{"id":282170,"date":"2017-01-06T06:04:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T06:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=282170"},"modified":"2017-01-06T06:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T06:04:40","slug":"riyad-mahrez-leicester-winger-is-named-africas-best-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=282170","title":{"rendered":"Riyad Mahrez: Leicester winger is named Africa&#8217;s best player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Leicester forward Riyad Mahrez has won the Confederation of African Football&#8217;s player of the year award.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Algerian, who inspired Leicester to the Premier League title, is already the PFA Player of the Year and BBC African Footballer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Borussia Dortmund&#8217;s Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was second and Senegal and Liverpool striker Sadio Mane came third.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal and Nigeria forward Alex Iwobi won the young player award.<\/p>\n<p>Countryman and Manchester City striker, Kelechi Iheanacho was in contention for the honour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester forward Riyad Mahrez has won the Confederation of African Football&#8217;s player of the year award. The 25-year-old Algerian, who inspired Leicester to the Premier League title, is already the PFA Player of the Year and BBC African Footballer of the Year. Borussia Dortmund&#8217;s Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was second and Senegal and Liverpool striker [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282170","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=282170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}