Streets will never forget🫡

Thomas N’Kono🇨🇲 is the only goalkeeper to have won the prestigious award in 1979.

Club with Most Wins: Barcelona and Manchester City lead for producing African POTY winners.

Didier Drogba is the the first-ever Ivorian to win the award in 2006, opening the door for the rise of other Ivory Coast legends like Yaya Touré and Gervinho.

First African POTY playing in England: Nwankwo Kanu (1999) was the first to win the award while playing in the Premier League with Arsenal🇳🇬

Gabon’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the only player from a nation with a population under 3 million to win the award (2015)🇬🇦

Yaya Touré holds the record for being nominated for 6 consecutive years (2010-2015). He also holds the record for the longest consecutive streak of winning the award, from 2011 to 2014. 🇨🇮

Eto’o’s Record 12 Nominations: Samuel Eto’o holds the record for the most African POTY nominations, appearing on the shortlist 12 times

Most Nominees from One Country in a Year: Ivory Coast (2014) had 3 players—Yaya Touré, Gervinho, and Wilfried Bony—on the final shortlist. Yaya won that year.

Record Holder: Asisat Oshoala has won it a record 5 times, the most by any player🫡

Jay-Jay Okocha: The Biggest Snub: Despite being a fan favorite and one of the most skilled players in history, Jay-Jay Okocha never won the award. He came close in 2004, finishing second to Eto’o.

End of thread, Congratulations to Ademola lookman🇳🇬 hopefully the first of so many.🫡 Don’t forget to drop us a follow for daily universal threads❤️🔥

For this video alone, it’s a W thread. Can’t forget that night in May. Kept screaming “Feed Luku the ball” all game long. Still got goosebumps watching this 👏

This was an epic and historic mstchy🎯👏🏽 Shout out @Alookman_ 🥂

Lookman single handedly won the title for Atalanta

Goosebumps wan kill me 😩

African best player…

Schooling Alonso

Lookman on the left Yamal on the right. At Barcelona 😍😍😍🤞

Brilliant ✅

Respect ✊🏾 🫡