In sports, a Most Valuable Player (MVP) award is an honor typically bestowed upon the best performing player or players on a specific team, in an entire league, or for a particular contest or series of contests. Initially used in professional sports, the term is now also commonly used in amateur sports, as well as in other completely unrelated fields of endeavor such as business and music awards. A similar award in some sports, such as soccer, is man of the match. The term Most Valuable Player is most often used in the United States. Because of the proliferation of women's team sports, eg. women's football (soccer), the term Man of the Match is now seen as inappropriate, and is gradually being replaced by MVP. As the term MVP is awarded by coaches and team mates, the V should represent 'valued' not 'valuable'. To say a player is most valuable would be to imply his or her resale value is the highest. In fact the award is given to t