Former Harambee Stars skipper Victor Wanyama missed on the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award at CF Montreal club’s end-of-season awards to his fellow midfielder Djordje Mihailovic who garnered a landslide 80% win.Wanyama had been nominated alongside Mihailovic as well as last season’s winner of the same award Romell Quioto.In the 2021 season, Mihailovic established himself as CF Montréal’s creative centerpiece, managing 16 assists, two short of New England Revolution’s Carles Gil who managed 18 assists to top the chart.In doing so, he surpassed the club’s season record of 13 assists previously held by Nacho Piatti in 2018 and also became the second player in Club history to play all MLS games.Djordje Mihailovic is the only American at the top of the charts in assists and chances created in MLS this year. Get this man, who just lifted a trophy, into the winter camps for USMNT over the Lletgets and Roldans! https://t.co/c2vgkulgBS— dispossessed Kranks (@dis_possessed) November 21, 2021 The Giuseppe-Saputo trophy, awarded to the MVP, and Defensive Player of the Year trophy, were presented by two Members at Centre Nutrilait in the presence of head coach Wilfried Nancy and Sporting Director Olivier Renard.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.In the 2021 regular season, Wanyama managed to make 27 appearances as opposed to Mihailovic’s 34, amassing 2365 minutes in the process, starting in all the 27 matches he played and getting subbed out in only three instances.The former Tottenham Hotspur’s midfielder minutes played were a great improvement from last season when he featured for 1980 minutes spread across 22 appearances for the season.Victor Wanyama’s Montreal CF have won the Canadian Championship title after beating Toronto FC 1-0 in the final.They thus qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League.Congratulations Vic#KenyansAbroad pic.twitter.com/MW9uUoH0mQ— Ole Teya (@Kevin_teya) November 22, 2021 He 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.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 beat two Canadians in Kamal Miller and Joel Waterman to take up 58% of the total votes by the club’s season ticket holders.
