Midfielder Clint Dempsey finished off the best season ever for an American in Europe by picking up his second straight Fulham Player of the Season award (voted on by Fulham fans).
2011/12 was unquestionably Dempsey's best season ever as a professional soccer player. He put up an insane 23 goals in 45 games (in all competitions) which is better than an average of half a goal per game, including a pair of hat tricks (which he'd never done before). He also scored a goal off a free kick for the first time. His game really expanded as this wonderful highlight video of all 23 goals put together by Fulham shows all the ways he can score: creating for himself, running onto passes, heading the ball, free kicks, penalty kicks, even chesting it in.
This season, Dempsey also broke significant records. He now has more career goals in the English Premier League than Brian McBride did (the previous American record holder) and he also set the new single-season goal total for Fulham (breaking Louis Saha's record).
Showing how far he and by extension American soccer has come, he was fourth in voting for the Football Writers' Association Player of the Year award. The three players that were ahead of him-Arsenal's Robin van Persie, Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and Paul Scholes-are some of the true global icons of the beautiful game.
Here is the excellent video of all 23 Dempsey goals from this past season. Ironically 23 is his jersey number as well. I'm not sure who the song is by but it's money, perfect fit.
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the song is "so here we are" by bloc party.
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