2024-12-16 20:40:00
Author of a hat-trick in the Europa League final with Atalanta Bergamo, striker Ademola Lookman won the award for the first time in his career.
Ademola Lookman succeeds Victor Osimhen. The Nigerian striker of Atalanta Bergamo, finalist of the last African Cup of Nations and author of a historic hat-trick in the Europa League final last May, received on Monday the African Footballer of the Year award awarded by the African Football Confederation ( CAF).
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Hakimi beat in Marrakech
Lookman (27), 14th in the Ballon d’Or and again an author last week in the Champions League against Real Madrid (2-3), beat the Moroccan Achraf Hakimi of PSG, who was hoping to triumph at home in Marrakech while watching of its president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi -, Serhou Guirassy (Guinea, VfB Stuttgart then Borussia Dortmund), Simon Adingra (Costa d’Ivoire, Brighton) and Ronwen Williams (South Africa, Mamelodi Sundowns).
During the evening, AS Monaco’s Senegalese Lamine Camara (20 years old) won the title of best hope, Zambian Barbara Banda won the women’s Ballon d’Or. African champion with Ivory Coast at the end of an incredible competition, Emerse Faé was, not surprisingly, elected coach of the year.
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