In the nomination of the African Player of the year award.
This is the second time for Samatta
to be nominated in the African top football award as early this year; the
player won the award for the players who based in Africa.
According to the information
released by CAF, Samatta who play for KRC Genk of Belgium will join other
prominent African players who play within and outside the continent. Some of
the players include award holder Gabonese Pierre Emerick Aubameyang who plays
for Germany’s Borussia Dortmund, Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon who plays for Turkish
Antalyaspor and Manchester City’s super star Kelechi Iheanacho of Nigeria.
Three East African countries have
players nominated in the list. Apart from Samatta of Tanzania, the others are
Kenyan Victor Wanyama who plays for Tottenham featuring in the English Premier
League and Uganda’s famous goalkeeper Dennis Onyango who plays for South
Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns which have qualified for the African Champions
league finals.
Others are Ahmed Musa (Nigeria,
Leicester City), Andre Ayew (Ghana, West Ham), Aymen Abdennour (Tunisia,
Valencia), Benjamin Mounkandjo (Cameroon, Lorient), Cedric Bakambu (DR Congo,
Villareal), Arabi Hillel Soudani (Algeria, Dinamo Zagreb), Eric Bailly (Cote
d’Ivoire, Manchester United), Hakim Ziyech (Morocco, Ajax), Islam Slimani (Algeria,Leicester
City and Itumeleng Khune of South Africa who play for Kaizer Chiefs.
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