By Daily Sports on November 28, 2017
Chelsea star Victor Moses leads 10 other top African stars on the latest short list of nominees for the 2017 CAF Player of the Year Award.
CAF announced the other nominees as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon/Borussia Dortmund), Mohamed Salah (Egypt/Liverpool), Naby Keita (Guinea/RB Liepzig),Sadio Mane (Senegal/Liverpool) and Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon/FC Porto).
Others are Balde Keita (Senegal/Monaco), Karim Al Ahmadi (Morocco/Feyenoord), Yacine Brahimi (Algeria/Fc Porto), Denis Onyango (Uganda/Mamelodi Sundowns) and Bertrand Traore (Burkina Faso/Lyon).
In the women’s player of the year category, Super Falcons star Asisat Oshoala tops the award, while Gernot Rohr of Nigeria has been nominated for the national team coach award for his role in Nigeria’s qualification to next year’s World Cup in Russia.
Rohr is up against the likes of Hector Cuper, who also qualified Egypt to Russia 2018 after they were beaten in the AFCON 2017 final by Cameroon, and Hugo Broos, who led the Indomitable Lions to AFCON glory in Gabon.
The awards gala is on January 4 in Accra, Ghana.
•Photo shows Victor Moses.
Source Daily Sports
Posted November 28, 2017
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