{"id":180119,"date":"2016-01-08T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=180119"},"modified":"2016-01-08T07:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T07:06:02","slug":"aubameyang-beats-dede-toure-to-win-caf-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=180119","title":{"rendered":"Aubameyang beats Dede, Toure to win CAF player of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been named as 2015 CAF Player of the Year ahead of Yaya Toure and Ghana\u2019s Andre Ayew. The award was handed out at the CAF Awards Gala held in Lagos.<\/p>\n

He is the first Gabonese to win the award since its inception. He got 143 votes while Toure and Ayew had 136 and 112 respectively.<\/p>\n

The forward has been a key part of Borussia Dortmund\u2019s season scoring 24 goals in all since August 2015.<\/p>\n

He set a Bundesliga record by scoring in the first six matches of a season; a feat which had never been done in the 53-year history of the German top flight.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
New African Football King: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite missing out on the main award, both Andre Ayew and Yay Toure were named in CAF\u2019s Best Eleven for 2015. It also featured Robert Kidiaba of TP Mazembe and Sadio Mane of Senegal and Southampton.<\/p>\n

\"Africa\u2019s<\/a>
Africa\u2019s Best Team for 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gaelle Enganamouit of Cameroon won the Women\u2019s Player of the Year award ahead of Gabrielle Ongu\u00e9n\u00e9, Ngozi Ebere, N\u2019rehy Tia Ines, and Ghana\u2019s Portia Boakye.<\/p>\n

The Best Player in Africa award went to Tanzanian forward Mbwana Samatta of TP Mazembe while the Club of The Year went to TP Mazembe for winning the CAF Champions League for a fifth time.<\/p>\n

Herve Renard was given the Best Coach of the Year award for guiding Cote d\u2019Ivoire to win their first AFCON title since 1992.<\/p>\n

\"Gaffer<\/a>
Gaffer supreme: Herve Renard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ghana\u2019s C.K. Gyamfi was given the African Legend Award for his achievements with the Black Stars as he won the African Nations Cup in 1963, 1965 and 1982.<\/p>\n

He passed on in 2015 but his feats were recognized posthumously and his son Edwin was present to take the award for the family.<\/p>\n

\"Edwin<\/a>
Edwin Kumi Gyamfi taking the African Legend Award for his late father C.K. Gyamfi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Full list of award winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/strong>– CAF Player of The Year<\/p>\n

Cameroon<\/strong>– Women\u2019s national team of the year<\/p>\n

Mbwana Samatta<\/strong> of TP Mazembe- Best Player in Africa award<\/p>\n

Cote d\u2019Ivoire<\/strong>– Men\u2019s national team of the year<\/p>\n

Allez Casa<\/strong>– Fair Play Award<\/p>\n

TP Mazembe<\/strong>– Club of the Year<\/p>\n

Etebo Oghenekaro<\/strong> \u2013 Most Promising Player<\/p>\n

Victor Oshimen<\/strong>– Best Young Player<\/p>\n

Herve Renard- Coach of the Year<\/strong> – The Frenchman, who led Zambia to victory in the tournament in 2012, is the first person to coach two different countries to the title.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Player of the Year:<\/strong> Gaelle Enganamouit (Cameroon)<\/p>\n

Bakary papa Gassama (Gambia)<\/strong> \u2013 Referee of the year<\/p>\n

C.K. Gyamfi<\/strong> of Ghana and Mbappe Lempe<\/strong> of Cameroon- African Legend
\n–
\nBy: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been named as 2015 CAF Player of the Year ahead of Yaya Toure and Ghana\u2019s Andre Ayew. The award was handed out at the CAF Awards Gala held in Lagos. He is the first Gabonese to win the award since its inception. He got 143 votes while Toure and Ayew […]<\/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":[142,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180119","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=180119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}