• Striker takes accolade after winning Golden Boot at Euro 2017 • Jordan Nobbs wins WSL Players’ Player of the Year award

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Jodie Taylor was named England’s player of the year at the Football Association’s Women’s Football Awards on Friday.

Taylor took the prize after an impressive Euro 2017 campaign in which she finished as the tournament’s Golden Boot winner with five goals and she dedicated her award to the staff and team-mates she works with as an England player.

The 31-year-old did not make her England debut until 2014, immediately after the current manager, Mark Sampson, took charge.

She said of her award: “It was worth the wait. It took a long time to get here. It’s better late than never.”

The awards dinner at the Grosvenor House hotel in London also recognised the stars of the Women’s Super League, following the recent Spring Series.

Arsenal’s England vice-captain Jordan Nobbs took the WSL Players’ Player of the Year award, with the midfielder saying it was “a very proud moment”.

The Chelsea striker Fran Kirby was rewarded for finishing as top scorer in the WSL Spring Series and Taylor was handed the Uefa Golden Boot award after her summer exploits in Holland.

Taylor said her Euro 2017 achievements, which included a hat-trick against Scotland, were a tribute to her England team-mates.

She said: “If it wasn’t for them giving me the quality service, I wouldn’t have been receiving this.”