On-form Nigeria forward Ahmed Musa and Vincent Enyeama will battle current African Player of the Year Yaya Toure and 22 others for the 2014 CAF African Player of the Year award.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Thursday in Cairo released the list of nominees for the 2014 African Player of the Year and the 2014 African Player of the Year (Based in Africa).
Twenty-five players were nominated for the Prestigious African Player of the Year, while 20 players made the list for the Player of the Year (Based in Africa) category.
Ejike Uzoenyi of Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa is the only Nigerian who made the 20-man list of Africa-based Player of the Year.
Ahmed Musa has been in superb form for the Super Eagles and CSKA Moscow in the outgoing year. Both he and Enyeama were the shinning lights as Nigeria reached the last 16 of the last World Cup in Brazil.
Other Players shorted listed for the African Player of the Year award include the Ghanaian duo of Asamoah Gyan of Al-Ain and Kwadwo Asamoah Juventus, Senegalese pair of Dame N’doye of Lokomotiv Moscow and Sadio Mané of Southampton; Emmanuel Adebayor of Togo and Tottenham and the Cameroon trio of Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting of Schalke 04, Stephane Mbia of Sevilla and Vincent Aboubakar of Porto.
Others are Yao Kouassi Gervais ‘Gervinho’ of Cote d’Ivoire and AS Roma and his fellow country man Wilfred Bony of Swansea.
Fakhreddine Ben Youssef and Ferdjani Sassi from Tunisia and CS Sfaxien, Algerian quartet of Islam Slimani of Sporting Lisbon, Raïs M’Bolhi of Philadelphia Union, Sofiane Feghouli of Valencia and Yacine Brahimi of Porto. Yannick Bolasie of DR Congo and Crystal Palace, Thulani Serero of South Africa and Ajax, Seydou Keita of Mali and AS Roma, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and Borussia Dortmund and Mohamed El Neny of Egypt and Basel completed the list.
In the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) category, the 20 players short-listed are South Africa’s Bernard Parker, Bongani Ndulula and late Senso Meyiwa of Kaizer Chiefs Amazulu and Orlando Pirates respectively. Others are Amr Gamal of Egypt and Al Ahly, the duo of Akram Djahnit and El Hedi Belamieri of Algeria and ES Setif. The list also included Tunisian and CS Sfaxien players: Fakhereddine Ben Youssef and Ferdjani Sassi.
Others are Congolese quartet of Firmin Mubel Ndombe of AS Vita, Jean Kasusula of TP Mazembe, Kader Bidimbou of AC Leopards and Lema Mabidi of AS Vita.
Also nominated are Geoffrey Massa of Uganda and Pretoria University, Mudathir Al Taieb of Sudan and Al Hilal, Roger Assalé of Cote d’Ivoire and Sewe Sport, Solomon Asante of Ghana and TP Mazembe, Souleymane Moussa of Cameroon and Coton Sport and Yunus Sentamu of Uganda and AS Vita.
The winners of these awards will be decided by votes from the head coaches and technical directors of the National Associations affiliated to CAF.
The GLO- CAF Awards Gala will take place on Thursday, 8 January 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria.
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