Tuesday, 3 November 2015

CAF: Nigeria Players not Shortlisted for African Players of the Year


Confederation of Africa  Football ( CAF), has release a 10-man shortlist for African player of the year award, with no Nigerian player making the list.  

CAF also shortlisted 10 players for 2015 African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) in the Glo-CAF Awards.

The players were shortlisted from 37 players who earlier were nominated for the African Player of the Year, and 20 players who made the list for the Player of the Year (Based in Africa) category.
Nigeria’s Vincent Enyeama and Ahmed Musa were earlier shortlisted, but they were nowhere to be found in the latest list released on Monday.

Herewith the top 10 nominees for the two categories; African Player of the Year 2015 and African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) 2015.

The winner will be decided by votes of the Coaches or Technical Directors of the National Associations affiliated to CAF.

The awards gala will be held on Thursday, 7 January 2016 in Abuja, Nigeria.


African Player of the
André Ayew (Ghana & Swansea)
Aymen Abdennour (Tunisia & Valencia)
Mudather Eltaib Ibrahim ‘Karika’ (Sudan & El Hilal)
Mohamed Salah (Egypt & Roma)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon & Borussia Dortmund)
Sadio Mané (Senegal & Southampton)
Serge Aurier (Cote d’Ivoire & Paris Saint Germain)
Sofiane Feghouli (Algeria & Valencia)
Yacine Brahimi ( Algeria & Porto)
Yaya Touré (Cote d’Ivoire & Manchester City)

African Player of the - Year Based in Africa

Abdeladim Khadrouf (Morocco & Moghreb Tetouan)
Baghdad Bounedjah ( Algeria & Etoile du Sahel)
Felipe Ovono (Equatorial Guinea & Orlando Pirates)
Kermit Erasmus (South Africa & Orlando Pirates)
Mbwana Aly Samatta (Tanzania & TP Mazembe)
Mohamed Meftah ( Algeria & USM Alger)
Mudather Eltaib Ibrahim ‘Karika’ (Sudan & El Hilal)
Robert Kidiaba Muteba ( DR Congo & TP Mazembe)
Roger Assalé (Cote d’Ivoire & TP Mazembe)
Zineddine Ferhat (Algeria & USM Alger)


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