The Egyptian end of Liverpool Mohamed Salahthe Nigerian forward of Naples Victor Osimhen and the Moroccan side of PSG Achraf Hakimi They are the three players nominated for the African Ballon d’Or 2023. This was announced this Thursday by the African Football Confederation (CAF). Salah already has two on his record: the ones from 2017 and 2018.
The name of the winner will be announced next Monday, December 11 in Marrakech. The winner of the African Ballon d’Or will take over from Sadio Manecurrently in Al-Nassr of Saudi Arabia and he conquered it in 2022 and 2019.
Osimhenkey to the ‘scudetto’ won by Naples in 2022-23 (he is the top scorer in Serie A with 26 goals) and which with his team reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and wrongwhich returns to its best level in Liverpoolare the first African players in the classification of the last Ballon d’Or (Osimhen, 8th and Salah, 11th). Said Ballon d’Or went to Leo Messithe eighth of his career.
Ashraf, For his part, he is one of the stars of the great performance of Morocco at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar: they became the first African team to reach the semifinals of the tournament, where they lost 2-0 against France. Yassine Bono, goalkeeper from Morocco and currently in Saudi Al-Hilal, was nominated for the best goalkeeper, along with André Onana (Manchester United, Cameroon) and Mohamed El Shenawy (Al Ahly / Egypt).
Source: La Verdad
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