{"id":2602,"date":"2023-11-17T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/caf-awards-2023-osimhen-makes-mens-player-of-the-year-top-10-cut\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:10:01","slug":"caf-awards-2023-osimhen-makes-mens-player-of-the-year-top-10-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/caf-awards-2023-osimhen-makes-mens-player-of-the-year-top-10-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF Awards 2023: Osimhen makes Men\u2019s Player of the Year Top 10 cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nigeria forward, Victor Osimhen has been included in the 10-man shortlist for the 2023 CAF Men\u2019s Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football announced the nominees on their official X platform on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that CAF released a 30-man shortlist for the award two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The list is expected to be further pruned to three before the award ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen is the overwhelming favourite to claim the award following a superb 2022\/23 campaign for Napoli.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international scored 26 goals in 32 league appearances to help the Partenopei win their first league title in over three decades.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old registered five more goals in the UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The striker was also the top scorer in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series with 10 goals.<\/p>\n<p>His Napoli teammates, Frank Zambo-Anguissa, Vincent Aboubacar, Riyad Mahrez, Mohamed Salah and Achraf Hakimi are also on the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Other nominees are Sadio Mane, Yassine Bounou, Sofyan Amrabat and Yousef En-Nesyri.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Marrakech, Morocco will host the 2023 CAF Awards Gala on December 11.<\/p>\n<p>CAF Awards 2023: Osimhen makes Men\u2019s Player of the Year Top 10 cut<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria forward, Victor Osimhen has been included in the 10-man shortlist for the 2023 CAF Men\u2019s Player of the Year.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4448,15,1557,160],"tags":[210,928,111,180,1560,201],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caf-awards-2023","category-news","category-osimhen","category-sport","tag-210","tag-awards","tag-caf","tag-news","tag-osimhen","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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