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has been in exceptional form since returning to Belgium with Club Brugge, and has now been awarded the Gouden Schoen award for 2022. The Gouden Schoen, which translates to Golden Shoe, is awarded to the best player in the Belgian top flight over the calendar year.

On Wednesday night, Mignolet picked up the award in Antwerp, becoming the first goalkeeper to receive the Gouden Schoen since Michel Preud’homme in 1989. He is only the sixth goalkeeper in the award’s 69-year history to be named the best player in Belgium, and it came as he recorded the biggest-ever lead in the voting. Mignolet received 684 points, which is 451 more than second-placed Casper Nielsen, who swapped Union SG to become the 34-year-old’s Club Brugge team-mate in July.



“A dream can only become a plan through craftsmanship and hard work,” he wrote on after receiving his award. “It’s an honour to be awarded the Gouden Schoen 2022 and become only the sixth goalkeeper in the history of this prize to win it.”