All India Football Federation chooses Lallianzuala Chhangte for 'AIFF Men's Footballer of the Year Award'
Indian football team midfielder Lallianzuala Chhangte was named the AIFF Men's Footballer of the Year for 2022-23 by the All India Football Federation, while Manisha Kalyan won her second Women's Footballer of the Year award for the second time in a row.
Lalianzuala Change
Lallianzuala Chhangte won the award after some stellar performances for the Indian national team and Mumbai City FC. The winger made 12 appearances for the national team during the 2022–23 season, scoring two goals and providing one assist.
The Mizoram player was also the top scorer among Indians in the Indian Super League (ISL) 2022-23 season with 10 goals and six assists in 22 matches. He helped Mumbai make it to the semi-finals after topping the league stage. He was eighth on the overall ISL scoring chart for the season. Lallianzuala Chhangte became only the second player from Mizoram, after Jeje Lalpekhlua (2016), to win the AIFF Men's Player of the Year award.
Manisha Kalyan
It was Manisha Kalyan's second Player of the Honor honor in two seasons. The 21-year-old Manisha Kalyan, who won the 2020-21 AIFF Women's Emerging Footballer of the Year, currently plays as a forward for First Division football club Apollon in Cyprus. Manisha Kalyan became only the third Indian female footballer after Bala Devi (three) and Bembem Devi (two) to win the individual award two or more times.
Other Winners
AIFF Emerging Footballer of the Year 2022-23: Akash Mishra
AIFF Rising Footballer of the Year 2022-23: Shilji Shaji
All India Football Federation
It was established in the year 1937. In the year 1872, Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhakari, known as the father of Indian football, introduced the game to Calcutta (then the capital of India) by British soldiers.
Calcutta FC was the first club to be established in 1872, reports suggest that they were initially a rugby club and turned their attention to football in late 1894.
1888: The Durand Cup, first held in Shimla, is the first Indian football competition and incidentally the third oldest surviving competition in the world. It was started by Sir Mortimer Durand.
