Liverpool’s Van Dijk named PFA Players’ Player of the Year

Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and Arsenal Women Football Club’s Vivianne Miedema has been named Professional Footballers’ Association Players’ Player of the Year for the 2018-19 season. Van Dijk is the first defender to take the award since Chelsea centre-back John Terry in 2004-05. Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling and Georgia Stanway were named as the Young Players of the Year.