At last CAF has come up with the Top 3 nominees for the 2008 APOTY award, dropping Drogba and Zaki. This has laid to rest the argument that Zaki is winning this one. The final shortlist goes thus:

Final shortlist

Glo-CAF Player of the Year (Across the world)

Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal and Togo)

Michael Essien (Chelsea and Ghana)

Mohamed Aboutreika (Al-Ahly and Egypt)



Glo-CAF Player of the Year (Across Africa)

Ahmed Hassan (Al-Ahly and Egypt)

Flavio Amado (Al-Ahly and Angola)

Mohamed Aboutreika (Al-Ahly and Egypt)

Stephen Worgu (Enyimba FC and Nigeria)

Tresor Mputu Mabi (T.P. Mazembe and DR Congo)



National Team of the Year

Cameroon

Egypt

Nigeria



Club of the Year

Al-Ahly (Egypt)

Club Sportif Sfaxien (Tunisia)

Coton Sport (Cameroon)



Young Player of the Year

Salomon Kalou (Chelsea and Cote d’Ivoire)

Stephane Mbia (Stade Rennais and Cameroon)

Victor Obinna Nsofor (Inter Milan and Nigeria).



Women’s footballer of the year

Alice Mattlou (South Africa)

Genevova Anonma (Equatorial Guinea)

Ngo Ndoumbouk Marlyse (Cameroon).



Coach of the Year

Alain Oumbledon (CotonSport)

Hassan Shehata (Egypt national team)

Jose Manuel (Al-Ahly)


http://www.cafonline.com/?lng=1&module=media&ANC=NewsPages&TNews=18&idrub=98861&idnews=84176

think its going to be hard for me to pick the best out of these three great footballers.for me,it could go to any of them.i love essien, because he is the engine of my teams chelsea and Ghana.i also love adebayor cos he is the only true striker in arsenal right now and i think aboutrika or abu striker is also a force to reckon with.

Putting Nigeria as a nominee for best National team or Nsofor as best young player.

Are they trying to ridicule us?

dayokanu:

Putting Nigeria as a nominee for best National team or Nsofor as best young player.

Are they trying to ridicule us?

Nigeria: Poor ANC performance, but with 6-0-0 WCQ campaign(read somewhere the only country in the world that didn't drop a point in the WCQ), I think the nomination is not out of place, even though everybody knows Egypt is winning it.
Nsofor: Because of Nigeria's firm grip of age-grade tournaments every year, at least one Nigerian usually appears in the category of Young APOY award. Martins(2003,2004), Mikel(2005), Taiwo(2nd in 2005, and winner 2006),Ganiyu Oseni(3rd in 2007). I knew one Nigerian will also make the shortlist this year but I thought it would be Ogbuke. Nsofor too did not have a bad year. He deserves nomination. But winning? With Kalou, I doubt if he can win it.

adebayor is favourite,but eto deserve it

abrahym:

adebayor is favourite,but eto deserve it

Eto'o? Is he a nominee?

dayokanu:

Putting Nigeria as a nominee for best National team or Nsofor as best young player.

Are they trying to ridicule us?

You are thinking exactly what I was thinking. Maybe it's because Glo are the sponsors.

Gervinho should be there ahead of Kalou sef as he was rated as the second best player of the Olympics by many behind Messi. Nsofor should not be there ahead of Obasi. And I am surprised Alex Song's performance at the ACN was overlooked.

iT'S RIDICULOUS TO HAVE A SEGREGRATION OF APOTY.

WDH IS "ACROSS AFRICA" AND "ACROSS THE WORLD".

CAF LIVES LARGELY IN HYPOCRISY.

SHOULD ABOU TREKA LOSE THIS, THEN SORRY TO AFRICAN FOOTBALL

Yeap, I also think Gervinho deserves a spot. Ditto for Song.

Pls which club does Nsofor play for. Cos I hadly see him play for Inter Milan maybe he is now at
Alaba [b]Inter[/b]national Market

dayokanu:

Pls which club does Nsofor play for. Cos I hadly see him play for Inter Milan maybe he is now at
Alaba [b]Inter[/b]national Market

very funny!!!!
how many intergames u dey watch sef
the guy just dey come up, free am. na small e dey start.



team of the year, has nigeria in it
caf is run by idiots and morons!!!!!
why will the olympic team be left out and super eagles be nominated?
it dsnt make sense!!!!!


african player of the year has micheal essien on the list and zaki left out
the awards is a joke i swear!!!!!
a nations cup winner is left for sum1 who lost all the cup competitions final he playd last year

rubbish!!!!!!


next thing we will hear, essien will be name player of the year
just how kanoute won it last year!!!!!

dayokanu:

Pls which club does Nsofor play for. Cos I hadly see him play for Inter Milan maybe he is now at
Alaba [b]Inter[/b]national Market

stop being funny

Nsofor would surely win that award, forget the fact that Gervinho was quite okay against a few teams, how well did he play against Nigeria and where did they land ? in the finals ?

I cant fathom why Essien is there on that list though, old glory dey count ?

dayokanu:

Pls which club does Nsofor play for. Cos I hadly see him play for Inter Milan maybe he is now at
Alaba [b]Inter[/b]national Market

I have told you before to stop wasting your talent and try your hands on Standup comedy!!

The award is Adebayor's!!