{"id":472652,"date":"2023-12-12T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472652"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:38:13","slug":"osimhen-awarded-african-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/osimhen-awarded-african-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Osimhen awarded African player of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Osimhen has been awarded with the African player of the year earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udf0d From Young Player of the Year to Best African Player of the Year: Victor Osimhen \u2728<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 Victor Osimhen<br \/>\ud83e\udd48 Mo Salah<br \/>\ud83e\udd49 Achraf Hakimi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cWuL3lasCu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cWuL3lasCu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1734508849795588347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian travelled to Morocco to collect his prize just before the Champions League game on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen was instrument in Napoli&#8217;s championship winning year, helping them lift the title for the first time in 33 years.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria completed a double victory as Asisat Oshoala won the best women\u2019s player honor for a record sixth time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate Africa for putting me on the map, for encouraging me, for defending me regardless of my shortcomings,\u201d the 24-year-old Osimhen said in his acceptance speech.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen bagged 26 goals for Napoli last season to inspire them to glorious title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Osimhen has been awarded with the African player of the year earlier on Monday. \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udf0d From Young Player of the Year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":472653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17273],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[18358],"acf":{"announce":"The Napoli striker has really hit form in 2021","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472654,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472652\/revisions\/472654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472652"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472652"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}