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Manchester United boss Marc Skinner hailed Mary Earps after she was named the world’s best goalkeeper.
The England star, 29, picked up the gong at the FIFA Best awards in Paris on Monday following a superb patch of form for club and country.
And Skinner was full of praise for Earps ahead of Sunday’s WSL clash against Leicester.
He said: “It’s a wonderful achievement and thoroughly deserved. You never know how these awards are going to go, you never know whether the best person actually wins the award. But in this case, she certainly did.
“She brought it in this morning, the girls gave her a huge round of applause. They’ve all been in contact throughout anyway. And I felt the speech she gave afterwards was truly beautiful.
“We’ve got her some flowers and just made a real fuss of her, because she absolutely deserves it. Her ability to win things like that just cements the quality she has.”
Be unapologetically yourself — Mary Earps
Earps, who is chasing the WSL title with leaders United after winning Euro 2022 with the Lionesses, dedicated her award to “anyone who has ever been in a dark place”.
She added: “Just know that there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Keep going, you can achieve anything you set your mind to.
“Sometimes success looks like this, collecting trophies, sometimes it’s just waking up and putting one step in front of the other.
“There’s only one of you in the world, and that’s more than good enough. Be unapologetically yourself.”
