{"id":117211,"date":"2015-05-18T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=117211"},"modified":"2015-05-18T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:16:00","slug":"ghanaian-andre-ayew-named-top-african-player-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/ghanaian-andre-ayew-named-top-african-player-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Andre Ayew named top African player in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana and Marseille midfielder Andre Ayew has been named best African player in France\u2019s Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 25-year-old beat Ivory Coast\u2019s Max-Alain Gradel (Saint-Etienne)and Tunisia\u2019s Aymen Abdennour (Monaco) to the Marc-Vivien Foe Trophy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is set to be the last thing he will achieve as a Marseille players as he has stated he is leaving the club at the end of the season. Ayew scored 10 goals in 27 appearances for the French giants this campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He joined the club in 2007, going out on loan to L\u2019Orient and then Arles-Avignon in the early part of his career before becoming a key member of the team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe president (Vincent Labrune) has spoken thus everything has been brought out into the open more or less,\u201d said Ayew, who has played 158 games and scored 43 goals for Marseille.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am going to leave the club and it is a page turned. \u201cThere are lots of things behind the decision. We tried to find a solution which would enable me to stay but for both parties it was complicated, whether it be for sporting or financial reasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI was expecting more, I hoped the club would have a more competitive team for next year that could be title contenders and that\u2019s not certain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlso the club cannot offer me the same salary that I\u2019m on at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ayew, whose younger brother Jordan was also at Marseille before leaving for Lorient at the beginning of the season, has attracted interest from several English Premier League clubs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Previous winners of Marc-Vivien Foe Trophy<\/strong><br \/>\n2014: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria\/Lille)<br \/>\n2013: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon\/Saint-\u00c9tienne)<br \/>\n2012: Youn\u00e8s Belhanda (Morocco\/Montpellier H\u00e9rault SC)<br \/>\n2011: Gervinho (Ivory Coast\/Lille)<br \/>\n2010: Gervinho (Ivory Coast\/Lille)<br \/>\n2009: Marouane Chamakh (Morocco\/Bordeaux)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana and Marseille midfielder Andre Ayew has been named best African player in France\u2019s Ligue 1. The 25-year-old beat Ivory Coast\u2019s Max-Alain Gradel (Saint-Etienne)and Tunisia\u2019s Aymen Abdennour (Monaco) to the Marc-Vivien Foe Trophy. It is set to be the last thing he will achieve as a Marseille players as he has stated he is leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":117212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaian Andre Ayew named top African player in France - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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