Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame names Hany Mukhtar Professional Player of the Year

NASHVILLE, TN – The Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame announced that Nashville SC forward Hany Mukhtar has been named the Tennessee Professional Player of the Year on Friday.

Mukhtar won the MLS Golden Boot last season as the league’s top scorer with 23 goals, and was named 2022 Landon Donovan MLS MVP. Notably, Mukhtar is the first Tennessee professional athlete to win an MVP award in a major sport outright, and the first since Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair shared the 2003 NFL MVP award with Peyton Manning.

Mukhtar will be presented with the award at the Tennessee Hall of Fame banquet on July 22 at the Omni Nashville Downtown. More information on this year’s honorees can be found here.

Author: Ben Wrightis the Director of Soccer Content and a Senior MLS Contributor for Broadway Sports covering Nashville SC and the US National Team. Previously Ben was the editor and a founder of Speedway Soccer, where he has covered Nashville SC and their time in USL before journeying to Major League Soccer since 2018. Raised in Louisville, KY Ben grew up playing before a knee injury ended his competitive career. When he is not talking soccer he is probably producing music, drinking coffee or hanging out with his wife and kids. Mastodon

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