Nigeria’s star striker Victor Osimhen has won the 2023 African Footballer of the Year award.
At a gala in Marrakech, Morocco, the African continental association CAF chose the 24-year-old attacker from the Italian champions SSC Napoli as the successor to the Senegalese Sadio Mané, who had been under contract with the German champions Bayern Munich when he was elected last year after great success with Liverpool FC .
In the vote, Osimhen beat the two-time election winner Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) and the ex-Dortmunder Achraf Hakimi (Paris St. Germain), who was the first African team to reach a World Cup semi-final with Morocco at the World Cup a year ago in Qatar. through.
Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o was the last African professional from an Italian first division team to receive the award in 2010 after the Champions League triumph with Inter Milan.