'You pinch yourself a little bit at what you've achieved'

Kyle Walker with Fifpro Men's Best XI awardImage source, Getty Images
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Defender Kyle Walker says Manchester City have the "mentality" to keep winning trophies.

The right-back was named in the Fifpro's Men's World XI at The Best Fifa Football Awards on Monday night.

He was included alongside team-mates Ruben Dias, John Stones, Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland in the year that the team won the FA Cup, Premier League and Champions League Treble.

"It's incredible when you look and you pinch yourself a little bit at what you've achieved as a collective," the 33-year-old said at the award ceremony.

"I've always said this, we're in a team sport and we went on and won the FA Cup, obviously the Premier League and then the big one was the Champions League which we all wanted to tick off our list.

"It was a fantastic achievement which we can look back for many years to come and say we did it in the way we did as well with good football."

City are in a position to defend all three trophies and Walker has credited manager Pep Guardiola - who won the Men's Coach of the Year award - for giving the players the belief to keep winning.

"It's always about 'can you go on and replicate what you did last year?'" added the England international.

"People keep saying to us 'how do you keep going on winning?' I think that's just the mentality we have as a group of players and especially the manager, he's a big driving force in that.

"We just try and follow his orders. It just shows how dedicated we are to the game, we want to win every competition."

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