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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Tuesday revealed the top three nominees for the Glo-CAF Awards 2009 at a press briefing in Accra, Ghana.
Ex-Black Stars defender Anthony Baffoe revealed the identity of the nominees for the various categories at the ceremony attended by Kwesi Nyantakyi, President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and other sporting dignitaries.
The flagship award, African Footballer of the Year 2009 has Ivorian striker, Didier Drogba,Ghana midfielder Michael Essien and Cameroonian forward Samuel Eto’o Fils as the contenders.
The top three for other categories namely; Best African Player on the continent, National Team of the Year, Club of the Year, Young Player of the Year and Coach of the Year were also revealed.
The winners of the respective categories will be announced at the Awards Gala fixed for March 11,2010 at the Banquet Hall, State House, in Accra, Ghana.
This is the fifth time cellular giants Globacom is sponsoring the annual awards which seeks to reward distinguished football personalities for their performance during the year under review.
Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor picked the flagship prize at the 2008 Awards Gala held in Lagos, Nigeria last year.

Top Three nominees (alphabetical order)
*African Footballer of the Year 2009
Didier Drogba (Chelsea and Cote d’Ivoire)
Michael Essien (Chelsea and Ghana)
Samuel Eto ’o Fils (Inter Milan and Cameroon)

*Best African player on the continent 2009
Uche Agba (Heartland FC and Nigeria)
Mputu Mabi (T.P. Mazembe and DR Congo)
Abdelmalek Ziaya (Entente Setif and Algeria)

*National Team of the Year 2009
Algeria
Cote d ’Ivoire
Ghana

*Club of the Year 2009
Heartland FC (Nigeria)
Stade Malien (Mali)
T.P. Mazembe (DR Congo)

*Young Player of the Year 2009
Dominic Adiyiah (AC Milan and Ghana U-20)
Kermit Erasmus (Feyenoord and South Africa U-20)
Sani Emmanuel (Bodens BK and Nigeria U-17)

*Coach of the Year 2009
Diego Garzitto (T.P. Mazembe)
John Obuh (Nigeria U-17)
Sellas Tetteh (Ghana U-20)

The Turkish Football Federation has
confirmed that Guus Hiddink has been
appointed as the new head coach of
Turkey's national side. The Dutch gaffer
has signed a two-year deal with an
option for two additional years.
Hiddink recently revealed that he
wouldn't extend his expiring contract
with the Russian FA and had since been
continually linked with nations such as
Nigeria, Ivory Coast and North Korea.
However, the successful coach has now
decided to commit his future to Turkey.
Hiddink's contract will start on August
1, 2010.
His first task will be to guide the Turks
to Euro 2012. Turkey were paired with
Germany, Belgium, Austria, Azerbaijan
and Kazakhstan for the qualifying campaign.
The 63-year-old Hiddink has been successful as the national team coach of South Korea, Australia and Russia in the past.

are u serious?
tot Rooney, Scholes and Evra got yellow
didnt know Carrick got a yellow o

Carrick was not on a yellow b4 the evil REF sent him off
The 3 players booked were Scholes, Rooney and Evra

What is your beef with Dinho?
He was fantastic at least in the first 15 mins and when Seedorf came on.

the introduction of seedorf also boosted them. at old trafford the game would have been much more attacking
from united but now that carrick is out i'm not sure wat will happen as scholes is not too reliable and the fletcher does not
have the ability to play passes like carrick can. ref handed milan a lifeline with that red card.