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CAF Awards 2022: Kamaldeen Sulemana makes final list in Young Player of the Year category

By : cd on 12 Jul 2022, 12:58     |     Source: christian ahorgah

Kamaldeen Sulemana,

Black Star winger Kamaldeen Sulemana has made the final list of CAF Awards nominees for Young Player of the Year.

The Rennes star is competing with four others for CAF’s 2022 Men Young Player of the Year.

The CAF Awards 2022 will be held in Rabat, Morocco on 21 July 2022.

The winners of each category will be decided by a voting panel made up of CAF Technical Committee, media professionals, Head Coaches & Captains of Member Associations and clubs involved at the group stage of the Interclub competitions for the 2021/22 season.

The 20-year-old was recently shortlisted among the top ten U-23 players in Europe’s top 5 leagues, according to the CIES Football Observatory.

CAF also released a star-studded final list of nominees for the men’s categories of the CAF Awards 2022, with some of the elite performers in the last few months making the top list.

The list includes reigning CAF African Player of the Year Sadio Mane (Senegal and Bayern Munich), former winner Riyad Mahrez (Algeria and Manchester City), Mohamed Salah (Egypt and Liverpool), amongst others.