As the celebration for the 2024 CAF Africa Participant award gears up, Cameroon worldwide Flavien Enzo Boyomo is assured that Nigeria worldwide and Atalanta ahead Ademola Lookman is the favorite to win the lads’s greatest participant award, PUNCH Sports activities Further reviews.
Lookman, who made historical past as the primary participant to attain a hat-trick in a European membership competitors ultimate throughout his membership’s conquer Bayer Leverkusen final season, has been getting large backing from teammates, stakeholders and followers since CAF introduced the ultimate shortlist for the award.
Boyomo is the newest to throw his weight behind the Nigerian to assert the honour when the winner shall be introduced on the CAF Awards 2024 on December 16.
Lookman faces competitors from Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi, Algeria’s Amine Gouiri, Ivory Coast’s Simon Adingra and South Africa’s Ronwen Williams.
Regardless of the stiff competitors from different nominees, the Osasuna centre-back stays assured that the Atalanta man will win the award.
“I consider Lookman will win the African Ballon d’Or,” Boyomo was quoted saying by Actu Cameroon.
“He received the Europa League and he’s the one who has the very best likelihood of profitable the trophy this yr.”
Lookman’s nomination comes after a exceptional season that noticed him emerge as Europe’s most efficient attacking participant within the latter phases of the 2023/24 marketing campaign, registering 14 aim contributions (eight objectives and 6 assists) from April onwards, greater than some other participant throughout Europe’s high 5 leagues.
The previous Everton striker’s stellar performances reached their pinnacle within the UEFA Europa League ultimate in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen, the place he netted a historic hat-trick to crown a season that noticed him amass a formidable 17 objectives and 10 assists throughout all competitions.
The previous Everton man has continued together with his spectacular type this marketing campaign, with the Nigeria worldwide already notching 9 objectives and 5 assists in simply 16 appearances for La Dea.
Other than his historic and noteworthy Europa League exploits with Atalanta, Lookman emerged because the overwhelming favorite for the 2024 CAF Participant of the 12 months award following his 14th-placed end on the Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris in October the place he was the one African participant nominated for the award.
