Odion Jude Ighalo has won the
highest goal scorer award at the just concluded 2019 Africa Cup of Nations on
Friday night.
The Super Eagles star scored five
goals in the 32nd edition of the African football showpiece in Egypt.
Ighalo becomes the second Eagles
player, after the late Rashidi Yekini-Jay Jay Okocha era to have won the golden
boots award at the AFCON.
He also becomes the sixth
Nigerian after Segun Odegbami, Rasheed Yekini, Julius Aghaowa, Jay-Jay Okocha
and Emmanuel Emenike to win this prize.
The Shanghai Shenhua of China
star striker scored in the third minute of play in the third-place match
between Nigeria and Tunisia on Wednesday night.
He scored a total of five goals
at the 2019 AFCON.
He scored his debut AFCON goal in
Nigeria’s first group B game against Burundi. He got himself on the scoresheet
again with a brace in the 3-2 enthralling round of 16 match against Cameroon to
bring his tally to three.
He scored his fourth on the spot
in the 2-1 loss to Algeria in the semi-final.
Ighalo netted his fifth goal of
the tournament in the third-place match against Tunisia to drift away in the
race for the golden boot, two clear of his closest challengers Adam Ounas and
Sadio Mane of Algeria and Senegal respectively.
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