Super Eagles star ends 13-year FCGB jinx to claim French Ligue 2 honour

Former French midfield ace Yoann Gourcuff was the final star of the Marines and Whites to be recognised because the league’s greatest

Nigerian ahead Josh Maja has been named the winner of the French Ligue 2 Participant of the Month award for October.

The one-cap Tremendous Eagles striker’s excellent performances for Girondins Bordeaux in Ligue 2 noticed him beat Le Havre’s Gautier Lloris and Stade Lavallois’ Julien Maggiotti to the celebrated honour.

Maja has been in glorious kind for Bordeaux this time period, with the previous Sunderland striker netting seven league objectives and offering three assists.

The 23-year-old scored two of these objectives in October within the 2-1 win at Laval and the 2-0 dwelling conquer Metz to assist Bordeaux safe three victories and one draw Within the 4 matches performed throughout the interval.

By choosing up the person prize, Maja turns into the primary Bordeaux participant to win the league’s greatest participant award this season.

The younger centre-forward ends a 13-year jinx at Les Girondins, changing into the primary Bordeaux star to take the award since Frenchman Yoann Gourcuff claimed it in April 2009.

Bordeaux had been relegated from the French top-flight final season, however the Marines and Whites are on target for an instantaneous return to Ligue 1.

David Guion’s males sit in second place on the league desk after eight wins and 4 attracts in 15 matches.

In the meantime, elsewhere, Tremendous Eagles striker Victor Osimhen has been named the winner of World Soccer’s ‘Rising Participant of the 12 months’ award.

The Napoli man edged Barcelona wonderkid Gavi and Actual Madrid’s Federico Valverde to the honour. 

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