Onyekuru: I’m Honoured To Receive Belgium’s Best Talent Award

Henry Onyekuru has expressed his delight after he was named Most Promising Player of the Year at the 2017 Soulier d’Or Awards in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday.

The Soulier d’Or or Belgian Golden Shoe Awards is an award given in Belgium at the beginning of each year to the best footballer of the Belgian first division for the past year.

The trophy is sponsored by the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.

Onyekuru who is currently recuperating from a knee injury he sustained in December won the award ahead of Mechelen’s Hassan Bandé and Landry Dimata.

Onyekuru had a brilliant 2017 as KAS Eupen player and as a loanee at Anderlecht,. from Everton. He scored 24 goals for Eupen and 10 for Anderlecht. He returned to the Premier League side after injury stopped his fine showing for the Belgian giants.