. Venkatesh<\/p>\n 2005: Climax Lawrence<\/p>\n 2006: Surkumar Singh<\/p>\n 2007: Sunil Chhetri<\/p>\n 2008: Bhaichung Bhutia<\/p>\n 2009: Subrata Paul<\/p>\n 2010: Gouramangi Singh<\/p>\n 2011: Sunil Chhetri<\/p>\n 2012: Syed Rahim Nabi<\/p>\n 2013: Sunil Chhetri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chhetri, who had also won the Award in 2013 will be presented a prize of Rs. 2 lakh besides a Trophy. This is his third \u2018AIFF Player of the Year Award\u2019 for him in four Years and fourth overall. In the process, he overtook IM Vijayan\u2019s feat of winning it three times.<\/p>\n Chhetri had earlier won the Award in 2007, 2011 and 2013 while Vijayan had won it in 1992, 1997 and 2000.<\/p>\n In 2014, Chhetri finished as the highest Indian goalscorer in I-League 14 goals and also stays the highest ever Indian goalscorer in International Football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
PREVIOUS WINNERS OF AIFF PLAYER OF THE YEAR:<\/strong><\/p>\nMumbai: Indian National Team Captain Sunil Chhetri has been declared the \u2018AIFF 2014 Player of the Year.\u2019 Chhetri was chosen the winner on basis of votes from Coaches from I-League Clubs.<\/p>\n