The Confederation of African Football (CAF) have released its final shortlist of nominees for the CAF 2018 awards on Monday (Dec 18) and as expected, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are the last three men that might walk away with the 2018 player of the year award.
Egypt’s Salah is the most promising player in the list. He has already won the 2017 BBC African Footballer of the Year award, while Gabon’s Aubameyang and Senegal’s Sadio Mane have been quite impressive for their respective European clubs.
See the full list below:
African Player of the Year: Mohamed Salah (Egypt and Liverpool), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon and B. Dortmund), Sadio Mane (Senegal and Liverpool)
Women’s Player of the Year: Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and Dalian Quanjian), Chrestina Kgatlana (South Africa and UWC Ladies), Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene(Cameroon and CSKA Moscow)
Women’s National Team of the Year: Ghana U-20, Nigeria U-20, South Africa
Coach of the Year: Gernot Rohr (Nigeria), Hector Cuper (Egypt), L’Hussein Amoutta (Wydad Athletic Club)
National Team of the Year: Cameroon, Egypt, Nigeria
Club of the Year: Al Ahly, TP Mazembe, Wydad Athletic Club
Youth Player of the Year: Krepin Diatta (Senegal and Sarpsborg), Patson Daka (Zambia and Liefering), Salam Giddou (Mali and Guidars)
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