{"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\/2017\/01\/riyad-mahrez-leicester-winger-is-named-africas-best-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Riyad Mahrez: Leicester winger is named Africa’s best player"},"content":{"rendered":"
Leicester forward Riyad Mahrez has won the Confederation of African Football’s player of the year award.<\/p>\n
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
Borussia Dortmund’s Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was second and Senegal and Liverpool striker Sadio Mane came third.<\/p>\n
Arsenal and Nigeria forward Alex Iwobi won the young player award.<\/p>\n
Countryman and Manchester City striker, Kelechi Iheanacho was in contention for the honour.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leicester forward Riyad Mahrez has won the Confederation of African Football’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’s Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was second and Senegal and Liverpool striker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n