BREAKING! Virgil Van Dijk Wins 2019 UEFA Player Of The Year Award Ahead Of Messi, Ronaldo

Liverpool safeguard Virgil Van Dijk has won the 2019 UEFA Best Player Of The Year Award Ahead of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, MySportDab reports.

The player was likewise named as the UEFA Defender of the Season, while colleague Alisson Becker scooped the Goalkeeper of the Season grant.

It tops off what has been a wonderful ascent for the Dutch protector, who was all the while carrying out his specialty at Southampton just 21 Months back.

Van Dijk has built up himself as the most overwhelming protector in world football throughout the last season and a half, changing the once unsteady Liverpool barrier into one of the meanest backlines in European football.

He earned man of the match respects in the Champions League last triumph over Spurs, and was broadly viewed as the best player in that challenge last season.

As had been the case so often last season, they failed to do so.

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He was also instrumental in The Netherlands' run to the UEFA Nations League finals, scoring in both games against Germany and dominating at the back in the home win over France.

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