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Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rhulani Mokwena chooses Ronwen Williams over Orlando Pirates' Patrick Maswanganyi as his pick for the PSL Footballer of the Season award

The current<a href="https://www.goal.com/en-za/premier-soccer-league/yv73ms6v1995b5wny16jcfi3" target="_blank"> Premier Soccer League</a> campaign is nearing its end and players who have performed well throughout the season are closing in on their nominations for the league's awards.Now, the Sundowns coach has joined the debate about who deserves to be named the PSL Footballer of the Year.Some of the names being thrown around include Bafana Bafana captain Ronwen Williams, Orlando Pirates attacker Patrick Maswanganyi and the reigning holder of the accolade Teboho Mokoena of Sundowns.

WHAT HAPPENED?

“I think there’s been an unorthodox frontrunner and that’s Ronwen Williams,” said Mokwena as per <a href="https://www.idiskitimes.co.za/dstv-premiership/rulani-picks-his-player-of-the-season-favourite/" target="_blank">iDiski Times.</a>“It’s unorthodox because we normally don’t consider goalkeepers to receive such awards, normally I’m talking&nbsp;by&nbsp;football culture, worldwide – that’s why they started creating individual awards like the Golden Glove for the goalkeeper.“Really,&nbsp;it’s an award that very seldom goes to the goalkeeper, but when I look at Ronwen’s contribution this season to Sundowns, not just only as a goalkeeper but also on infield play, in possession in the way he tries to do things, I think he’s been head and shoulders," the Masandawana coach added."And from a level of consistency, he’s been head and shoulders above the rest.“But there&nbsp;have&nbsp;been some very good individual performances, periodically. Like for example a player like Patrick Maswanganyi deserves special mention because I’ve been watching. He’s picking up towards the end of the season and you know how the mind works, it’s picking up&nbsp;recently," he pointed out.“Then of course he deserves mention and people will speak about and I agree, at the moment he is playing very, very well and he has a great contribution to that.”

WHAT MOKWENA SAID

Williams has managed to keep 12 clean sheets in 17 league matches for Masandawana this season.While only performances in the PSL are considered for this top award, William's heroics at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations tournament and the Caf Champions League might influence his case.But Maswanganyi is making a strong bid for the prestigious gong in a season he has been<a href="https://www.goal.com/en-za/lists/maswanganyi-has-more-motm-awards-than-kaizer-chiefs-points-in-2024-but-psl-will-still-give-mamelodi-sundowns-mokoena-poty-award-fans/blt99f0c2fd90b6a021#csa79dfae6e467f4c0" target="_blank"> named Man of the Match in the league seven times this season.</a>

THE BIGGER PICTURE

Only two goalkeepers have been named the league's best player in the PSL era.Kaizer Chiefs' Itumeleng Khune is the last custodian to claim this award after winning it at the end of the 2012/13 season and before him, Andre Arendse won the accolade at the end of the 2001/02 season.

DID YOU KNOW?

The Sundowns stopper still has eight PSL matches to show that he deserves to be selected as the PSL's best player for this season, as his club looks to wrap up their seventh title in a row.Maswanganyi, on the other hand, has six league games to further his case as Pirates close in on a second place finish for the second year in a row.

WHAT NEXT FOR WILLIAMS AND MASWANGANYI?

Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rhulani Mokwena chooses Ronwen Williams over Orlando Pirates' Patrick Maswanganyi as his pick for the PSL Footballer of the Season award | Goal.com

The debate over who should be named the local league&apos;s best player of the 2023/24 season is raging and even club coaches are getting in on the action.

Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rhulani Mokwena chooses Ronwen Williams over Orlando Pirates&apos; Patrick Maswanganyi as his pick for the PSL Footballer of the Season award