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Moses Simon is in the running for the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Player of the Year award, reports Completesports.com.
CAF released the first list of nominees for the Men’s categories namely Player of the Year, Interclub Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, National Team of the Year and Club of the Year on Thursday.
The nominees for the Women’s categories will be announced in due course.
Former Golden Eaglets forward Akinkunmi Amoo was also nominated for the Young Player of the Year Award.
CAF stated that stakeholder panel made up of Technical Experts, CAF Legends and Journalists decided on the list for the various categories taking into the consideration the performance of the nominee from September 2021 till June 2022 at all levels.
The winners of each category will be decided by a voting panel made up of CAF Technical Committee, media professionals, Head Coaches & Captains of Member Associations and clubs involved at the group stage of the Interclub competitions.
The CAF Awards 2022 will be held ahead of the final of Africa’s women’s Cup of Nations in Morocco scheduled to take place between 2 July – 23 July.
Full List of Nominees (in alphabetic order by Member Association):
Player of the Year (Men)
Riyad Mahrez (Algeria & Manchester City)
Bertrand Traore (Burkina Faso & Aston Villa)
Blati Toure (Burkina Faso & Pyramids)
Edmund Tapsoba (Burkina Faso & Bayer Leverkusen)
Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Cameroon & Napoli)
Karl Toko Ekambi (Cameroon & Lyon)
Vincent Aboubacar (Cameroon & Al Nassr)
Youssouf M’Changama (Comoros & Guingamp)
Franck Kessie (Cote d’Ivoire & AC Milan)
Sebastien Haller (Cote d’Ivoire & Ajax)
Mohamed Abdelmonem (Egypt & Al Ahly)
Mohamed ElNeny (Egypt & Arsenal)
Mohamed Salah (Egypt & Liverpool)
Mohamed Shenawy (Egypt & Al Ahly)
Musa Barrow (Gambia & Bologna)
Naby Keita (Guinea & Liverpool)
Aliou Dieng (Mali & Al Ahly)
Hamari Traore (Mali & Rennes)
Yves Bissouma (Mali & Tottenham Hotspur)
Achraf Hakimi (Morocco & Paris Saint-Germain)
Sofiane Boufal (Morocco & Angers)
Yahya Jabrane (Morocco & Wydad Athletic Club)
Yassine Bounou (Morocco & Sevilla)
Moses Simon (Nigeria & Nantes)
Edouard Mendy (Senegal & Chelsea)
Kalidou Koulibaly (Senegal & Napoli)
Nampalys Mendy (Senegal & Leicester City)
Sadio Mane (Senegal & Bayern Munich)
Saliou Ciss (Senegal & Nancy)
Ali Maaloul (Tunisia & Al Ahly)
Interclub Player of the Year (Men)
Riad Benayad (ES Setif)
Tiago Azulao (Petro Atletico)
Karim Konate (ASEC Mimomas)
Ali Maaloul (Al Ahly)
Aliou Dieng (Al Ahly)
Mohamed Shenawy (Al Ahly)
Mohamed Sherif (Al Ahly)
Percy Tau (Al Ahly)
Morlaye Sylla (Horoya)
Achraf Dari (Wydad Athletic Club)
Yahya Jabrane (Wydad Athletic Club)
Zouhair El Moutaraji (Wydad Athletic Club)
Mouhcine Moutouali (Raja Club Athletic)
Issoufou Dayo (RS Berkane)
Youssou El Fahli (RS Berkane)
Victorien Adebayor (Niger & Union Sportive Gendarmerie Nationale)
Peter Shalulile (Mamelodi Sundowns)
Bandile Shandu (Orlando Pirates)
Thembinkosi Lorch (Orlando Pirates)
Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane (Esperance Sportive de Tunis)
Young Player of the Year (Men)
Dango Ouattara (Burkina Faso & Lorient)
Karim Konate (Cote d’Ivoire & ASEC/RB Salzburg)
Jesus Owono (Equatorial Guinea & Alaves)
James Gomez (The Gambia & AC Horsens)
Kamaldeen Sulemana (Ghana & Rennes)
Ilaix Moriba Kourouma (Guinea & Valencia)
El Bilal Toure (Mali & Reims)
Akinkunmi Amoo (Nigeria & FC Copenhagen)
Pape Matar Sarr (Senegal & Metz)
Hannibal Mejbri (Tunisia & Manchester United)
Coach of the Year (Men)
Kamou Malo (Burkina Faso)
Amir Abdou (Comoros)
Carlos Quieroz (Egypt)
Pitso Mosimane (Al Ahly)
Tom Saintfiet (The Gambia)
Florent Ibenge (RS Berkane)
Vahid Halilhodzic (Morocco)
Walid Regragui (Wydad Athletic Club)
Aliou Cisse (Senegal)
Mandla Ncikazi (Orlando Pirates)
National Team of the Year (Men)
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Comoros
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
The Gambia
Mali
Morocco
Senegal
Tunisia
Club of the Year (Men)
ES Setif (Algeria)
Petro Atletico (Angola)
TP Mazembe (DR Congo)
Al Ahly (Egypt)
Ahli Tripoli (Libya)
Al Ittihad (Libya)
Raja Club Athletic (Morocco)
RS Berkane (Morocco)
Wydad Athletic Club (Morocco)
Orlando Pirates (South Africa)
8 Comments
Amoo is the future of Nigeria’s midfield he will win this CAF award and go on to do great things after moving to a bigger league . Heaven bless Amoo and all deserving Super Eagles players.
Surprisingly, Victor Oshimen was left out, Serie A Young Player of the Year! What criteria did CAF use to pick Aston Traore ahead of ahead VO9? Someone should explain to me?
Even Okoye was excluded despite singlehandedly keeping Rotterdam up last season. CAF are criminals.
@ Unique the last afcon was the criteria in picking these players and you know osimhen was not part of it ,that is the reason for his exclusion.
Ignatius Are you playing?? Okoye?? How many spectacular save did okoye made during the last afcon
Okoye was among the highest in Netherland, Europe. Let that stick to your brain.
Imagine V09 missing in the list?
Imagine no Nigerian club in the list of clubs
Imagine super eagles is not in the list of countries
Thank you Mr. Dare, pinnick, Odegbami and Equavon for Killing our SE eagle and football.
Thank all the sentimental fans who wanted Rohr to be out, you can see for yourself the result.
1. Disgrace out of nations cup by a sick Tunisian team without a coach
2. Lose world cup ticket to the poorest Ghanian team ever
3. No Super Eagles in list of teams selected by CAF
4. Only Simon could make the list ahead of Osimhen
Who knows what will happen next?
Add to all that the endless abuse we receive on this platform on a daily basis from self made urine. Thankfully, Field Marshal Bob helped us to place a curse on him after exposing his social media account. Have you noticed that Yaw has disappeared from here since Field Marshal Bob cursed him?
Heaven bless Field Marshal
Add to all that the endless abuse we receive on this platform on a daily basis from self made urine. Thankfully, Field Marshal Bob helped us to place a curse on him after exposing his social media account. Have you noticed that Yaw has disappeared from here since Field Marshal Bob cursed him?
Heaven bless Field Marshal