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Adelaide United is pleased to announce Ethan Alagich as the winner of the 2025\/26 A-League Men Players\u2019 Player Award.<\/p>\n
The A-League Men Players\u2019 Player award is voted by the Players in a 3-2-1 voting system and is awarded to the person that provides a source of inspiration and professionalism both in-game and off the pitch.<\/p>\n
Captain, Craig Goodwin was full of praise for Alagich, highlighting the young midfielder\u2019s growth both on and off the pitch:<\/p>\n
\u201cEthan this season has brought his game to another level. Not only in his performances but in his leadership as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe embodies all the qualities to be a Reds legend and to go to the top level in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ethan Alagich\u2019s 2025\/26 Season Stats:<\/p>\n
Games:<\/p>\n
21 Games<\/p>\n
20 Starts<\/p>\n
1814 Minutes Played (Average of 86 minutes per game)<\/p>\n
Highlights<\/p>\n
Four Goals<\/p>\n
Four Assists<\/p>\n
One goal or assist every 226 minutes<\/p>\n
Five times ALM Team of the Week appearances.<\/p>\n
Previous A-League Men\u2019s Players\u2019 Player Winners:<\/p>\n
2024\/25: Panagiotis Kikianis<\/p>\n
2023\/24: Hiroshi Ibusuki<\/p>\n
2022\/23: Craig Goodwin<\/p>\n
2021\/22: Craig Goodwin<\/p>\n
2020\/21: Jordan Elsey<\/p>\n
2019\/20: Paul Izzo<\/p>\n
2014\/15: Tarek Elrich<\/p>\n
2013\/14: Marcelo Carrusca<\/p>\n
2012\/13: Eugene Galekovic<\/p>\n
2011\/12: Eugene Galekovic<\/p>\n
2010\/11: Marcos Flores<\/p>\n
2009\/10: Eugene Galekovic<\/p>\n
2008\/09: Eugene Galekovic<\/p>\n
2007\/08: Cassio<\/p>\n
2006\/07: Jason Spagnulo<\/p>\n
2005\/06: Michael Valkanis<\/p>\n
2003\/04: Richie Alagich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide United is pleased to announce Ethan Alagich as the winner of the 2025\/26 A-League Men Players\u2019 Player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[341,395,957,958],"class_list":{"0":"post-5912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-a-league","9":"tag-adelaide","10":"tag-adelaide-united","11":"tag-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}