•Aubameyang, Salah, Mahrez, Mane, Slimani in
The Confederation of
African Football (CAF) yesterday in Cairo named the Top 5 nominees for the
2016 African Player of the Year and the 2016 African Player of the Year (Based
in Africa) for the Glo-CAF Awards.
Vanguard
report continues:
The
players were shortlisted from thirty players who earlier were nominated for the
African Player of the Year, and 25 players who made the list for the Player of
the Year (Based in Africa) category.
Top
on the list is the reigning African Footballer of the Year and Borussia
Dortmund winger, Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. He is joined by Senegal
and Liverpool midfielder, Sadio Mane, and Mohamed Salah of As Roma of Italy and
Egypt. The remaining two players shortlisted are Algeria’s duo of Riyad
Mahrez and Islam Slimani who both play for Leicester City of England.
In
the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) category, the five shortlisted
players include the quartet of Dennis Onyango, Hlompho Kekana, Keegan Dolly and
Khama Billiat from the 2016 African Champions League winning side, Mamelodi
Sundowns of South Africa, while TP Mazembe player, Rainford Kabala from Zambia
completed the list.
Top
Nigerian players, Kelechi Iheanacho of Manchester City, Chelsea’s John Mikel
Obi and Ahmed Musa of Leicester City made the top Thirty but narrowly missed
out of the Top 5 list.
Other
categories of Awards to be released by CAF in the coming weeks include
Most promising Talent Award, National team of the year, Football Manager of the
Year, Africa’s Finest Eleven, Goal of the Year and Save of the Year. Others are
Referee of the Year, CAF fair play Award and African Legend Award.
The
winners will be decided by votes from the Head Coaches and Technical Directors
of the National Associations affiliated to CAF.
They
will be unveiled at the Glo- CAF Awards Gala nite which will take place
on Thursday, January 5, 2017 at the International Conference Centre,
Abuja, Nigeria.
Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was crowned African Player of the Year whilst Mbwana Aly Samatta of Tanzania was named African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) last year.
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