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Asisat
Oshoala has made the top three lists of contenders for the 2019 Confederation
of African Football (CAF) Women’s Player of the Year award.
For the
African Youth Player of the Year category, Victor Osimhen and Samuel Chukwueze
made the cut, having to slug it out with Achraf Hakimi of Morocco.
The
list which was published on CAF’s website was trimmed down by votes from a CAF
Technical & Development Committee and a panel of media experts with an
emphasis on the nominees’ performance during the year under review, 2019.
The
trio of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Riyad Mahrez who ply their trade in the
English Premier League, made the list for African Player of the Year category.
The
ceremony is billed for January 7, 2020, at the Albatros Citadel Sahl Hasheesh,
Hurghada, in Egypt.
See the
full list below:
African
Player of the Year
Mohamed
Salah (Egypt & Liverpool)
Riyad
Mahrez (Algeria & Manchester City)
Sadio
Mane (Senegal & Liverpool)
African
Women’s Player of the Year
Ajara
Nchout (Cameroon & Valerenga)
Asisat
Oshoala (Nigeria & Barcelona)
Thembi
Kgatlana (South Africa & Beijing Phoenix FC)
African
Interclubs Player of the Year
Anice
Badri (Tunisia & Esperance)
Tarek
Hamed (Egypt & Zamalek)
Youcef
Belaïli (Algeria & Esperance / Ahli Jeddah)
African
Youth Player of the Year
Achraf
Hakimi (Morocco & Borussia Dortmund)
Samuel
Chukwueze (Nigeria & Villarreal)
Victor
Osimhen (Nigeria & Lille)
African
Men’s Coach of the Year
Aliou
Cisse (Senegal – Senegal)
Djamel
Belmadi (Algeria – Algeria)
Moïne
Chaâbani (Tunisia – Esperance)
African
Women’s Coach of the Year
Alain
Djeumfa (Cameroon)
Desiree
Ellis (South Africa)
Thomas
Dennerby (Nigeria)
African
Men’s National Team of the Year
Algeria
Madagascar
Senegal
African
Women’s National Team of the Year
Cameroon
Nigeria
South
Africa (Channels TV)