Nigeria’s Ademola Lookman, used to be topped the Confederation of African Football’s Participant of the Year for 2024 at a glittering ceremony in the Moroccan city of Marrakech on Monday.
The Atalanta forward seen off competition from Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi, Ivorian Simon Adingra, Guinea’s Serhou Guirassy, and Ronwen Williams from South Africa, to boom the prestigious title.
The 27-365 days-outdated skool joins an smartly-known list of Nigerian footballers who have gained the award, including remaining 365 days’s winner, Victor Osimhen.
Lookman had a ravishing season, each and every alongside with his membership and for his nation, making him a hot favourite for the award.
He delivered a ravishing hat-trick for the Italian membership in the Europa League remaining, a performance that cemented his reputation as one among Europe’s elite forwards.
Lookman moreover played a actually crucial characteristic in the Huge Eagle’s second design end in the 2023 Africa Cup of International locations, scoring three targets in the tournament.
The broken-down Everton, Fulham and Leicester City participant used to be moreover the only real African on this 365 days’s men’s Ballon d’Or shortlist, finishing 14th.
Zambia’s Barbra Banda picked up the females’s award turning into the most indispensable females from her nation to rating the prize.
Banda scored four targets for Zambia on the 2024 Paris Olympics, including a hat-trick in a community-stage loss to Australia.
The striker scored 13 long-established season targets and four in play-offs for American group, Orlando Pride, serving to it to rating the US Nationwide Females’s Soccer League for the most indispensable time.
