Jamaican Khadija Shaw claims CONCACAF Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months
Jamaica and Manchester Metropolis striker Khadija “Bunny” Shaw has been named the 2022 CONCACAF Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months.
Shaw is the primary Caribbean participant to win CONCACAF Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months honors.
The 31-year-old talismanic striker loved one other excellent yr in 2022. 4 years after serving to Jamaica turn into the first-ever Caribbean nation to qualify for a FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, Shaw performed an enormous function in serving to Jamaica qualify for his or her second-straight Ladies’s World Cup.
Shaw led the Reggae Girlz to a Third-Place end on the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship in Monterrey, Mexico, which punched their ticket to Australia/New Zealand 2023.
Within the 2022 CWC, Shaw scored three objectives, together with the game-winning rating within the opening 1-0 win versus Mexico and a brace within the 4-0 victory in opposition to Haiti, which sealed Jamaica’s Ladies’s World Cup qualification. For her efforts, Shaw was named to the 2022 CWC Greatest XI.
Shaw was simply as deadly in CWC Qualifying, amassing 9 objectives to assist Jamaica high their group to then qualify for the CWC. Shaw had braces versus Bermuda (4-0), Grenada (6-1) and the Dominican Republic (5-1), plus a hat trick versus Cayman Islands (9-0).
At membership degree with Manchester Metropolis in England, Shaw was equally prolific.
Throughout the calendar yr 2022, she scored 15 objectives in 19 Ladies’s Tremendous League video games, seven objectives in eight home cup video games (Ladies’s FA Cup and FA Ladies’s League Cup) and two objectives in two UEFA Ladies’s Champions League video games.
Shaw’s three objectives within the knockout stage helped Manchester Metropolis declare the 2021-22 FA Ladies’s League Cup.