{"id":55372,"date":"2024-10-24T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lookman-osimhen-make-30-man-shortlist-for-2024-iffhs-award\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T07:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T07:04:38","slug":"lookman-osimhen-make-30-man-shortlist-for-2024-iffhs-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lookman-osimhen-make-30-man-shortlist-for-2024-iffhs-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lookman, Osimhen make 30-man shortlist for 2024 IFFHS award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles duo, Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen are among the nominees for the 2024 International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) Men\u2019s World Best Player.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian stars are among the 30 nominees for the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman was the star of Atalanta\u2019s UEFA Europa League success last season.<\/p>\n<p>The talented winger scored a hat-trick in Gian Piero Gasperini\u2019s side final victory over Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old also scored three goals in seven appearances for NigerIa at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen was on target 15 times in 25 league appearances for Napoli last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old is currently on loan at Turkish Super Lig champions, Galatasaray.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City forward, Erling Haaland won the award last season.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman, Osimhen make 30-man shortlist for 2024 IFFHS award<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles duo, Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen are among the nominees for the 2024 International Federation of Football History&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6477,15,1557,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lookman","category-news","category-osimhen","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55372","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=55372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}