Nigerian International forward Victor Moses has been excluded from the final three man nominee for the 2017 African Footballer of the Year Award 90minutesgoal.com reports.

The final three players shortlisted by CAF on Monday morning are Sadio Mane (Senegal/Liverpool), Mohamed Salah (Egypt/Liverpool) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon/Borussia Dortmund).
Formerly called the GLO CAF Award, it has since be rebranded and rechristened the AITEO CAF Award after Nigerian oil giant AITEO Group over the sponsorship of the annual event in October 2017.

In the female category, Super Falcons star forward Asisat Oshola was among the final nominee alongside Chrestina Kgatlana (South Africa) and Gabrielle Onguene (Cameroon).

Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr was also nominated for coach of the year alongside Hector Cuper (Egypt) and CAF Champions league winning coach Hussein Amoutta (Wydada Casablanca).

The Nigeria U-20 female national team and the Super Eagles were also nominated for team of the year.

Gabonese and Borussia Dortmund star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the current holder of the award while Sadio Mane has been in good form for club and country as he helped Sengal qualify for the world Cup.

The odds favour Egyptian and Liverpool star Mohammed Salah who has been in good form for Liverpool and is currently the highest goal scorer in the Baclays English Premier League with 20 goals after 18 matches played this season.

Sallah who is the current BBC African footballer of the year, also helped Egypt qualify for Russia 2018 World Cup after a 28 years absence from the quadrennial event.

The award will be held in Accra, Ghana on January 4, 2018.

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up liverpool

African football with confusion, if u are not a striker, scoring goals, no matter how good u are forget about wining African best.

In its due time and season, he will win it.