Enyeama, Musa, Only Nigerians Nominated For African Player Of The Year

Twenty four players were counted as nominees with in-form Super Eagles players, Ahmed Musa and Vincent Enyeama making the list for the 2014 African player of the year award

CAF on Thursday released the list of nominees which has Algeria with the most number of nominations with four players, Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire have three nominations each, while Senegal and Ghana have two nominations each

Reigning player of the year, Yaya Tourewho is also nominated in the FIFA player of the year list, will have the two Nigerians to contend with, and Asamoah Gyan, Emmanuel Adebayor, Gervinho and Stephanie Mbia amongst others

20 home based players are also nominated for the Continental African player of the year Ejike Uzoenyi being the only Nigerian in the list for the Glo CAF Awards which will take place on Thursday, 8 January 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria.

Full List

Vincent Enyeama (Lille) Nigeria

Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscow) Nigeria

Asamoah Gyan (Al-Ain) Ghana

Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus) Ghana

Dame N’doye (Lokomotiv Moscow) Senegal

Sadio Mané (Southampton) Senegal

Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham) Togo

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Schalke 04), Cameroon

Stephane Mbia (Sevilla) Cameroon

Vincent Aboubakar (Porto) Cameroon

Yao Kouassi Gervais ‘Gervinho’ (AS Roma) Cote d’Ivoire

Yaya Toure (Manchester City) Cote d’Ivoire

Wilfred Bony (Swansea) Cote d’Ivoire

Fakhreddine Ben Youssef  (CS Sfaxien) Tunisia

Ferdjani Sassi (CS Sfaxien) Tunisia,

Islam Slimani (Sporting Lisbon) Algeria,

Raïs M’Bolhi (Philadelphia Union) Algeria,

Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia) Algeria

Yacine Brahimi (Porto) Algeria

Yannick Bolasie (Crystal Palace) DR Congo

Thulani Serero (Ajax) South Africa

Seydou Keita (AS Roma) Mali,

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) Gabon

Mohamed El Neny (Basel) Egypt