… Omagbemi,
National U-23 also nominated for Coach and National team of the Year
Confederation
of African Football (CAF), on Sunday in Cairo released top 5 nominees in other
categories for the 2016 Glo-CAF Awards.
The release
of the five nominees in other categories competing for different prizes is a
follow up to the recently released list of the top five contenders to the 2016 African footballer of the year and
African footballer of the year Awards.
The seven
new categories for which nominees were announced included Coach of the Year,
National team of the Year, Women National team of the Year, Youth Player of the
Year, Most promising Player of the Year, Club of the Year and Women Player of
the Year.
For the
Women Player of the Year, Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria & Arsenal Ladies,
Janine Van Wyk of South Africa & JVW, Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene of Cameroon
& Rossiyanka, Raissa Feudjlo Tchanyo of Cameroon & Aland United and
Elizabeth Addo of Ghana & Kvarnsvedensik were shortlisted.
The Managers
listed for Coach of the Year include Florent Ibenge (DR Congo), Milutin ‘Micho’
Sredojevic (Uganda), Pitso Mosimane (Mamelodi Sundowns), Nacer Sandjak (Mo Bejaia)
and Florence Omagbemi (Nigeria women’s national team) while DR Congo, Guinea
Bissau,Nigeria U-23, Senegal and Uganda were shortlisted for National team of
the Year.
The
countries shortlisted for Women National team of the Year are Cameroon, Ghana,
Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe while Sandra Owusu-Ansah of Ghana &
Supreme Ladies, Franck Kessie of Cote d’Ivoire & Atalanta, Alex Iwobi of
Nigeria & Arsenal, Eric Ayiah of
Ghana U-17 and Sidiki Maiga of Mali U-20
made the top 5 list of Youth Player of the Year award.
Also Kelechi
Iheanacho of Nigeria & Manchester City, Naby Keita of Guinea & RB
Leipzig, Elia Meschak of DR Congo & TP Mazembe, Ramadan Sobhi of Egypt
& Stoke City and Oghenekaro Etebo of Nigeria & CD Feirense were
nominated forMost Promising player of the Year award.
The Club of
the Year has Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa, MO Bejaia of Algeria, TP
Mazembe of DR Congo, Zamalek of Egypt and Zesco United of Zambia as nominees.
CAF recently
released the list of top five contenders for the 2016 African Player of the
Year award and they include Borussia Dortmund winger, Gabonese Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang, Enegal and Liverpool midfielder, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah of As
Roma of Italy and Egypt and 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
The list of
Top three nominees will be released by CAF in the coming weeks.
The winners
will be decided by votes from the Head Coaches and Technical Directors of the
National Associations affiliated to CAF.
The Glo- CAF
Awards Gala night will take place on Thursday, 5 January 2017 in Abuja,
Nigeria.
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