Ademola Lookman, dan wasan kwallon kafa na Najeriya da kungiyar Atalanta, ya zama babban dan takara don samun lambar yaro na CAF na shekarar 2024. Haka yake a wata labarai da aka wallafa a ranar Alhamis, Lookman ya samu karbuwa daga masu zane-zane a shafukan sada zumunta bayan CAF ta sanar da sunayen ‘yan wasa goma da aka zaba.
Lookman ya yi tarihi a lokacin da ya zura kwallaye uku a wasan karshe na gasar Europa League, wanda ya sanya Atalanta ta doke Bayer Leverkusen a lokacin da suka ci gasar. Wannan nasarar ta sa ya zama dan wasa na farko a tarihin gasar kwallon kafa ta Turai da ya zura kwallaye uku a wasan karshe.
A shekarar da ta gabata, Lookman ya zura kwallaye 11 sannan ya taimaka wajen zura kwallaye 7 a wasanni 31 da ya buga wa Atalanta a gasar Serie A. Ya kuma zama dan wasa na Afirka daya tilo da aka zaba a cikin ‘yan wasa 30 da aka zaba don lambar yabo ta Ballon d’Or na shekarar 2024.
“Ina zaton ya yi ban mamaki lokacin da na gan sunana a cikin ‘yan wasa 30 da aka zaba don Ballon d’Or. Kuwa dan wasa na Afirka daya tilo a jerin ya sa zai fi ban mamaki,” Lookman ya ce a wata hirar da ya yi da France Football.
Lookman zai yi hamayya da dan wasan kungiyarsa William Troost-Ekong da sauran ‘yan wasa takwas, ciki har da Achraf Hakimi na Morocco da Amine Gouiri na Algeria. Wannan lambar yabo za a sanar da ita a wajen bikin CAF Awards na shekarar 2024, inda Lookman yake son ya gaje Victor Osimhen a matsayin dan wasan kwallon kafa mafi kyau a Afirka.
