.Mahrez,
Mane, Aubameyang make top five
Nigerian
Internationals, Chelsea’s John Mikel Obi, Ahmed Musa of Leicester City and Kelechi
Iheanacho of Manchester City have missed out of the top five shortlisted for the
2016 African Player of the Year in the Glo-CAF Awards. The trio
made the top thirty but narrowly missed out in the final list released on
Tuesday by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo.
The top 5
nominees were shortlisted from a thirty man -list earlier nominated for the
African Player of the Year and 25 players who made the list for the Player of
the Year (Based in Africa) category.
Top on the
list is the reigning African Footballer of the Year and Borussia Dortmund
winger, Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. He is joined by Senegal and
Liverpool midfielder, Sadio Mane, and Mohamed Salah of As Roma of Italy and
Egypt. The remaining two players shortlisted are Algeria’s duo of Riyad Mahrez
and Islam Slimani who both play for Leicester City of England.
In the
African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) category, the five shortlisted
players include the quartet of Dennis Onyango, Hlompho Kekana, Keegan Dolly and
Khama Billiat from the 2016 African Champions League winning side, Mamelodi
Sundowns of South Africa, while T.P Mazembe player, Rainford Kabala from Zambia
completed the list.
Other
categories of Awards to be released by CAF in the coming weeks include Most
promising Talent Award, National team of the year, Football Manager of the
Year, Africa’s Finest Eleven, Goal of the Year and Save of the Year. The
rest are Referee of the Year, CAF fair
play Award and African Legend Award.
They will be
unveiled at the Glo- CAF Awards Gala nite which will take place on Thursday,
January 5, 2017 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria.
Gabonese
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was crowned African Player of the Year whilst Mbwana
Aly Samatta of Tanzania was named African Player of the Year (Based in Africa)
last year.
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