Yaya Toure Beats Vincent Enyeama To African Footballer Of The Year Award [SEE Full List Of Winners]

Yaya Toure

Ivorian Manchester City midfielder, Yaya Toure has been crowned the African Player of the Year 2014 by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) at an awards ceremony held in Lagos on Thursday, January 8, 2015.

Tis would be the fourth consecutive year that Toure would pick up the award. He beat off competition from Nigeria and Lille’s Vincent and Gabon/Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Nigeria’s Asisat Oshoala won the award for Women’s player of the year and Youth payer of the Year while Vincent Enyeama and CSKA Moscow’s Ahmed Musa were selected in the CAF team of the year.

See full list of winners below:

African Player of the YearYaya Toure (Cote d’Ivoire and Manchester City)

African Player of the Year – Based in AfricaFirmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo and AS Vita)

Women’s Player of the YearAsisat Oshoala (Nigeria and River Angels)

Youth Player of the YearAsisat Oshoala (Nigeria and River Angels)

Most Promising TalentYacine Brahimi (Algeria and Porto)

Coach of the YearKheireddine Madoui (ES Setif)

National Team of the YearAlgeria

Women’s National Team of the YearNigeria

Club of the YearES Setif (Algeria)

Referee of the YearPapa Bakary Gassama (Gambia)

Football Leader of the YearMoise Katumbi Chapwe – President of TP Mazembe (DR Congo) 

African Legend awardOryx Club (Cameroon) – winners of the maiden edition of CAF Champions League 1964
Stade Malien (Mali) – runner up of the maiden edition of CAF Champion’s League 1964

Platinum AwardDr Kwame Nkrumah (First President of Ghana)
His Excellency Goodluck Jonthan (President of Nigeria)

CAF Finest XI

Goalkeeper: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria)

Defenders: Jean Kasulula (DR Congo), Mehdi Benatia (Morocco), Stephane Mbia (Cameroon), Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana)

Midfielders: Yaya Toure (Cote d’Ivoire), Yacine Brahimi (Algeria), Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Tunisia), Ahmed Musa (Nigeria)

Forwards: Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)

Substitutes

Raïs M’Bolhi (Algeria), Firmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo), Ferdjani Sassi (Tunisia), Yao Kouasi Gervais ‘Gervinho (Cote d’Ivoire), Abdelrahman Fetori (Libya), Akram Djahnit (Algeria), Roger Assalé (Cote d’Ivoire)