The Jamaica Soccer Federation (JFF) on Friday congratulated the 2022 CONCACAF Girls’s Participant of the 12 months, Khadija “Bunny” Shaw.
Shaw was introduced because the winner of the award earlier that day, turning into the primary Caribbean lady to assert the prize.
The 26-year-old, who had an exquisite yr for membership Manchester Metropolis and nation, performed a captain’s position in serving to the Reggae Girlz to their second-straight World Cup look, whereas additionally enjoying a lead position for Manchester Metropolis to assert the 2021-22 FA Girls’s League Cup. She scored three targets within the knockout stage.
“Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw’s profitable the 2022 CONCACAF Girls’s Participant of the 12 months testifies that to dream, focus, work terribly laborious, and attempt to beat adversities, is a viable path to success,” the assertion from the JFF learn.
“The nation has watched with delight and absolute amazement the fast development of the captain of Jamaica’s Nationwide Senior Girls’s workforce, particularly since going skilled in 2019. To prime this prestigious awards checklist that included achieved gamers from the USA and Canada, amongst others, is a historic achievement for Jamaica. She turns into the first-ever awardee from exterior of america.
“The Jamaica Soccer Federation wholeheartedly congratulates Khadija, Jamaica’s main purpose scorer throughout genders and presently the main purpose scorer within the 2023 Girls’s Tremendous League. She now ascends to an envoy for Jamaica’s ladies’s soccer on the worldwide soccer stage.
“We pray for her continued good well being and power as she prepares to guide our nationwide workforce on the Girls’s World Cup.
“In profitable this award, Khadija has enhanced model Jamaica, however much more so, has supplied immense hope to numerous younger Jamaican feminine footballers. From enjoying within the streets of Spanish City, to St Jago Excessive Faculty, to membership, to the nationwide workforce, to varsity and the skilled ranks, she has not solely paved the soccer pathway, however has proven the qualities that breed success,” Michael Ricketts, President of the JFF, added.