CAF POTY: Osimhen competes against players from Nottingham Forest, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham, and 23 others.
Victor Osimhen is one of the most prolific forwards in European football, having helped Napoli to their third Scudetto victory and the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League in the past year. He has been nominated alongside Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, Arsenal midfield stalwart Thomas Partey, Manchester United midfielder Sofyan Amrabat, and Tottenham Hotspur midfielders Yves Bissouma and Pape Matar Sarr.
The player for the Nigeria national team received a nomination for the Ballon d’Or and placed eighth, which was the highest ranking of any African player and the highest place a Nigerian player has ever held in the award’s history.With Nwankwo Kanu’s victory in 1999, Osimhen hopes to become the first Nigerian to take home the prize.Previous Nigerian winners of the CAF POTY include Victor Ikpeba (1997), Emmanuel Amunike (1994), and Rashidi Yekini (1993).
complete list of honorees Men’s Player of the Year
1. Borussia Dortmund and Algeria’s Ramy Bensebaini
2. Al Ahli and Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez
3. Edmond Tapsoba (Bayer Leverkusen and Burkina Faso)
4. Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa (SSC Napoli and Cameroon).
5. Vincent Aboubacar (Besiktas and Cameroon)
6. Ibrahima Sangare (Nottingham Forest and the Côte d’Ivoire)
7. Seko Fofana (Al Nassr and Côte d’Ivoire)
Chancel Mbemba (DR Congo and Olympique Marseille) in position eight
9. Fiston Mayele (Pyramids and the DR Congo)
10. Egypt and Ahly’s Mahmoud Abdel Moneim “Kahraba”
11. Mohamed Abdelmonem, who is from Al Ahly and Egypt
12. Mohamed ElShenawy (Al Ahly and Egypt)
Mohamed Salah, a Liverpool and Egypt player
14. Mohammed Kudus (West Ham United and Ghana)
15. Arsenal’s Thomas Partey (Ghana)
16. Serhou Guirassy (VfB Stuttgart and Guinea)
17. Tottenham Hotspur and Mali’s Yves Bissouma
18. Paris Saint-Germain and Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi
19. Olympique Marseille and Morocco’s Azzedine Ounahi
20. Hakim Ziyech, who is from Galatasaray and Morocco
21. Sofyan Amrabat, who plays for Manchester United and Morocco
22. Wydad Athletic Club and Morocco’s Yahya Jabrane
23. Yassine Bounou (Al Hilal and Morocco)
24- Youssef En-Nesyri (Sevilla and Morocco)
25. Peter Shalulile (Mamelodi Sundowns and Namibia)
26. Victor Osimhen (SSC Napoli and Nigeria)
