Sevilla keeper Yassine Bounou wins Spain's Zamora Trophy

has won the Zamora Trophy ahead of Real Madrid goalkeeper

for the La Liga 2021-22 season. He is the first Sevilla player to ever win this award.

The trophy is an award that every season goes to the goalkeeper who has the lowest goals-to-games ratio in the La Liga.

The 31 year old Bounou finished the season with 24 goals conceded in 31 matches played, which is 0.77 goals per game. Courtois occupied the second position courtesy of his coefficient of 0.81 in the last season.

Bounou recently said he rather win titles with

than individual honors.

“The most important thing is to continue to improve so that Sevilla can find its very best version of Bounou and I feel think by doing that, maybe I could win prizes,” he said.

“My main objective is to be the goalkeeper that Sevilla needs and winning [the Zamora trophy] is something extra.

“I am thinking about the team needs and not personal needs.

“One day when I was talking to [Thibaut] Courtois, he said to me that: ‘are you going to win the Zamora prize because you are in the running?’, then I said ‘I would rather win La Liga that the Zamora prize’ because it makes everyone feel so much better."

Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak won this award for the 2020-21 league season.

Bounou recently won the newly introduced La Liga Santander Mid-Season African MVP Award, beating Samuel Chukwueze and compatriot Youssef En-Nesyri.

Seville finished the La Liga season in the fourth position and will play in the next season of the Champions League.

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