Anger In Morocco Over Lookman Beating Hakimi To African Player Of The Year Award
Outrage in Morocco over Lookman beating Chart book Lions chief Hakimi to African Player of the Year
Moroccan football specialists have responded to Map book Lions captain Achraf Hakimi passing up the 2024 African Footballer of the Year.
Atalanta’s Nigeria worldwide Ademola Lookman asserted the African Player of the Year title, succeeding Victor Osimhen at the 2024 CAF Grants in Marrakech, Morocco on Monday night.
Lookman propelled Atalanta to win the Europa Association, scoring a memorable full go-around against Bayer Leverkusen in the show-stopper, the primary title won by the Italian club in Europe.
The 27-year-old likewise assumed a critical part as Nigeria arrived at the last of the 2023 Africa Cup of Countries, enlisting three objectives and a help and he was named in the authority Group of the Competition.
Reports from Morocco and France over the course of the end of the week proposed that Hakimi was the leader for the African Footballer of the Year honor, however it was subsequently declared that Lookman had won the most renowned individual honor on the African mainland.
Some Moroccan football writers thought of it as out of line that Lookman was picked over Hakimi as the best African player.
Moroccan games expert Tawfiq Al-Sanhaji told 365scores: “It is an extraordinary lament for every single Moroccan fan, and for every one of the people who follow football in Morocco, on the grounds that Achraf Hakimi gave recognized levels all through the year the Moroccan public group and Paris Holy person Germain.”
Abdel Salam Kourahi condemned the Confederation of African Football, expressing: “Maybe there were understandings, estimations and divisions inside CAF that steered the results for the Nigerian over the Moroccan global without a second to spare.”
Some Moroccan football fans brought up that Yassine Bounou assumed an essential part in Sevilla’s Europa Association wins in 2020 and 2023, yet he was disregarded for the African Footballer of the Year grant.
Lookman’s African Player of the Year win denotes the first time in quite a while that Nigeria has created consecutive champs of the men’s honor, since Nwankwo Kanu and Victor Ikpeba were regarded in 1996 and 1997 separately.
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