Jedinak, De Vanna honoured at Australian Football Awards Lisa De Vanna. Mile Jedinak and Lisa De Vanna were named as male and female players of the year by Football Federation Australia at the Australian Football Awards in Sydney on Wednesday night, while the players' union, the PFA, gave its major prizes for male and female players of the year to ex-Melbourne Victory star Robbie Kruse and Matilda Sam Kerr. Both bodies conferred their awards at the same function. Jedinak, the Socceroos midfielder, captained Crystal Palace into the English Premier League via the play-offs, and has been one of the newly promoted team's brightest performers as it battles against relegation. De Vanna, who is now with Melbourne Victory's women's team, has just been nominated as one of the 10 contenders for FIFA's goal of the year for a spectacular overhead strike she scored for her US team Sky Blue FC. Mile Jedinak. Matilda Stephanie Catley, the Melbourne Victory women's captain, was named best female under-20 player for the second year in a row and Newcastle Jets midfielder Josh Brillante won the male division in FFA's awards.