Tanzania’s Mbwana Favourite to Win Belgium Best African Player Award

Five African players are slugging it out for the top best African footballer prize in Belgium with Tanzania’s Mbwana Ally Samatta tagged the favorite.

The awards dubbed the Black Awards is not only limited to African players drawn from the continent but as well stars born abroad with African ancestry plying their trade in Belgium.

Ally, who has courted overtures from the EPL, Spain and French Ligue outfits has been stupendous for Genk and tops the top tier’s golden boot race, scoring twenty times in thirty cameos.

Genk were reluctant to let him go January this year, luring him to sign an extended contract in the hope of scooping astronomical profits in any future sale of the player, a thing of which looks likely at the next window.

The gala slated for May 6^th sees Paris-born Yohan Boli who now plays for Ivory Coast also nominated. The 25-year-old has notched in twelve times for seventh-placed St-Tuident.

29-year-old Moroccan Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez of Standard Leige is also in the running.

The former Belgian youth international and Standard Liege winger has been on prepossessing form, starting twenty-four of Liege’s twenty-eight outings so far, netting four times.

Lagos-born Arnaut Danjuma, a youth international for the Netherlands, also made the cut along with Anderlecht’s DR Congo starlet Landry Dimata.