The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has revealed the 5 finalists for the 2024 African Player of the Year trophy, equivalent to the African Ballon d'Or, and PSG right-back Achraf Hakimi is named.
If it had started badly with an elimination in the round of 16 of the CAN with Morocco, the calendar year 2024 of Achraf Hakimi is generally successful with a title of champion of France gleaned with PSG, a victory in the Coupe de France, a bronze medal at the Olympic Games as well as a place in the last four of the Champions League.
Considered one of the best in the world at his right-back position, Hakimi is part of the executives of PSG and the Moroccan selection and it is therefore no great surprise that he is one of the five finalists for the African Player trophy of the year 2024. A trophy awarded since 1992 by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and which replaced the African Ballon d'Or, which had been awarded from 1970 to 1994 by France Football.
Weah, the one and only African Ballon d'Or of PSG
The winner of the 2024 African Ballon d'Or will be known on December 16 during a ceremony in Marrakech, Morocco, and Achraf Hakimi's four competitors are named Simon Adingra (Brighton/Ivory Coast), Serhou Guirassy (Stuttgart/Dortmund/Guinea), Ademola Lookman (Atalanta/Nigeria) and Ronwen Williams (Mamelodi Sundowns/South Africa). Author of a hat-trick in the final of the last Europa League, which he won with Atalanta Bergamo, and finalist of the CAN with Nigeria, Ademola Lookman is undoubtedly Hakimi's biggest competitor.
Won in recent years by players like Sadio Mané, Mohamed Salah, Riyad Mahrez and even Yaya Touré and Didier Drogba, the African Ballon d'Or has only been won once by a PSG player. It was 30 years ago, in 1994, and the big winner was George Weah, who had already won it for the first time in 1989 when he played for AS Monaco. Will Hakimi succeed him on the list? Response on December 16 in Morocco, which will host the next CAN from December 21, 2025 to January 18, 2026.
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