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Ivorian Yaya Toure heads list of CAF Player of the Year nominees
Reuters Published in Ahram Online on 07 - 11 - 2014

Reigning African Footballer of the Year Yaya Toure heads a list of five players from the English Premier League among 25 nominated on Friday by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the 2014 award
The Ivory Coast midfielder is on course to be named Africa's top player for a record fourth consecutive year and looks to be the standout performer on the shortlist again after helping Manchester City win the Premier League title last season.
Also on the list are Toure's international team mate and striker Wilfried Bony of Swansea City, Crystal Palace's Democratic Republic of Congo midfielder Yannick Bolasie and Senegalese midfielder Sadio Mane who plays for Southampton.
Tottenham Hotspur's Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who won the prize in 2008, is also in contention.
Toure and Adebayor are the only previous winners on the list, but other familiar names are Ghana forward Asamoah Gyan, Ivory Coast striker Gervinho, Gabon forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Chelsea's Nigeria midfielder Jon Obi Mikel and veteran Ivorian forward Didier Drogba, who finished second and third respectively last year, did not make the shortlist.
Algeria, who lost in this year's World Cup second round in extra time to eventual champions Germany, have the most players on the list -– goalkeeper Raïs M'Bolhi, midfielder Yacine Brahimi, and strikers Islam Slimani and Sofiane Feghouli.
The voting will be conducted by the national team coaches and technical directors of CAF member associations and the winner will be announced in Lagos, Nigeria on 8 January.
The full 25-man list:
Ahmed Musa (Nigeria, CSKA Moscow)
Asamoah Gyan (Ghana, Al Ain)
Dame N'doye (Senegal, Lokomotiv Moscow)
Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo, Tottenham)
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Cameroon, Schalke 04)
Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Tunisia, CS Sfaxien)
Ferdjani Sassi (Tunisia, CS Sfaxien)
Yao Kouassi Gervais ‘Gervinho' (Cote d'Ivoire, AS Roma)
Islam Slimani (Algeria, Sporting Lisbon)
Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana, Juventus)
Mehdi Benatia (Morocco, Bayern Munich)
Mohamed El Neny (Egypt, Basel)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon, Borussia Dortmund)
Rais M'Bolhi (Algeria, Philadelphia Union)
Sadio Mané (Senegal, Southampton)
Seydou Kieta (Mali, As Roma)
Sofiane Feghouli (Algeria, Valencia)
Stephane Mbia (Cameroon, Sevilla)
Thulani Serero (South Africa, Ajax)
Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon, Porto)
Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria, Lille)
Wilfried Bony (Cote d'Ivoire, Swansea)
Yacine Brahimi (Algeria, Porto)
Yannick Bolasie (DR Congo, Crystal Palace)
Yaya Toure (Cote d'Ivoire, Man City)
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