Uganda Cranes captain Denis Masinde Onyango has been nominated in the 2019/20 Premier Soccer League Awards.
The PSL awards seek to recognise the best performers in the South Africa top division for a given season.
Mamelodi Sundowns’ Onyango has been nominated in the Goalkeeper of the season category where he will compete with Daniel Akpeyi (Kaizer Chiefs) and Ronwen Williams (SuperSport United).
Onyango had eight cleans sheets from 21 league games as Sundowns mounted a comeback to win the PSL title on the last day of the season.
The 2019/20 season, however saw Onyango have some lows especially with injuries and bad days on the field in what proved to be a challenging spell for the ever reliable Cranes star.
His eight cleans sheets came against SuperSport United, Baroka, Stellenbosch, Polokwane City, Amazulu, Bidvest Wits, Orlando Pirates and Chippa United.
Denis Onyango. Courtesy
Sundowns finished the season having conceded 22 goals, the joint lowest with Bidvest Wits whose goalkeeper Ricardo Goss has not been nominated in the Category.
Onyango’s fellow nominees, South African Ronwen of SuperSport kept the most clean sheets with 13 while Nigerian Akpeyi of Kaizer had nine.
Wayne Sandilands of Orlando Pirates misses out despite making 12 clean sheets alongside Richard Ofori (Maritzburg) and Veli Mothwa (Chippa) who kept 11 each.
The Awards ceremony date has not been named by press time but The-SportsNation has been made aware that the event will be held BEFORE 2020/21 league kickoff dates on October 24, 2020.
In the other categories, PSL Footballer of the Season has four nominees – Themba Zwane (Sundowns) Peter Shalulile (Highlands Park), Samir Nurkovic (Kaizer Chiefs) and Gaston Sirino (Sundowns).
For coach of the season, Sundowns former coach Pitso Mosimane (now at Al Ahly, will compete against Ernst Middendorp (formerly at Kaizer Chiefs) and Maritzburg’s Eric Tinkler.
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