Former Harambee Stars skipper Victor Wanyama has been nominated for the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award at CF Montreal ahead of the club’s end-of-season awards in an announcement on the Club’s website.Wanyama will battle it out for the award that could see him awarded the Giuseppe Saputo Trophy, awarded to the club’s MVP, alongside his fellow midfielder Djordje Mihailovic and last season’s winner of the same award Romell Quioto.Argentine Ignacio Piatti, now with Argentina’s Racing Club, holds the record for the award having won it four consecutive times in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.Beautiful Weather 🧐🔋🔐 pic.twitter.com/ZC5eHmR4xR— Victor Wanyama (@VictorWanyama) November 17, 2021 The Club announced that its season subscribers will have the honor of choosing the recipients of the individual end-of-season trophies, namely the MVP and the Defensive Player of the Year via a link sent to them through email in an exercise that started at 5 PM EST on November 17 and will end at 5 PM EST on November 20, 2021. ##NAJAVA_MECA_5988479##In the 2021 regular season, Wanyama managed to make 27 appearances, amassing 2365 minutes in the process, starting in all the 27 matches he played and getting subbed out in only three instances.Victor Wanyama Exclusive: From a scared little man who fled wintry Europe to the midfield colossus who once bossed Barcelona and impressed Koeman and PochetinoHis minutes played were a great improvement from last season when he featured for 1980 minutes spread across 22 appearances for the season.The former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder matched his goal tally in his maiden season in the league, scoring twice in the 2021 season against New York Redbulls and Toronto in matches that Montreal emerged winners in the end.He was also booked 8 times, almost tripling the bookings he accumulated last season, 3.⚽️🔵⚫️🔋 pic.twitter.com/3J65We5aMu— Victor Wanyama (@VictorWanyama) November 5, 2021 In his debut season in 2020, Wanyama was nominated for two Major League Soccer (MLS) Awards including the Newcomer of the Year Award and the MLS Works Humanitarian Award but missed out on both in the end.In the Defensive Player of the Year category, Frenchman Rudy Camacho will be up against two Canadians in Kamal Miller and Joel Waterman.
