West Ham United have announced that goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski has been named as Polish Footballer of the Year by his country’s biggest weekly football magazine: Pilka Nozna.
The award is voted on by Poland’s leading sports journalists and they have decided that Fabianski was the most impressive Polish footballer over the last 12 months.
They chose the goalkeeper after a stellar year playing for Swansea City, West Ham and the Polish national team, who he represented at the World Cup Finals in Russia and during the Nations League.
Fabianski has been ever-present for the Hammers this season after joining from Swansea in the summer.
Fabianski’s win ends Robert Lewandowski’s seven-year stranglehold on the award with the last winner before the striker being Jakub Blaszczykowski back in 2010.
Fabianski was given his award at the London Stadium earlier this week and with West Ham welcoming league leaders Liverpool to Stratford tomorrow evening he will be hoping to show the Hammers’ faithful just why he won it by helping them to a positive result against Jurgen Klopp’s men.
