Haley Bugeja wins the Atlas Youth Athlete of the Year Award 2021
After recently achieving the Atlas Youth Athlete of the Month for December, the football star Haley Bugeja has now been awarded with the Atlas Youth Athlete of the Year Award 2021. She won this prestigious award after a combined vote by a panel of three sports journalists and a public vote which was held online over the past weeks. Runners up are long jumper Jeremy Zammit and swimmer Sasha Gatt, who were both very close behind. The first and previous edition of this award was won by weightlifter Tenishia Thornton and at that time Haley Bugeja was the overall runner up. Haley Bugeja joined U.S. Sassuolo at the tender age of 16 and drew international attention with a remarkable debut season, in which she finished as her club’s top scorer and one of the top five scorers in Serie A Femminile. Her performances saw her named among UEFA’s top 10 female football players [...]