The yearly ceremony for the award of Best African Footballer of the Year is upon us again.
How quickly time flies. Was it not ‘yesterday’ that Yaya Toure angered a lot of people by
raising unwanted dust by discrediting the process of last year’s selection (the same process that made him a winner an unprecedented four consecutive times) when Pierre Aubameyang of Borussia Dortmund FC and Gabon was selected ahead of him?
For this year’s event that will come up in January 2017 in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released a preliminary list of 30 African players for the award.
That number will be pruned down through nomination and voting by all the national team coaches of the member federations in Africa.
The eventual winner will only be revealed during the award ceremony supervised by CAF officials and an international verification agency.
The event has become a yearly feast of the best of African entertainment on a platform that provides opportunity for camaraderie and networking for all African football stakeholders.
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