{"id":179968,"date":"2016-01-07T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=179968"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:12:04","slug":"sunday-oliseh-wants-ayew-to-be-crowned-caf-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=179968","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Oliseh wants Ayew to be crowned CAF Player of the Year\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s head coach Sunday Oliseh has stated that Ghanaian attacker Andre Ayew should win the CAF Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew is in contention with Cote d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s Yaya Toure and Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for the continent\u2019s highest individual footballing honour which will be handed out in Abuja later tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Oliseh told Nigeria\u2019s The Punch in an interview that Ayew deserved to win the laurel because that would bring a new twist to what has become the \u2018tradition\u2019 of Francophone winners. Oliseh said, \u201cI think Ayew deserves it to stop the monotony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, one of Oliseh\u2019s team-mates from his time with the Super Eagles, Victor Ikpeba, believes Yaya Toure deserves to win the award again.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Punch in an interview that Toure\u2019s role in Cote d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s capture of the 2015 AFCON was a huge boost for the Manchester City\u2019s bid to win the award again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s head coach Sunday Oliseh has stated that Ghanaian attacker Andre Ayew should win the CAF Player of the Year. Ayew is in contention with Cote d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s Yaya Toure and Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for the continent\u2019s highest individual footballing honour which will be handed out in Abuja later tonight. Oliseh told Nigeria\u2019s The Punch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}