Super Eagles Star Moses Simon Nominated For CAF Award
Super Eagles of Nigeria and Nantes winger Moses Simon made it into the shortlist for the 2022 CAF Awards Men’s Player of the Year for his outstanding performances in the 2021/2022 season.
The Confederation of African Football(CAF) on Thursday released the first list of nominees for the CAF Awards; featuring a 60-man shortlist for individual awards.
Moses, who had a blistering outing in the last Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, made it into the main award for the African Footballer of Year, along with the likes of Egypt’s Mohamed Salah and Senegal striker Sadio Mane who is the reigning African Footballer of the Year.
Edouard Mendy and Kalidou Koulibaly both from Senegal are also on the star-studded nomination list.
The last time a Nigerian won the African Player of Year award was in 1999 when Kanu Nwankwo was voted as the continent’s best.
Since then a couple of players like Austin Okocha, John Obi Mikel, Sunday Oliseh and even Vincent Enyeama have all come close at different times but have failed to win Africa’s highest individual award.
Akinwunmi Amoo (Young Player of the Year)
Nigerian footballer Akinwunmi Amoo, who plays for FC Copenhagen, has been nominated for the Young Player of the Year award also for his brilliant performances in the 2021/2022 season.
In the Youth Category where Amoo is nominated, he will hope to see off stiff competition from the likes of Pape Matar Sarr (Senegal & Metz) and Hannibal Mejbri (Tunisia & Manchester United) for the award.
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