{"id":639873,"date":"2026-05-13T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639873\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:10:14","slug":"rio-ngumoha-wins-premier-league-debutant-of-the-season-and-scholar-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639873\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Ngumoha wins Premier League Debutant of the Season and Scholar of the Year awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Rio Ngumoha wins Premier League Debutant of the Season and Scholar of the Year awards\" title=\"Rio Ngumoha wins Premier League Debutant of the Season and Scholar of the Year awards\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rio-ngumoha-liverpool-fc-2-120526_7107607b835036276986cdd84320493c.webp.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 7 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Glenn Price<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Rio Ngumoha scooped up two prizes at the Premier League Youth Development Conference on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old received the Premier League Home Grown Debutant of the Season accolade on a joint basis alongside Arsenal&#8217;s Max Dowman. <\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool attacker was also one of 27 players to earn a Scholar of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Ngumoha has made 17 Premier League appearances in 2025-26 and scored two goals, the first of which was a late winner away at Newcastle United on his top-flight debut.<\/p>\n<p>Published 7 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 7 hours ago By Glenn Price Rio Ngumoha scooped up two prizes at the Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":["post-639873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}