By Rita Orji
As highly speculated, Super Eagles star forward Ademola Lookman has made into the final five-man shortlist for the CAF player.
Also, AFCON discovery and Super Eagles goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali was named for the Goalkeeper of the Year awards. Still, defender William Troost-Ekong missed out on the final list.
CAF’s final list comes three weeks after releasing the initial long list. After a long wait CAF has officially unveiled the top five nominees in each of the men’s categories of the upcoming CAF Awards 2024, set to take place in Marrakech, Morocco by December 16.
Atalanta Europa League hero, Lookman, leads the final shortlist for the men’s Player of The Year Award along with Ivory Coast’s Simon Adingra, Guinea striker Serhou Guirassy, Morocco defender Achraf Hakimi and South Africa goalkeeper Ronwen Williams.
Chippa United goalkeeper, Nwabali, who starred for Nigeria during the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast earlier this year, will go head-to-head with Williams again for the goalkeeper’s gong along with Manchester United and Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana, Ivory Coast’s Yahia Fofana and Egypt goalkeeper Mostafa Shobeir.
Former Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro was also excluded from the final shortlist for the coach’s award which has Ivory Coast’s AFCON-winning coach Emerse Fae, Pedro Goncalves (Angola), Sebastien Desabre (DR Congo), Marcel Koller (Al Ahly) and Hugo Broos (South Africa).
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