T&T’s An­dre For­tune was a dou­ble win­ner when his North Car­oli­na Foot­ball Club an­nounced the win­ners of the 2020 NCFC Team Awards.

The 24-year-old For­tune who has two ap­pear­ances for the T&T se­nior squad was se­lect­ed by his team­mates as the “Of­fen­sive Play­er of the Year” and the “Most Valu­able Play­er” ho­n­ours re­cent­ly.

This is For­tune’s first time win­ning Of­fen­sive Play­er of the Year and MVP awards.

The North Car­oli­na-born For­tune has con­tin­ued to grow and evolve as a play­er since 2017 where he be­came the first North Car­oli­na FC Youth acad­e­my play­er to sign a con­tract with the first team.

This sea­son de­spite his team miss­ing out on the Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion play­offs, he led the team in scor­ing with six goals, which was equal to 35 per cent of the team’s to­tal goals.

The mid­field­er, who made his na­tion­al de­but for T&T in 2019, had a 100 per cent con­ver­sion rate on penal­ty kicks, scor­ing three of his goals from the mark.

“It is an ho­n­our to be named the team Of­fen­sive Play­er of the Year and the team MVP,” said For­tune. “This club means a lot to me as it has pro­vid­ed the plat­form for me to grow in­to the play­er I am to­day. In a year of many ups and downs, a tremen­dous amount of cred­it goes to the sup­port of my fam­i­ly, the fans, my team­mates, and the staff. Thank you to every­one whose hard work went in­to mak­ing the 2020 sea­son a safe pos­si­bil­i­ty for us.”

For­tune had 19 shots through­out 14 match­es and 971 min­utes.

His dis­tri­b­u­tion was al­so key to North Car­oli­na FC’s game plan as he was sec­ond be­hind team­mate Ben Speas in chances cre­at­ed. He tout­ed an 89.4% over­all pass­ing ac­cu­ra­cy over 568 pass­es. In his half, For­tune had an as­ton­ish­ing 96.8 per cent pass­ing ac­cu­ra­cy, lead­ing the team.

Oth­er awardees in­clud­ed, Conor Dono­van “De­fen­sive Play­er of the Year”; Naz­mi Al­badawi “Lead­er­ship Award” and “Se­lect PT Come­back Play­er of the Year”, and Gra­ham Smith who was named the re­cip­i­ent of the Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vice Award for 2020.