Gambian Wins Best Young Player Award

Playing his second season only this term since turning professional last year from a Gambian local club, it might be too quick a feat to achieve. And yet Hamza Barry did the extraordinary when football stakeholders flocked together in an annual end-of-the-season banquet to reward the league best performers.Losing the league title to Hibernians who successfully brought to a halt Valletta's domination incidentally applying the brakes to Hamza's club hopes for back-to -back shot at the staked prize, the Gambian midfielder was not to end the campaign without an accolade as football pundits conferred him the best young player of the Maltese Premier League award.

The 20-year-old has been phenomenal this term playing in all but two of Valletta's games, a thing caused delay in visa issuance following failed talks over a move to deposed African club champions Esperance du Tunis.

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