Manchester City’s Yaya Toure has once again been named Confederation of African Football African Footballer of the Year—this is his fourth winning in four years in a row.
Yaya Toure’s nomination came after helping Ivory Coast qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and also after playing a central role in winning the Premier League and League Cup at his club.
In winning the CAF footballer of the year, Toure, 31 beat off the challenge of Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Cameroonian footballer-Samuel Eto’o has also won the African Footballer of the Year award four times but his achievement was not in a row.
Full list of winners…
African Player of the Year: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast 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 (Entente Setif)
National Team of the Year: Algeria
Women’s National Team of the Year: Nigeria
Club of the Year: Entente Setif (Algeria)
Referee of the Year: Papa Bakary Gassama (Gambia)
Football Leader of the Year: Moise Katumbi – President of TP Mazembe (DR Congo)
African Legend award: Oryx Club (Cameroon) – winners of the maiden edition of CAF Champions League 1964 and Stade Malien (Mali) – runner up of the maiden edition of CAF Champion’s League 1964
Platinum Award: Dr Kwame Nkrumah (First President of Ghana) and His Excellency Goodluck Jonthan (President of Nigeria)
CAF team of the 2014: Goalkeeper: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria) Defenders: Jean Kasulula (DR Congo), Mehdi Benatia (Morocco), Stephane Mbia (Cameroon), Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana) Midfielders: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast), 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), Gervinho (Ivory Coast), Abdelrahman Fetori (Libya), Akram Djahnit (Algeria), Roger Assalé (Ivory Coast)