As the birthday celebration for the 2024 CAF Africa Participant award gears up, Cameroon global Flavien Enzo Boyomo is assured that Nigeria global and Atalanta ahead Ademola Lookman is the favorite to win the boys’s absolute best participant award, PUNCH Sports activities Difference reviews.
Lookman, who made historical past as the primary participant to attain a hat-trick in a Ecu membership pageant ultimate all over his membership’s conquer Bayer Leverkusen latter season, has been getting large backing from teammates, stakeholders and enthusiasts since CAF introduced the general shortlist for the award.
Boyomo is the actual to throw his weight in the back of the Nigerian to assert the celebrate when the winner shall be introduced on the CAF Awards 2024 on December 16.
Lookman faces pageant from Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi, Algeria’s Amine Gouiri, Ivory Coast’s Simon Adingra and South Africa’s Ronwen Williams.
In spite of the stiff pageant from alternative nominees, the Osasuna centre-back left-overs assured that the Atalanta guy will win the award.
“I believe Lookman will win the African Ballon d’Or,” Boyomo used to be quoted announcing by way of Actu Cameroon.
“He won the Europa League and he is the one who has the best chance of winning the trophy this year.”
Lookman’s nomination comes nearest a important season that noticed him emerge as Europe’s maximum fruitful attacking participant within the utmost phases of the 2023/24 marketing campaign, registering 14 objective contributions (8 targets and 6 assists) from April onwards, greater than any alternative participant throughout Europe’s supremacy 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 ancient hat-trick to crown a season that noticed him amass an noteceable 17 targets and 10 assists throughout all competitions.
The previous Everton guy has endured together with his noteceable method this marketing campaign, with the Nigeria global already notching 9 targets and 5 assists in simply 16 appearances for Los angeles Dea.
Except for his ancient and important Europa League exploits with Atalanta, Lookman emerged as the overpowering favorite for the 2024 CAF Participant of the Presen award following his 14th-placed end on the Ballon d’Or rite in Paris in October the place he used to be the one African participant nominated for the award.