{"id":688917,"date":"2026-05-23T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/688917\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:56:14","slug":"bruno-fernandes-wins-the-premier-league-player-of-season-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/688917\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes wins the Premier League player-of-season award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes was named the Premier League\u2019s player of the season on Saturday after helping his team secure Champions League qualification and tying an assists record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandes notched his record-tying 20th assist of the Premier League season last weekend and can break the record when United visits Brighton on Sunday in the season finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Portugal midfielder is tied with Arsenal great Thierry Henry (2002-03) and former Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne (2019-20) for most assists in a single Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier this month, Fernandes was voted as footballer of the year in England by soccer writers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes was named the Premier League\u2019s player of the season on Saturday after helping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-688917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}