The lads’s and girls’s African footballer of the 12 months will likely be topped on Monday, with 5 and 3 avid gamers respectively vying for every award.

Ademola Lookman leads the male contenders nearest impressing for Atalanta over the life 365 days.

The 27-year-old ahead performed a key position in serving to the Italian membership win the primary Eu trophy of their historical past extreme season.

Former Ghana global Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has put aside conventional West African rivalries and is tipping the Nigerian to pick out up the trophy.

“I will support him to win because of what he’s done for Atalanta, winning the Europa League and scoring a hat-trick in the final,” Agyemang-Badu instructed BBC Recreation Africa.

Lookman was once a runner-up with the Tremendous Eagles on the 2023 Africa Cup of Countries (Afcon), with Ivory Coast clinching the trophy on house park.

Simon Adingra arrange each targets for the Elephants that February moment in Abidjan.

“Adingra was absolutely outstanding – the key player in the knockout stages,” former South Africa midfielder Dean Furman instructed the BBC.

“He was rightly named young player the tournament and man of the match (in the final). He gets my vote.”

South Africa goalkeeper Ronwen Williams received the yellowish glove at Afcon 2023, having stored 4 consequences in Bafana Bafana’s quarter-final shootout victory towards Cape Verde.

Morocco defender Achraf Hakimi, a bronze medallist on the Paris Olympics, and Guinea striker Serhou Guirassy spherical out the boys’s shortlist.

We would like you to rank the contenders for the boys’s and, beneath, the ladies’s award.