Amoo Dedicates CAF Awards Nomination To Nigerians, Says Recognition Will Make Him Work Harder – National

Akinkunmi Amoo has devoted his Caf Awards nomination to his household, teammates, coaches, and the Nigerians whose love he ‘feels daily.

Amoo was one of many ten gamers that had been nominated for the CAF Younger Participant of the Yr award. Reacting to his nomination, the FC Copenhagen attacking midfielder advised Objective:

“I’m very glad to be amongst Caf’s checklist of the very best younger gamers in Africa. This piece of cheerful information has introduced nice pleasure to me.

“I wish to dedicate this success to my household, who at all times gave me the braveness to maneuver ahead, to my teammates who’ve helped me at all times, to all my coaches who’ve sharpened my profession, and most of all to the 200 million Nigerians whose love I really feel daily.

“With a deep sense of humility, this nomination comes as an enormous shock to me as a result of we have now so many nice abilities on the continent.”

Amoo went additional to say that he desires to win the award and that his nomination will function an enormous problem for him to proceed to work exhausting.

“Like different nominees, I wish to emerge because the winner on the d-day. That will be a factor of pleasure and pleasure for me,” the 20-year-old continued.

“It is going to additionally enhance my profile in skilled soccer. Proper now, I wish to get pleasure from this second as a result of I’ve been getting calls from family and friends who’ve been sending in congratulatory messages.

“Most significantly, this nomination is an enormous problem for me to maintain working exhausting and hold pushing.”

The awards ceremony will likely be held forward of the ultimate of Africa’s ladies’s Cup of Nations in Morocco scheduled to happen between 2 July – 23 July. The opposite nominees for the Younger Participant Of the Month prize are:

– Dango Ouattara (Burkina Faso & Lorient)

– Karim Konate (Cote d’Ivoire & ASEC/RB Salzburg)

– Jesus Owono (Equatorial Guinea & Alaves)

– James Gomez (The Gambia & AC Horsens)

– Kamaldeen Sulemana (Ghana & Rennes)

– Ilaix Moriba Kourouma (Guinea & Valencia)

– El Bilal Toure (Mali & Reims)

– Pape Matar Sarr (Senegal & Metz)

– Hannibal Mejbri (Tunisia & Manchester United).

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