Nominees for 2013 African Player of the Year revealed
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released the nominees for the 2013 African Player of the Year and the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa). Twenty-five (25) players made the cut for the flagship African Player of the Year category, and twenty-one (21) for the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa).The winners will be announced at the Glo-CAF Awards Gala scheduled for Thursday, January 9, 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria. Ivorian Yaya Toure is the reigning African Player of the Year and Mohamed Aboutrika of Egypt for the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa).The nominees are (in alphabetical order); African Player of the Year Name CountryClub Ahmed MusaNigeria CSKA Moscow Asamoah GyanGhanaAl Ain Dame N’DoyeSenegalLocomotiv Moscow Didier DrogbaCote d’Ivoire Galatasaray Emmanuel Emenike NigeriaFenerbahce Islam SlimaniAlgeriaSporting Lisbon John Mikel ObiNigeriaChelsea Jonathan PitroipaBurkina FasoStade Rennais Kévin ConstantGuineaAC Milan Kwadwo AsamoahGhanaJuventus Luís Carlos Almada Soares – (Platini)Cape VerdeAC Omonia Mehdi Benattia Morocco AS Roma Mohamed Aboutrika Egypt Al Ahly Mohamed Salah EgyptBasel FC Nicolas NkoulouCameroonMarseille Pierre-Emerick AubameyangGabonBorussia Dortmund, Ryan Isaac Mendes da GraçaCape VerdeLille Saladin SaidEthiopiaWadi Degla FC Seydou KeitaMaliDalian Aerbin F.C Sofiane FeghouliAlgeriaValencia Sunday MbaNigeriaWarri Wolves Victor Wanyama KenyaSouthampton FC Vincent EnyeamaNigeriaLille Yao Kouassi Gervais ‘Gervinho’Cote d’IvoireAS Roma Yaya ToureCote d’Ivoire Manchester City African Player of the Year – Based in Africa NameCountryClub Adane GirmaEthiopiaSt George Ahmed FathiEgyptAl Ahly Alexis Yougouda KadaCameroonCoton Sport Ali MachaniTunisiaCAB Bapidi Fils Jean JulesCameroonCoton Sport Daine Marcelle-KlateSouth AfricaOrlando Pirates Fakhreddine Ben YoussefTunisiaCSS Getaneh KebedeEthiopiaBidvest Wits Idrissa KouyateCote d’IvoireCS Sfaxien Iheb MsakniTunisiaEsperance Luyanda Lennox BacelaSouth AfricaOrlando Pirates Mbwana SamattaTanzaniaTP Mazembe Moez Ben CherifiaTunisiaEST Mohamed AboutrikaEgyptAhly Rainford KalabaZambiaTP Mazembe Senzo MeyiwaSouth AfricaOrlando Pirates Soumbeila DiakiteMaliStade Malien Sunday MbaNigeriaWarri Wolves Tresor MputuDR CongoTP Mazembe Waleed SolimanEgyptAl Ahly Yannick N’djengCameroonEST The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released the nominees for the 2013 African Player of the Year and the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa). Twenty-five (25) players made the cut for the flagship African Player of the Year category, and twenty-one (21) for the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa).The winners will be announced at the Glo-CAF Awards Gala scheduled for Thursday, January 9, 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria. Ivorian Yaya Toure is the reigning African Player of the Year and Mohamed Aboutrika of Egypt for the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa).The nominees are (in alphabetical order); African Player of the Year NameCountryClub Ahmed MusaNigeriaCSKA Moscow Asamoah GyanGhanaAl Ain Dame N’DoyeSenegalLocomotiv Moscow Didier DrogbaCote d’Ivoire Galatasaray Emmanuel EmenikeNigeriaFenerbahce Islam SlimaniAlgeriaSporting Lisbon John Mikel ObiNigeriaChelsea Jonathan PitroipaBurkina FasoStade Rennais Kévin ConstantGuineaAC Milan Kwadwo AsamoahGhanaJuventus Luís Carlos Almada Soares – (Platini)Cape VerdeAC Omonia Mehdi Benattia Morocco AS Roma Mohamed Aboutrika Egypt Al Ahly Mohamed Salah EgyptBasel FC Nicolas NkoulouCameroonMarseille Pierre-Emerick AubameyangGabonBorussia Dortmund, Ryan Isaac Mendes da GraçaCape VerdeLille Saladin SaidEthiopiaWadi Degla FC Seydou KeitaMaliDalian Aerbin F.C Sofiane FeghouliAlgeriaValencia Sunday MbaNigeriaWarri Wolves Victor Wanyama KenyaSouthampton FC Vincent EnyeamaNigeriaLille Yao Kouassi Gervais ‘Gervinho’Cote d’IvoireAS Roma Yaya ToureCote d’Ivoire Manchester City African Player of the Year – Based in Africa NameCountryClub Adane GirmaEthiopiaSt George Ahmed FathiEgyptAl Ahly Alexis Yougouda KadaCameroonCoton Sport Ali MachaniTunisiaCAB Bapidi Fils Jean JulesCameroonCoton Sport Daine Marcelle-KlateSouth AfricaOrlando Pirates Fakhreddine Ben YoussefTunisiaCSS Getaneh KebedeEthiopiaBidvest Wits Idrissa KouyateCote d’IvoireCS Sfaxien Iheb MsakniTunisiaEsperance Luyanda Lennox BacelaSouth AfricaOrlando Pirates Mbwana SamattaTanzaniaTP Mazembe Moez Ben CherifiaTunisiaEST Mohamed AboutrikaEgyptAhly Rainford KalabaZambiaTP Mazembe Senzo MeyiwaSouth AfricaOrlando Pirates Soumbeila DiakiteMaliStade Malien Sunday MbaNigeriaWarri Wolves Tresor MputuDR CongoTP Mazembe Waleed SolimanEgyptAl Ahly Yannick N’djengCameroonEST