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The\u00a0 year 2018 has just gone by and football actions will resume from day one of 2019 but who were the African stars who did us proud in the just ended year in European leagues and for their national teams.All Nigeria Soccer’s Izuchukwu Okosi presents the African Team of the Year.<\/p>\n

There were few African goalkeepers who caught the attention in 2018 like Mounir El Kajoui of Numancia and Morocco but Onana edges it here due to his great form for Ajax who are second in the Dutch Eredevisie behind PSV.<\/p>\n

Kajoui and his national team were eliminated in the group stages of the World Cup and his Spanish club aren’t just in the same class yet as Ajax.<\/p>\n

In the calendar year 2018, Onana was in goal in 39 games for club and country and conceded 23 times in that period for Cameroon and Ajax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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