Super Eagles midfielders, Moses Simon and Akinkunmi Amoo
have been shortlisted in the nominees’ list for the Confederation of African
Football Awards 2022.
CAF released the list of nominees in different categories
for male footballers on Thursday with Africa Cup of Nations winner Sadio Mane,
and former Liverpool teammate, Mohammed Salah making the nominees’ list.
Simon, who plies his trade in France with FC Nantes, was the
only Nigerian player nominated in the Player of The Year (Men) category.
The Jos-born speedster was pivotal to Nantes 2021/22 season,
where they finished ninth in the Ligue 1 and won the Coupe de France after
beating Nice in the final.
Amoo, on the other hand, was nominated in the Young Player
of the Year (Men) category alongside nine others.
The 20-year-old won the Danish Super Liga with FC Copenhagen
in the 2021/22 season having come from Swedish side Hammarby, where he won the
Svenska Cupen in 2020.
Amoo was part of the Nigerian U-17 squad which competed at
the CAF U-17 AFCON and the FIFA U-17 World Cup both in 2019, and later promoted
to the senior team.
Meanwhile, the 30-man Men’s Player of The Year category was
notably missing Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen who plays at Napoli in the
Italian Serie A.
Osimhen, with the Super Eagles, failed to qualify for the
Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, and were knocked out in the Round of 16 at the 2021
AFCON by Tunisia.
Nigeria also missed out of the nomination in the Men’s
National Team of the Year category with Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros, Egypt,
Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, and Tunisia making the
cut.
Some of the players who made the Men’s Player of the Year
nominees list include, Riyad Mahrez, Bertrand Traore, Andre-Frank Zambo
Anguissa (Cameroon & Napoli), Karl Toko Ekambi, Vincent Aboubacar, Franck
Kessie, Sebastien Haller, Mohamed ElNeny, Mohamed Salah, Musa Barrow, Naby
Keita, Yves Bissouma, Achraf Hakimi, Edouard Mendy, Kalidou Koulibaly, and
Sadio Mane.
The awards ceremony will hold on July 21, 2022, in Morocco.
The CAF Awards 2022 will be held before the final of the
Africa Women Cup of Nations in Morocco, scheduled to take place from July 2 to
July 23.
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