Soccer-Nigeria Striker Osimhen Crowned African Footballer Of The Year – News18

Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen has been named African Footballer of the Year after beating Mohamed Salah to the award at a ceremony in Marrakech on Monday, with compatriot Asisat Oshoala profitable the highest prize within the ladies’s class.

Osimhen, 24, scored 26 objectives as he helped Napoli to a shock triumph in Serie A final season and was the main marksmen in Italy’s prime division.

Egypt’s Liverpool ahead Salah and Morocco’s Paris St Germain proper-again Achraf Hakimi have been the opposite two ultimate nominees however Osimhen claimed the prize to develop into the primary Nigerian winner since Nwankwo Kanu in 1999.

“It is a dream come true. I have to thank everybody who has helped me on this journey and all Africans who have helped to put me on the map despite my faults,” Osimhen stated.

Morocco gained National Team of the Year within the males’s class after their thrilling run to the World Cup semi-finals in Qatar, whereas their supervisor Walid Regragui gained Coach of the Year.

Nigeria’s Barcelona ahead Oshoala was the ladies’s African Footballer of the Year for a document sixth time, having battled harm to assist her facet to the spherical of 16 on the World Cup in Australia & New Zealand the place they took England to penalties.

Nigeria took residence the trophy for National Team of the Year, however South Africa’s Desiree Ellis gained ladies’s Coach of the Year for the fourth time in succession.

(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)