The Tremendous Eagles striker has had a implausible 12 months, and he has been rewarded with a nomination by CAF
Tremendous Eagles striker Reward Orban has been nominated within the Younger Participant of the 12 months class of the upcoming CAF Awards, Soccernet stories.
Orban has had a implausible 12 months at Belgian Jupiler Professional League facet Gent. The 21-year-old ahead joined the Buffalos from Norwegian lower-tier facet Stabaek, and he has been a revelation since then. Orban has registered 27 objectives and two assists in 38 video games for Gent.
His performances haven’t gone unnoticed, as he has received a nationwide crew call-up and has been linked with a switch to different larger golf equipment like Lille, Tottenham, and Barcelona, albeit none of these talks have come to fruition.
Orban has also now been nominated for the CAF Young Player of the Year. He’s the one Nigerian on the record. He has competitors from Burkina Faso kids Dango Ouattara (Bournemouth), Souleymane Alio (New Stars), Ghana star Ernest Nuamah (Olympique Lyonnais), Morocco prodigies Abdessamad Ezzalzouli (Betis), Bilal El Khannous (Genk) Reward Orban, and Senegal gamers Lamine Camara (Era Foot/Metz), Pape Amadou Diallo (Era Foot/Metz), Pape Demba Diop (Zulte Waregem), and Amara Diouf (Era Foot).
The award is just for gamers aged 21 and beneath, and the final Nigerian to win it was Alex Iwobi. In the meantime, Napoli star Victor Osimhen remains to be a frontrunner for the CAF Males’s Participant of the 12 months award.