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Harry Kewell will be awarded one of Australias most prestigious football honours in December, becoming just the seventh player to win the Alex Tobin Medal. Wholesale Maple Leafs Jerseys .The prodigiously talented attacker has been chosen by Australian players - through Professional Footballers Australia - to receive the award.Kewell joins inaugural winners Johnny Warren and Joe Marston, Craig Johnston (2009), Mark Viduka (2011), Frank Farina (2012) and Mark Schwarzer (2014) as Tobin Medallists.The 38-year-old said it was esteemed company to be keeping.When you get voted by your peers its something special because theyre recognising what youve done in the game, he said.To be up there with the likes of Johnny Warren, Craig Johnston, Schwarzer and Mark Viduka - these are the icons of Australia that all the young kids look up toIts one that Im very proud of.PFA president and Sydney FC defender Alex Wilkinson said Kewell deserved to stand alongside Australias footballing elite.The image of Harry scoring against Croatia to send the Socceroos into the knockout stages of the 2006 World Cup is one of games most iconic and this along with countless others will live long in the memories of all football fans, he said.Harrys achievements for club and country inspired the nations young footballers and showed that no limits should be placed on what Australian footballers can achieve if they work tirelessly and commit wholeheartedly to the game.Kewell - the only Australian to be named as Young Player of the Year in England - left a huge impression on the English Premier League over 13 seasons with Leeds United and Liverpool.The left winger was known for his relentless run and attacking verve.With fellow Socceroo Mark Viduka, he took Leeds to the final four of the UEFA Champions League, a trophy he would win with Liverpool.Kewell played at two World Cups with Australia and was a part of the Socceroos side which reached the final of the 2011 Asian Cup, losing to Japan.Kewell announced his retirement in 2014, but moved quickly to join the coaching ranks.He leads English Premier League side Watfords development squad, working under well-regarded Italian coach Walter Mazzarri.Kewell said he saw a future on the touchline for a senior team in his future.Ive got the taste of it. I love it. I want to go out there and really feel that pressure, he said.I want to feel that pressure of winning and losing on the weekend. It was something I enjoyed as a player and its something that I enjoyed as a coach.Whether I will enjoy it as much as Im talking about it, I dont know.Kewell will be in Melbourne to receive the honour on December 6 at the PFA Awards. Womens Maple Leafs Jerseys . Dusautoir, the former World Player of the Year, sustained a torn bicep playing for Toulouse in the Heineken Cup on Saturday. The flanker, who has played 65 times for France, is expected to be out for up to four months. Adidas Maple Leafs Jerseys .Y. -- Paul Byron and Matt Stajan scored as the Calgary Flames started a five-game road trip with a 2-1 overtime win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday afternoon. http://www.cheapmapleleafsjerseyschina.com/ .com) - The Montreal Canadiens embark on their first road trip of the season as they head out west to battle the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night. PARIS -- Germany and a combined Nordic nations bid currently head the possible candidates to host the 2024 European Championship.The leading contenders are clear though they have expressed only unofficial interest for a contest that should be decided in 2018, UEFA interim general secretary Theodore Theodoridis said Tuesday.Turkey had been an expected bidder, after it was edged by France for the hosting rights to Euro 2016 and declined an invitation from UEFA President Michel Platini to bid to host Euro 2020 alone.Now, I dont know if Turkey will like to come back and give it a go, Theodoridis said at a briefing. I dont think so, but you can never know.Germany has focused on a 2024 bid, after leaving England clear to host the semifinals and final of the multi-nation Euro 2020.The Nordic group of soccer federations from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden said in April they wanted to host the tournament either in 2024 or 2028. That bid would seek to stage events in Iceland and the Faroe Islands, too.The four-nation Nordics group also announced this month it was backing Slovenia federation leader Aleksander Ceferin as a candidate to replace the now-suspended Platini in a Sept. 14 election.The other currently declared contender, Michael van Praag, a UEFA vice president from the Netherlands, is reportedly a supporter of Germany for Euro 2024.Still, Theodoridis said the bidding contest should not be a campaign issue in the presidential election voted by UEFAs 55 member federations. Cheap Maple Leafs Jerseys. f course, in an election you can never exclude populism but I would not worry about it, Theodoridis said, pointing to UEFAs transparency in publishing technical analysis of the bids. I think it will be quite naive for people to think that they can promise or that they can be promised one thing or the other.European Championship hosts are chosen by the 17-member UEFA executive committee, with members from a candidate country excluded from voting.Theodoridis said he has no plans to enter the presidential contest by the July 20 deadline. The Greek official was deputy general secretary at UEFA until his former boss Gianni Infantino left in February on being elected FIFA president.Infantino is scheduled to attend the Euro 2016 final on July 10, while Platini still has not attended a game in his home country despite an open invitation from UEFA.You can never say never, Theodoridis said. The decision would be for Mr. Platini to make if he wants to come or not.Platini has a home on the south coast near Marseille, where France would play a semifinal on July 7 if it beats Iceland at Saint-Denis on Sunday. 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