{"id":4097,"date":"2023-11-02T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/11\/02\/read_news-phpnid49306\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:11:42","slug":"read_news-phpnid49306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/11\/02\/read_news-phpnid49306\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstars in the making: Gift Orban battles Bournemouth winger, 8 others for CAF men&#8217;s Young POTY:: All Nigeria Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/70589Orban.png\" height=\"211\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Superstars in the making: Gift Orban battles Bournemouth winger, 8 others for CAF men's Young POTY\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2023 Super Eagles invitee Gift Orban has been nominated for the CAF men&#8217;s Young Player of the Year award for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was nominated alongside Bournemouth winger\u00a0Dango Ouattara, former Barcelona forward Abdessamad Ezzalzouli and seven others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Completing the ten-player shortlist are\u00a0Souleymane Alio (New Stars FC\/Burkina Faso), Ernest Nuamah (Lyon\/Ghana), \u00a0Bilal El Khannouss (Genk\/Morocco), and the Senegalese quartet of Lamine Camara (Metz), Papa Amadou Diallo (Metz), Pape Diop (Zulte Waregem) and Amara Diouf (G\u00e9n\u00e9ration Foot).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOrban has been rewarded for his goalscoring form which has seen him earn interest from clubs in the top five European Leagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nLittle was known about the 21-year-old until his move to Jupiler Pro League outfit Gent in January but has since become a familiar name.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The diminutive center forward has mustered 27 goals and two assists in 38 games for the Belgian side since he made his debut for the club in February.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOrban also entered the UEFA history book by scoring the fastest hat-trick ever in any European competition courtesy of his three strikes against Istanbul Basaksehir.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While his form in recent months has nosedived, there is no surprise that he is on the list.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embeddedContent oembed-provider- oembed-provider-twitter\" data-align=\"none\" data-oembed=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAF_Online\/status\/1719645453300744490\" data-oembed_provider=\"twitter\" data-resizetype=\"noresize\" data-title=\"m\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">10 superstars in the making. \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<p>Your nominees for Young Player of the Year (MEN) award.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CAFAwards2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#CAFAwards2023<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f9lTsw3YA8\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/f9lTsw3YA8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 CAF (@CAF_Online) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAF_Online\/status\/1719645453300744490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">November 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abdulkareem Abdulhamid<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAll rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from allnigeriasoccer.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=49306\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Super Eagles invitee Gift Orban has been nominated for the CAF men&#8217;s Young Player of the Year award for the first time in his career. \u00a0 He was nominated alongside Bournemouth winger\u00a0Dango Ouattara, former Barcelona forward Abdessamad Ezzalzouli and seven others. \u00a0 Completing the ten-player shortlist are\u00a0Souleymane Alio (New Stars FC\/Burkina Faso), Ernest Nuamah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}