{"id":3763,"date":"2024-12-16T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2024-12-16T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:46:13","slug":"ademola-lookman-crowned-africas-football-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/ademola-lookman-crowned-africas-football-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Ademola Lookman crowned Africa&#8217;s football king\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3765\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/OIF-1-300x214.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/OIF-1-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/OIF-1.jpeg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ademola Lookman<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Amah<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kindly share:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Super Eagles winger, Ademola Lookman, has emerged as the winner of the CAF Footballer of the Year Award the past year.\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ademola, who plies his craft with Atalanta, dusted Ivory Coast\u2019s Simon Adingra and PSG\u2019s Achraf Hakimi, Guinea striker Serhou Guirassy and South Africa goalkeeper Ronwen Williams to grab the covered trophy at an elaborate event in Marrakech, Morocco on Monday night<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nLookman became the first player to score a hat-trick in the Europa League\/UEFA Cup final since 1975, netting the three goals within 26 minutes against Bayer Leverkusen in an incredibly beautiful year for the striker.<\/p>\n<p>He was also included in the Team of the Year for the Europa League and was ranked the 14th best player during the Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony on October 28.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ademola Lookman By Amah Kindly share: Super Eagles winger, Ademola Lookman, has emerged as the winner of the CAF Footballer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,2,14],"tags":[656,959],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-showbiz","category-news","category-sports","tag-ademola-lookman","tag-caf-african-footballer-of-the-year-awards"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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