Enyeama, Musa shortlisted for CAF award

CAPE TOWN – Vincent Enyeama and Ahmed Musa have been shortlisted
for the 2014 CAF African footballer of the year Award.

Reigning African Footballer of the Year Yaya Toure heads a list of five
players from the English Premier League among 25 nominated on
Friday by CAF.

The Ivory Coast midfielder is on course to be named Africa's top
player for a record fourth consecutive year and looks to be the
standout performer on the shortlist again after helping Manchester
City win the Premier League title last season.

Also on the list are Toure's international team mate and striker
Wilfried Bony of Swansea City, Crystal Palace's Democratic Republic
of Congo midfielder Yannick Bolasie and Senegalese midfielder Sadio
Mane who plays for Southampton.

Tottenham Hotspur's Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who won the
prize in 2008, is also in contention.

Toure and Adebayor are the only previous winners on the list, but
other familiar names are Ghana forward Asamoah Gyan, Ivory Coast
striker Gervinho, Gabon forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and
Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Chelsea's Nigeria midfielder Jon Obi Mikel and veteran Ivorian forward
Didier Drogba, who finished second and third respectively last year,
did not make the shortlist.

Algeria, who lost in this year's World Cup second round in extra time
to eventual champions Germany, have the most players on the list --
goalkeeper Raïs M'Bolhi, midfielder Yacine Brahimi, and strikers Islam
Slimani and Sofiane Feghouli.

The voting will be conducted by the national team coaches and
technical directors of CAF member associations and the winner will be
announced in Lagos, Nigeria on Jan. 8.

Shortlist
Ahmed Musa (Nigeria), Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Dame N'doye
(Senegal), Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
(Cameroon), Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Tunisia), Ferdjani Sassi
(Tunisia), Gervinho (Ivory Coast), Islam Slimani (Algeria), Kwadwo
Asamoah (Ghana), Mehdi Benatia (Morocco), Mohamed El Neny (Egypt),
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon), Raïs M'Bolhi (Algeria), Sadio
Mane (Senegal), Seydou Kieta (Mali), Sofiane Feghouli (Algeria),
Stephane Mbia (Cameroon), Thulani Serero (South Africa), Vincent
Aboubakar (Cameroon), Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria), Wilfried Bony
(Ivory Coast), Yacine Brahimi (Algeria), Yannick Bolasie (DR Congo),
Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast).

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