{"id":144239,"date":"2023-10-10T18:11:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/?p=144239"},"modified":"2023-10-10T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:11:53","slug":"victor-boniface-nominated-bundesliga-rookie-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/victor-boniface-nominated-bundesliga-rookie-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Boniface nominated for Bundesliga Rookie of the Month award &#8211; Here&#8217;s how you can vote&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles forward <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/victor-boniface-goals-this-season\/\">Victor Boniface<\/a> has been nominated for the Bundesliga Rookie of the Month award for September.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has been in sensational form for Bayer Leverkusen in his first season, notching 10 goals and three assists across all competitions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria&#39;s Victor Boniface has been nominated for the Bundesliga Rookie of the Month award for September.<\/p>\n<p>The Bayer Leverkusen striker claimed the award in August alongside the Bundesliga Player of the Month award\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec<\/p>\n<p>Edo boy is tearing up the Bundesliga! \ud83d\udd25 \ud83e\udd85<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BLRookie?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BLRookie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nigeria?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#nigeria<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tI3di0V6u2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tI3di0V6u2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Football Villa (@footievillaOG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footievillaOG\/status\/1711493379803029598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It's important to point out that Boniface not only won the Rookie of the Month award in August, he was also named Bundesliga Player of the Month, <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/victor-boniface-outshines-kane-bundesliga-fantasy\/\">beating players like Harry Kane<\/a> and Kevin Behrens.<\/p>\n<p>That said, let's see how the voting procedure works.<\/p>\n<h2>How does it work?<\/h2>\n<p>In order to qualify for Rookie of the Month, a player has to be under 23 years old at the start of the new Bundesliga campaign; he must also not have started a Bundesliga match in previous seasons.<\/p>\n<p>That said, fan votes aren't all there is. Clubs also get to vote, as well as experts. There's also a Rookie of the season award which is given to the best young player at the end of every Bundesliga campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>Victor Boniface's performance in September<\/h2>\n<p>In his first Bundesliga game of September, Victor Boniface put up a man-of-the-match performance in Bayer Leverkusen's 5-1 victory over Darmstadt, registering two goals and an assist.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/super-eagles-replace-awoniyi-with-sadiq-umar\/\">Super Eagles<\/a> forward proceeded to score two goals against Heidenheim a couple of weeks later, bringing his Bundesliga goal tally for the month to four.<\/p>\n<p>In four league matches last month, the former Union St Gilloise and Bodo\/Glimt player bagged four goals and an assist.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Victor Boniface is the Bundesliga Rookie of the month of August \ud83d\udcab <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mx3F1iGQEC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mx3F1iGQEC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Soar Super Eagles (@SSE_NGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SSE_NGA\/status\/1700479747443060746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Who else was nominated for the Bundesliga Rookie of the Month?<\/h2>\n<p>Next, let's take a look at the other players who made the cut, and how they fared in September.<\/p>\n<p>It may interest you to know that RB Leipzig's <strong>Xavi Simons<\/strong> was also nominated for Rookie of the Month in August; as he registered a goal and two assists in two league games.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch player put up some solid performances in September, notching two goals and two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hoffenheim's <strong>Maximilian Beier<\/strong> didn't make the cut in August, he impressed last month, scoring in all but one of his league matches.<\/p>\n<p>The former Hannover 96 striker scored three times in four Bundesliga games in September.<\/p>\n<h2>How can you vote for Victor Boniface?<\/h2>\n<p>If you're wondering how to vote for the Bundesliga Rookie of the Month, look no further. You can simply visit <strong>rookie-award.com<\/strong> and make your choice. Voting ends on Thursday, 12 October, at 23:00 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles forward Victor Boniface has been nominated for the Bundesliga Rookie of the Month award for September. The 22-year-old has been in sensational form for Bayer Leverkusen in his first season, notching 10 goals and three assists across all competitions. Nigeria&#39;s Victor Boniface has been nominated for the Bundesliga Rookie of the Month award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":144240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no"},"categories":[1,20999],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Barend Prins","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144239"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144261,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144239\/revisions\/144261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144239"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=144239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}