London: Tottenham Hotspur winger Gareth Bale has become the third proud owner of double awards, the PFA Player of the Year award and the Young Player award.
The Welsh ace who has also won the main award in 2011, has scored 19 Premier League goals and 24 goals in the entire tournament, closely followed in the line of star players such as Premier League top scorer Robin Van Persie with 25 goals, controversial Liverpool forward Luis Suarez with 23 goals this season, the Mirror reports.
Bale joins Cristiano Ronaldo and Andy Gray in earning the main award twice, where Ronaldo had won the double awards in 2007 and Andy Gray had won the same in 1977.
Bale said that it has been massively honourable for him to be voted by the team-mates and felt grateful towards his team and the manager, André Villas-Boas without whose cooperation, he believes, he could not have won the prestigious awards.
He added that the award-winning moment was special as well as surreal as he had grown watching Ryan Giggs and Thierry Henry winning these awards and now he was in the same place as them. Joking about the fact that there are many more shots left to score, Bale believes that he is in more scoring positions these days.
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