The Confederation of African Football (CAF) have out-doored the list of young best male footballers, who were exceptional in the 2023/24 football season.
After all the criteria for determining the list of young best footballers have been considered, only ten players made it for the cut out of the millions of young African footballers who are in the process of developing their talents in order to stake a claim in the legendary books of football.
Following that, one Ghanaian, Abdul Aziz Issah, the former Dreams FC player who now plays for the youth side of Spanish club, FC Barcelona.
Abdul Aziz Issah was an instrumental figure for the Ghana premier league club, Dreams FC’s extraordinary exploits on the continent during last season. The left footed attacking midfielder who could also play as a right attacking-forward in Dreams FC’s CAF Confederation Cup 2023/24 tournament.
His impact on the team led the team into the semi-finals and only failed to qualify for the finale after they were booted out of the competition by a much North-African experienced side, Raja Casablanca from Morocco.
Dreams FC were successful in keeping a clean-sheet in the first leg at the home grounds of Raja Casablanca and could not out-do themselves at Kumasi only for them to be smashed and humbled in a 3:0 score line.
That not withstanding, Abdul Aziz Issah exited the tournament with four goals to his credit, which was enough to make him the top goal-scorer of the 2023/24 CAF Confederation Cup competition.
Below are the full list of best young African Players:
(1) Carlos Baleba
(2) Karim Konate
(3) Oumar Diakite
(4) Yankuba Minteh
(5) Abdul Aziz Issah
(6) Bilal El Khannouss
(7) Eliesse Ben Seghir
(8) El Hadji Malick Diouf
(9) Lamine Camara
(10) Amanaliah Memmiche
Meanwhile, Abdul Aziz Issah including his team mate during his time at Dreams FC, John Antwi have also been nominated for the Men’s Interclub Player of the year in the upcoming 2024 Confederation of African Football (CAF) awards.
Below is the full list of Interclub Player of the year list: