Mahanaim Football Academy product, Yahaya Lawali, is flying high with the footballing principles learnt from the academy at the CAF U17 AFCON with two back-to-back Man of the match awards he won in the first two matches played in Algeria.
Yahaya Lawali won the MOTM award in Nigeria's 1-nil win against Zambia in the first match and also won the award again in the Golden Eaglets 1-nil loss to Morocco in the second match.
Yahaya completed 41 passes with great runs, pullouts and interceptions as a right back against Zambia and he completed 31 passes after starting as right back before moving to the midfield as the Eaglets lost to Morocco.
The CAF technical study group thus picked him as the best player in these two matches.
Yahaya Danjuma Lawali is the vice-captain of the Golden Eaglets as the team continues to push to earn a World Cup spot in the cadet championship.
The entire team of Mahanaim have expresses delight with the exploit of one of them as they urge him not to relent in making them proud with excellent performance at the championship.
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