Ademola Lookman, dan wasan kwallon kafa na Super Eagles na Atalanta, ya zama mai shiri don lambar yarin dan wasan CAF na 2024. Haka yake bayan ya samu nasarar da ta yi a gasar Europa League da kuma samun suna a jerin ‘yan wasa 30 da aka zaba don Ballon d’Or na 2024.
Lookman ya samu tarihi a gasar Europa League lokacin da ya zura kwallaye uku a wasan karshe da Bayer Leverkusen, wanda hakan ya sanya shi dan wasa na kwanan nan da ya zura kwallaye uku a wasan karshe na gasar Turai. A wannan shekarar, ya zura kwallaye 11 da kuma taimaka 7 a wasanni 31 da ya buga a gasar Serie A na Italiya.
Fans daga ko’ina cikin duniya suna goyon bayansa tun bayan CAF ta sanar da sunayen ‘yan wasa 10 da aka zaba. Wasu daga cikin fans suna ganin cewa lambar yarin ta kamata a ba shi ba tare da wata taro ba. @jujupunte ya rubuta a shafin X, “Wannan ba shi da mahimmanci. Suna da nufin kai lambar yarin zuwa gida na Lookman”.
Lookman zai fafata da dan uwansa William Troost-Ekong da sauran ‘yan wasa 8, ciki har da Achraf Hakimi na Morocco da Amine Gouiri na Algeria. Kodayake, rashin sunan Victor Boniface da Victor Osimhen a jerin ‘yan wasa ya janyo cece-cece tsakanin fans.
Mai nasara zai sanar a wajen taron CAF Awards 2024, inda Lookman yake da matukar burin gaje Osimhen a matsayin dan wasan Afrika mafi kyau.