Lookman makes Serie A Team of The Week, set to receive Bergamo’s highest honour
Super Eagles and Atalanta FC winger Ademola Lookman has been listed in the final Serie A Team of The Week for the season, capping a successful campaign for the player.
The final Team of the Week for the Serie A campaign, which was compiled by whoscored.com and posted on their X handle, also included Juventus duo Alex Sandro and Federico Chiesa, while AC Milan’s winger Rafael Leao was also listed.
Lookman, who became the fourth player for Atalanta this season to reach double digits in the league with his goal against Torino on Sunday, finished the season with 16 goals and seven assists in 44 games across all competitions.
In a related development, Lookman, who joined Atalanta on a 4-year contract for a reported fee of €15 million on August 4, 2022, and his teammates will be awarded the City of Bergamo’s highest honour for winning the UEFA Europa League.
The player and his colleagues will receive the gold medal from Bergamo from the city’s mayor, Giorgio Gori, at a formal ceremony that will take place at Palazzo Frizzoni on Friday, May 31.
This comes days after Atalanta coach, Gian Piero Gasperini, declared that Nigerian striker Ademola Lookman has written a history that will last forever.
Gasperini was speaking against the backdrop of Lookman’s impressive hat-trick, which he scored against Bayer Leverkusen during the Europa League Cup final.
The coach said that it is not about the three goals Lookman scored in the Europa League final but how he took his chances in the one-sided game.
He noted that the coaching staff at Atalanta had seen the qualities in Lookman when he was at Leicester City, although he did not score too many goals at first.
