African Ballon d’Or 2024: CAF’s surprise announcement!

Four days before the CAF Awards ceremony, Monday December 16 in Marrakech (Morocco), which will notably recognize the African Player of the Year, more commonly known as the African Ballon d’Or, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has reserved a surprise this Thursday.

During the day, after having listed the 3 finalists in each category, the Pan-African body had indeed arranged to meet from 7 p.m. GMT to discover the identity of the finalists in the categories of Male and Female Player of the Year.
CAF complied with the exercise for women by announcing that Saana Mssoudy (Morocco), Chiamaka Nnadozie (Nigeria) and Barbra Banda (Zambia) are now the only ones in the running to compete for the title of African Player of the year. On the other hand, the authority surprised a few minutes later by publishing, among the men, a video including not the 3 lucky ones, as expected… but the 5 finalists already communicated on November 18!
CAF explained that it had decided to keep Simon Adingra (Ivory Coast), Serhou Guirassy (Guinea), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Ademola Lookman (Nigeria) and Ronwen Williams (Africa) in the race until D-Day. from the South)! A decision which marks a break with the way things have worked in recent years.