Hibernians and Malta striker Andrew Cohen (picture) crowned a most successful season yesterday when he was named winner of two sections in the Malta Football Awards 2005.

He was voted Best Maltese Player in last season’s Premier League, as well as Best Striker.

A few days ago, he was also voted as Malta’s Footballer of the Year, apart from finishing as the League’s top scorer.

Twenty five journalists, 10 Premier club presidents, the 10 Premier clubs coaches and the ten Premier League club captains took part in the voting.

Like Cohen, his team-mate Essien Mbong also won two awards, that of Best Foreign Player and Best Midfielder.

The Most Promising Youngster award went to Alex Muscat of Sliema, while the women’s best player award was won by Rebecca D’Agostino.

The winners in the respective categories were the following:

Best Goalkeeper

Mario Muscat 101; Reuben Gauci 98; Murphy Akanji 94.

Best Defender

Brian Said 66, Massimo Grima 58, Willie Camenzuli 52.

Best Midfielder

Essien Mbong 105; Noel Turner 50, Stefan Giglio 43.

Best Striker

Andrew Cohen 158, Ivan Woods 128, Gilbert Agius 59.

Most Promising Youngster

Alex Muscat 135, Cleaven Frendo 36, Andre Schembri 31.

Best Coach

Edward Aquilina 98, JJ Aquilina Valletta 93, Stephen Azzopardi 90.

Best Foreign Player

Essien Mbong 115, Precious Monye 88, Haruna Doda 31.

Best Maltese Player

Andrew Cohen 110, Ivan Woods 96, Gilbert Agius 71.

Best Female Player

Rebecca D’Agostino, Dorianne Theuma, Fiona Mangion, Dionne Theuma.

Best Futsal Player

N. Mijolovic 13, B. Pantelic 11, D. Milovanovic 9.

Best GFA Player

Brian Meilaq 18, Elton Vella 17, Daniel Bogdanovic 14.

Apart from the above awards, a special award was presented to Victor Tedesco, the former Hamrun Spartans president, because of his career in football.

The awards were presented by veteran journalists and among them there was also Peter Wilson, the president of the Sportswriters Association of England.