{"id":33552,"date":"2024-05-23T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/omeruo-anoints-lookman-as-2024-caf-player-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:00:39","slug":"omeruo-anoints-lookman-as-2024-caf-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/omeruo-anoints-lookman-as-2024-caf-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Omeruo anoints Lookman as 2024 CAF Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nigeria defender, Kenneth Omeruo insists his compatriot Ademola Lookman should win the 2024 CAF Player of the Year award, DAILY POST reports.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman was the star of the show as Atalanta defeated Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the final of the UEFA Europa League on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The tricky winger scored all three goals for Gian Piero Gasperini\u2019s side in the thrilling contest.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old entered the history books as the first African to score a hat-trick in the final of a major European competition.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman also played a key role in Nigeria\u2019s second-place finish at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>The former Everton and Leicester City player scored three goals in seven outings at the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to his heroics against Bayer Leverkusen, Omeruo wrote on his social media handle:\u201d@CAF_Online your Arica Player of the Year..@ALookman_ top player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omeruo anoints Lookman as 2024 CAF Player of the Year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria defender, Kenneth Omeruo insists his compatriot Ademola Lookman should win the 2024 CAF Player of the Year award, DAILY&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15669,6477,15,3764,160],"tags":[1279,111,6478,180,3766,201],"class_list":["post-33552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-caf","category-lookman","category-news","category-omeruo","category-sport","tag-1279","tag-caf","tag-lookman","tag-news","tag-omeruo","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}