Nigerian striker Victor Boniface has been nominated for Globe Soccer's Emerging Player of the Year Award, along with several other youngsters.
Super Eagles striker Victor Boniface has been nominated for the Emerging Player of the Year category in the Globe Soccer Awards.
The Bayer Leverkusen striker carried on his incredible form from last season with Union Saint-Gillopise which earned him a place in the Europa League team of the season, into this campaign.
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He has scored seven league goals this season with five assists to keep Bayer Leverkusen at the top of the log. The awards have also been coming his way, as he has won a Bundesliga Player of the Month award and three consecutive Rookie of the Month gongs.
Boniface and the other nominees
The Ondo-born striker has had a good year, but he will have to go up against some stiff competition. Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham and Eduardo Camavinga and the Barcelona quartet of Lamine Yamal, Pedri, Gavi and Alejandro Balde are also in the run-in.
The full list of nominees: Saud Abdulhamid, Firas Al-Buraikan, Thiago Almada, António Silva, Tommaso Baldanzi, Alejandro Balde, Jude Bellingham, Victor Boniface, Moises Caicedo, Eduardo Camavinga, Cesare Casadei, Ousmane Diomande, Jeremy Doku, Enzo Fernandez, Omad Fayed, Evan Ferguson, Gavi, Arda Guler, Josko Gvardiol, Rasmus Hojlund, Jamal Musiala, Pedri, Xavi Simons, Mathys Tel, Florian Wirtz, Lamine Yamal, and Warren Zaire-Emery.
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