Napoli striker Osimhen named CAF Player of the Year 

Napoli striker Victor Osimhen has been named because the CAF Males’s Participant of the Yr for 2023, largely because of his position within the Partenopei’s Serie A title win within the 2022-23 season. 

Osimhen fought off competitors from the likes of Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, Paris Saint-Germain’s Achraf Hakimi and Al-Nassr’s Sadio Mane to the title on Monday night time. 

Osimhen turns into the primary Nigerian participant to win the award since Arsenal’s Nwankwo Kanu in 1999, and can be the primary energetic Serie A participant to be topped Africa’s participant of the yr since Samuel Eto’o when he was at Inter in 2010. 

The Nigerian has loved a calendar yr full of non-public and collective accolades, an important of which was the Serie A title in 2022-23. 

Through the title-winning marketing campaign, Osimhen scored a league-leading 26 objectives from 32 Serie A appearances, accumulating the Capocannoniere award within the course of, the primary African participant to take action. 

On high of that tally, he additionally registered 5 objectives in six matches on his solution to the Champions League quarter-finals. 

Osimhen was in Morocco himself to gather the award on Monday night, having been granted the day without work from coaching with Napoli to attend the ceremony.