Newcastle United receive major Alexander Isak boost - as part of double
NEWCASTLE UNITED are celebrating a prestigious awards double after two of their players landed the main honours at the North East Football Writers' Association's annual ceremony.
Alexander Isak and Elysia Boddy have won the North East Football Writers’ Association Senior Men’s and Young Women’s Player of the Year awards.
The winners of the men’s young player and women’s senior player of the year awards will be announced today.
The awards will be presented at the Ramside Hall Hotel on Sunday, March 2, on an evening that will also feature the presentation of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation/NEFWA personality of the year award which has been won in the past by the likes of Alan Shearer, Chris Kamara, Jill Scott and current holder Gary Bennett.
Sweden international Isak is the 45th winner of the senior men’s awards and the unanimous choice of the region’s football writers, ahead of Newcastle team-mate Anthony Gordon in second and Middlesbrough’s Emmanuel Latte Lath in third.
He succeeds team-mate Kieran Trippier, and is the fourth Newcastle player in a row to win the award since Middlesbrough captain Jonny Howson picked it up in 2020.
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Isak has been prolific for Eddie Howe since becoming Newcastle’s club record £60m signing from Real Sociedad in the summer of 2022, scoring 28 goals in the calendar year of 2024.
He was named the Premier League’s Player of the Month for December and won the Guinness Goal of the Month award for his strike against Liverpool.
Isak started his career at local club AIK and became their youngest goalscorer at the age of 16, moving to Borussia Dortmund in 2017 before joining Willem II on loan and scoring 13 goals in 16 games. He spent three years with Real Sociedad from 2019, scoring nearly 50 goals, impressed at Euro 2020, and moved to St James’ Park later that year.
Twenty-year-old Newcastle United midfielder Boddy played a major part in Becky Langley’s side’s promotion to the Women’s Championship last season when she also earned his first England Under-23 cap.
Teesside-born Boddy started playing boys' football with Marton at the age of four before moving into the girls' game with Teesside Girls RTC (Regional Talent Club) and then Middlesbrough Women at the age of 16.
She moved to Leicester Women, where she made her Women's Super League debut just a few weeks after her 18th birthday, before joining Bristol City Women and then moving to Newcastle in the summer of 2023, helping the club to promotion to the Championship last season.
Boddy becomes the second winner of the Women’s Young Player award, following Sunderland’s Katy Watson who was the inaugural winner last year.
Tickets for the North East Football Writers’ Association annual dinner at the Ramside Hall Hotel and Spa in Durham are available from claire.stephen@ramsidehallhotel.co.uk.
