CAF AWARDS 2017: SALAH LEADS THE 3-MAN SHORTLIST FOR APOTY CATEGORY

CAF has today released the top three (3) shortlist for the category of the Aiteo CAF awards. The event which will take place in the capital city of Accra, Ghana at the State Banquet Hall on Thursday, 4th January, 2018.

The long list of nominees was cut short to three in Accra, Ghana on Monday, 18th December, 2018 with 

the CAF President Ahmad, CAF First Vice President Kwesi Nyantakyi, CAF Executive Committee member, Amaju Pinnick, with Ghana’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Isaac Asiamah, the Guest-of-Honour, all in attendance.

Also present were sponsors, Aiteo, represented by Senior Vice President, Commercial and Gas, Victor Okoronkwo, who expressed his outfit’s pride in partnership of the event that celebrates the various stakeholders of African football.
 

However, Ex-Ghana International Sammy Kuffour unveiled the shortlists for the topmost award: African Player of the Year.

Below are the top three (Nominees are listed in alphabetical order);

African Player of the Year

·       Mohamed Salah (Egypt & Liverpool)

·       Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon & Dortmund)

·       Sadio Mane (Senegal & Liverpool)

 

 Women’s Player of the Year

·       Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria & Dalian Quanjian)

·       Chrestina Kgatlana (South Africa & UWC Ladies)

·       Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene(Cameroon & CSKA Moscow)

Youth Player of the Year

·       Krepin Diatta (Senegal & Sarpsborg)

·       Patson Daka (Zambia & Liefering)

·       Salam Giddou (Mali & Guidars)

Coach of the Year

·       Gernot Rohr (Nigeria)

·       Hector Cuper (Egypt)

·       L'Hussein Amoutta (Wydad Athletic Club)

Club of the Year

·       Al Ahly

·       TP Mazembe

·       Wydad Athletic Club

National Team of the Year

·       Cameroon

·       Egypt

·       Nigeria

Women’s National Team of the Year

·       Ghana U-20

·       Nigeria U-20

·       South Africa

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