Yaya Toure is African Player of the Year 2014

The Ivoirian has been named the best player from the
continent for a fourth straight time after beating local
favourite Enyeama and Aubameyang at a ceremony in
Lagos
Jan 8, 2015 22:42:00
By Shina Oludare at the Eko
Convention Centre
Manchester City's Yaya
Toure has been named the
African Player of the Year 2014
by the Confederation of African Football at an awards
ceremony held in Lagos on Thursday evening.
The Ivoirian won the title for a fourth straight time beating
off competition from local favourite Vincent Enyeama and
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to the title.
In the ceremony, Nigeria produced the African Women
Player award, Africa Youth Player of the Year as well as the
National Team of the Year.
However, it was the Ivoirian Toure who was called up to
the podium again winning the award for a record fourth
time after previous sucesses in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Toure told media that he felt 'lucky' to win it considering
the size of the competition.
In the other awards given on the evening, Firmin Ndombe
Mubele won the award for best African player based on the
continent.
Two Nigerians, Vincent Enyeama and Ahmed Musa also
made it into CAF Team of the Year.
The Full Awards
African Player of the Year
Yaya Toure (Cote d'Ivoire and Manchester City)
African Player of the Year – Based in Africa
Firmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo and AS Vita)
Women's Player of the Year
Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and River Angels)
Youth Player of the Year
Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and River Angels)
Most Promising Talent
Yacine Brahimi (Algeria and Porto)
Coach of the Year
Kheireddine Madoui (ES Setif)
National Team of the Year
Algeria
Women's National Team of the Year
Nigeria
Club of the Year
ES Setif (Algeria)
Referee of the Year
Papa Bakary Gassama (Gambia)
Football Leader of the Year
Moise Katumbi Chapwe - President of TP Mazembe (DR
Congo)
African Legend award
Oryx Club (Cameroon) – winners of the maiden edition of
CAF Champions League 1964
Stade Malien (Mali) - runner up of the maiden edition of
CAF Champion's League 1964
Platinum Award
Dr Kwame Nkrumah (First President of Ghana)
His Excellency Goodluck Jonthan (President of Nigeria)
CAF Finest XI
Goalkeeper: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria)
Defenders: Jean Kasulula (DR Congo), Mehdi Benatia
(Morocco), Stephane Mbia (Cameroon), Kwadwo Asamoah
(Ghana)
Midfielders: Yaya Toure (Cote d'Ivoire), Yacine Brahimi
(Algeria), Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Tunisia), Ahmed Musa
(Nigeria)
Forwards: Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang (Gabon)
Substitutes
Raïs M'Bolhi (Algeria), Firmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo),
Ferdjani Sassi (Tunisia), Yao Kouasi Gervais 'Gervinho
(Cote d'Ivoire), Abdelrahman Fetori (Libya), Akram Djahnit
(Algeria), Roger Assalé (Cote d'Ivoire)
Courtesy: goal.com
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