The Confederation of African Football
on Sunday announced the list of the top-ten nominees for the African
Player of the Year Award with Nigeria’s Mikel Obi making the list.
Nigerian players: Mikel, John Utaka and Victor Moses were shortlisted in
the initial list of 34 players released last month by CAF before the
nummber was pruned down.
The African body also on Sunday released the names of the five players remaining in the run for Africa-based Player of the Year.
The statement from Cairo explained that the CAF’s Technical, Football
and Media Committees decided on the current shortlists which will now
be passed on to head coaches of each of the African countries and
technical directors from CAF member associations whose votes will decide
the eventual winners.
The confederation will announce the top three in the last week of
November while the winners will be unveiled at a ceremony to be held
December 20 in the Ghanaian capital Accra.
Ivorian Yaya Toure was voted the 2011 African Player of the Year
while Tunisian Oussam Darragi was crowned last year’s African Player of
the Year-Based in Africa.
Mikel has continued to have a fine run in London where he plies his
trade with Chelsea but he hasn’t been able to replicate his club
success at national level.
Top Ten Players List
Alexander Song (Camerron)
Andre Ayew (Ghana)
Christopher Katongo (Zambia)
Demba Ba (Senegal)
Didier Drogba (Cote d’Ivoire)
Gervais Lombe Yao Kouassi (Cote d’Ivoire)
John Obi Mikel (Nigeria)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)
Yaya Toure (Cote d’Ivoire)
Younes Belhanda (Morocco)
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