Super Eagles forward Paul Onuachu wins Belgian League Best Player & Golden bull awards

Tremendous Eagles striker, Paul Onuachu, has received the Finest Participant and Golden Bull (highest scorer) awards within the Belgian Jupiler Professional League, capping off an insanely exceptional marketing campaign that noticed him rating 33 targets and supply three assists for KRC Genk who completed second on the log.

The 26-year-old bagged the prize on Monday evening on the Belgian Professional League Awards conventional gala held on the JAM lodge in Brussels following a shocking 2020/2021 marketing campaign through which he featured in 38 league matches and play-offs.

“Paul Onuachu can name himself the Skilled Footballer of the Jupiler Professional League for a yr,” the league wrote on its web site.

“The KRC Genk striker was voted as the very best participant of the previous season by his colleagues. Onuachu scored 33 occasions final season, making him the participant with essentially the most targets behind his identify.”

The imposing striker, who made headlines all season, bulldozed his approach to the awards after beating Membership Brugge’s Noa Lang and Beerschot’s ahead Raphael Holzhauser.

He’s additionally in rivalry for the Ebony Shoe Award for the Finest Participant of African descent within the league the place he’ll battle Congolese-born Belgian striker, Theo Batombo Bonganda; Angola’s Membership Brugge defender, Clinton Mata; Anderlecht’s Anglo-Nigerian ahead, Lukas Nmecha and Congolese-born Belgian star, Sambi Lokonga, who options for Anderlecht.

Onuachu, who previously performed for FC Midtjylland, netted 35 targets in 41 video games throughout all competitions for the Blue-White, pushing them to carry the Belgian Cup in spectacular trend.

Prior to now, he was voted into the Belgian Professional League Staff of the Season alongside a teammate, Bryan Heymen.

Gunning For Gold

The Nigerian joined the Belgian outfit from Midtjylland for a charge of €7million and his scorching type has seen him linked with a transfer away from the Luminus Enviornment with a bunch of high European sides set to jostle for his signature when the switch window opens this summer season.

Tremendous Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr will probably be banking on the scoring prowess of the Ebonyi-born striker when Nigeria tackle bitter rivals, Cameroon in a pleasant match billed for June 4th in Vienna, Austria.

Since making his debut for the three-time African champions in 2019, Onuachu has scored three targets for Nigeria, together with his maiden strike towards Egypt in a pleasant recreation that earned him the quickest objective scorer tag for the Eagles.

He’s additionally anticipated to play a distinguished position for Nigeria in subsequent yr’s African Cup of Nations (AFCON), a match he stated the crew is aiming to go the entire haul.

“We’ll simply should go there and take the gold,” he advised NFF TV after scoring the lone objective towards the Benin Republic in a qualification match for the competitors.