Ademola Lookman, Chiamaka Nnadozie and the Tremendous Falcons have emerged as winners on the CAF Awards, Soccernet.ng studies.

Tremendous Eagles and Atalanta winger Lookman clinched the 2024 African Males’s Footballer of the Yr on the CAF Awards, which was held within the Moroccan metropolis of Marrakech on Monday evening, 18 December.

Lookman received the most important African particular person prize by beating stern competitors from Moroccan right-back Achraf Hakimi, 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) winner with Ivory Coast Simon Adingra, towering Guinean ahead Serhou Guirassy and good South African goalkeeper Ronwen Williams.

Talking shortly after scooping the award, Lookman stated: “To be recognised as the perfect participant in Africa is unbelievable.”

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Ademola Lookman’s CAF Males’s Footballer of the Yr victory: Reviewing his journey and exploits

It has been a spectacular journey for Ademola Lookman in 2024, which strongly positioned him for the CAF Males’s Participant of the Yr award.

The contributions of the 27-year-old for each membership and nation have been nothing wanting distinctive, as he notched up 28 objectives and 12 assists to this point in 2024.

Lookman performed a starring function within the Tremendous Eagles’ march to the ultimate of the 2023 AFCON, scoring three objectives and offering one help alongside the best way.

The previous Leipzig man scripted historical past by turning into the primary participant ever to attain a hat-trick in a UEFA Europa League remaining, scoring all three objectives within the victory over Bayer Leverkusen to assist Atalanta clinch their first European title since its founding in 1907.

With that feat, he turned the one participant to bag a hat-trick in a one-legged Males’s European remaining since Pierino Prati in 1969.

Lookman’s scintillating heroics pushed him to turn into the primary Atalanta participant nominated for the Ballon d’Or. He completed 14th place, turning into among the many few highest-ranked Nigerian gamers within the international particular person award ceremony.

Ademola Lookman joins an iconic listing of former CAF Participant of the Yr winners from Nigeria

Legendary Nigerian gamers have been recognised in Africa’s greatest particular person award class over time.

On this platform, fairly a variety of former and current Tremendous Eagles stars have mounted the rostrum of greatness, incomes essential recognition for his or her distinctive performances and contributions to the membership and nation within the yr underneath evaluate.

Together with his newest triumph on the CAF 2024 awards, Lookman has joined an illustrious listing of Nigerian gamers who beforehand lifted the coveted prize.

• • Rashidi Yekini – 1993

• • Emmanuel Amuneke – 1994

• • Victor Ikpeba – 1997

• • Nwankwo Kanu – 1996 & 1999

• • Victor Osimhen – 2023

• • Ademola Lookman – 2024

Tremendous Eagles fall quick however Tremendous Falcons reign supreme

The Tremendous Eagles of Nigeria had been nominated within the Males’s Nationwide Workforce of the Yr class. Nonetheless, they fell wanting the mark, because the Ivorian AFCON triumphant staff emerged because the winners of the Males’s Nationwide Workforce of the Yr.

Nonetheless, Nigeria had been to not be denied the second time, because the Tremendous Falcons clinched the Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce of the Yr prize forward of Banyana Banyana of South Africa and the Atlas Lionesses of Morocco.

And for the second time in a row, Chiamaka Nnadozie took dwelling the Ladies’s Goalkeeper of the Yr award. The Paris FC shotstopper beat Khadija Er-Rmichi of Morocco and Andile Dlamini of South Africa to scoop the award.