Melu played as a striker and was top goal scorer in the Zambian league in 1983, scoring 43 goals in all competitions with most of them scored from distance and free-kicks, and winning the Footballer of the Year award.
The 2007 league season was to prove the most successful for Du Zhenyu as he played a significant part in the title-winning Changchun Yatai team, subsequently winning the Footballer of the Year award in the process.
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He still won the Footballer of the Year award for the season, as Anderlecht won three leagues in a row, but would never return to his previous form.
In 1972 following his contribution to the Villa's promotion to Division 2 he was voted the midlands footballer of the year in a write-in poll conducted by the Birmingham Evening Mail newspaper.
Udoh is married to the female Nigerian international football player Mercy Akide who was the first female African footballer of the year.
Devine then plyed his trade with a number of Irish League clubs as well as Derry City and won the Ulster Young Footballer of the Year Award in 1994 when playing for Roy McCreadie's Omagh Town side.
Cronin was a member of the Republic of Ireland team that won the Celtic Cup underage tournament in 2002.He also was awarded Footballer of the Year at Coolmine Community School.
He joined Prince Louis FC in 2001, winning the Burundi Premier League and the Revelation Footballer of the Year award, and also being the finalist in the Kagame Inter-Club Cup; in 2002, he left for Mukura Victory Sports FC in Rwanda, where he would be noticed by scouts from Belgium's Standard de Liège.
He moved to SV Ried after two years and again two years later he moved to Grazer AK with whom he won a domestic cup, became footballer of the year and topped Austria's goalscoring charts.
Krone Footballer of the Year (voted by fans): 2006, 2007