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Vincent Enyeama
Nigeria and Lille of France goalkeeper,
Vincent Enyeama has made the final top
three for the GLO/CAF 2014 African Player of
the Year award.
Gabonese midfielder Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang and Ivorian midfieder Yaya
Toure also made the cut.
The trio made the cut following votes from
Head Coaches or Technical Directors of the
National Associations affiliated to CAF.
Ghana’s Asamoah Gyan and Ahmed Musa of
Nigeria failed to make the final list.
For the African Player of the Year (Based in
Africa), Algerian duo, Akram Djahnit and El
Hedi Belamieri are in contention with DR
Congo forward Firmin Mubele Ndombe.
The winners will be unveiled at the Glo-CAF
Awards Gala on Thursday, 8 January 2015 in
Lagos, Nigeria.

source from www.goal.com

When is the 2014 Fifa Ballon d'Or?
All you need to know ahead of the Gala in
Zurich, when the identity of the year's
greatest footballer will finally be known
By Robin Bairner
Jan 6, 2015 10:00:00
The Fifa Ballon d'Or is the
most coveted individual
prize in world football
and will be awarded for
the fifth time in history
on January 12 in Zurich.
Three finalists have been shortlisted for the
prize, with Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo
favourite to retain his crown ahead of
Barcelona attacker Lionel Messi and Bayern
Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who played
a pivotal role as Germany won the World Cup
in the summer.
While the Portuguese claimed the 2013 prize
last January, he is still playing catch-up to his
Argentine rival, who had taken the honour of
world's greatest player for the first three
years since its inception.
This elite trio have been whittled down from
an initial shortlist of 23, which was named on
October 28, with the identity of the three stars
only revealed on December 1.
The award is an amalgam of the previous Fifa
World Player of the Year and France Football's
Ballon d'Or and, as such, the methodology to
decide the winner is a hybrid of previous
prizes.
The captains and coaches of national teams all
round the world vote for a winner, but so too
do journalists.
It was media representatives who decided the
original Ballon d'Or, which was established in
1956 and paid tribute to the game's greatest
stars playing in Europe. As such, Pele did not
win the prize during his career and was
awarded an honorary title by Fifa in 2014.
Indeed, Fifa only created their World Player of
the Year title in 1991.
But it is not just the Fifa Ballon d'Or that will
be presented at the Awards Gala in Zurich.
The year's greatest coach will be unveiled, as
well as the Fifa FIFPro World XI and the Puskas
Award, which was first presented in 2009 to
the scorer of the most beautiful goal in the
preceding 12 months. In this regard, Ronaldo
is one up on Messi, having won the inaugural
prize.
Of course, Goal will provide extensive content
in the days leading up to the Gala, with
interviews, reaction and analysis of the event,
plus live coverage of the ceremony itself.

Mtcheew I was expecting ti see something like: petrol will be sold at 60 naira per litre, kerosine 50 a litre, bag of rice 6000 naira, bag is cement 800-1000 naira, free primary/secondary school education, return of fuel subsidy, scholarship for our best students, reconstruction of Ajaokuta iron industry, bokoram has finally being defeated after four years of terrorising Nigerians, i will no longer contest for presidency, Okonjo Iweala is no longer the finance minister, We a taking sport in Nigeria as one of our topmost priority, by this time next we shall celebrate 1 year of uninterrupted power supply, improvement in our science and tecnology, reduction in the members of house of assembly salaries etc , chai smh.

peter1994:
.edit your typo in d engineering spelling.

personally the list is ok, but i feel you should let other engineering courses in (even though we know that ChE n Mech are d creme la creme)

creme de la creme

Ronaldo year has being remarkable, but his performance at the world cup was not up to par, while messi performance was rather too low before the world cup where he scored 4 goals in the wolrd cup, thanks to 2 goal against underperforming Nigeria my sorry country, Nuer on his own has being wonderful for both club and country.

Haywhymido:
Booked.

ok

The original list of 23 players, who are considered the best
players in the world, was narrowed down to three predictable picks; Real
Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Bayern Munich’s Manuel Neuer were invited to Zurich to be in attendance for the ceremony on January 12th, 2015. Ronaldo is the overwhelming favorite to win the Ballon d’Or again for the second consecutive year. However, 2014 saw Lionel Messi take the Argentina
National team to the World Cup Finals in Brazil where his team was minutes
away from perhaps winning the game on penalty kicks. Manuel Neuer is the
favorite of many people recently including Manchester United coach Louis Van Gaal and others who believe that the Ballon d’Or winner should come from the country that won the 2014 World Cup, in this case Germany. For the past six years the award has either been won by Messi or Ronaldo as
they have claimed a duopoly on the sport’s top individual prize. Messi won
the award from 2009-2012 and Ronaldo won in 2008 and 2013. There is a 67
percent chance that one of those two will win the award again for the
seventh consecutive time. Both players are also finalists for the FIFA FIFPro World XI. Both made the list as forwards and should be on the final XI when
it is announced. Manuel Neuer who won the FIFA Golden Gloves award in Brazil for the World
Cup’s top goalkeeper, is looking to become just the second ever goalkeeper
to win the Ballon d’Or. Moscow’s Lev Yashin won the award in 1963. Vote for who you want to win the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or in our poll below

The International Federation of Association Football awards the 'best player
of the year' with the FIFA Ballon d'Or. Previously two separate awards, the FIFA player of the year award and the
Ballon d'Or, these merged in 2010 to form the FIFA Ballon d'Or. The original Ballon d'Or, which translates as 'the Golden Ball', was an
association football award presented to the European player to have shown
the best performance in the previous year. A change of rules in 1995
extended the eligibility of the award to non-European players if they were
enlisted with a European club. Since 2007 all professional players, no matter
where they come from or who they play for, could be nominated. Coaches, captains and journalists cast their votes each year for their
favourite players. Players are judged not only on their technical skills but
also on their sociability and disposition.

Excitement is gradually building up in the city of Lagos, Nigeria’s
commercial nerve-center, as it prepares to host top stakeholders in the
African football community at the 2014 Glo-CAF Awards. Since the Confederation of African Football announced in October this year
that Lagos, Nigeria, will host the prestigious Gala nite of the 2014 Glo- Caf
Awards, sponsors and organizers of the event, Globacom said that plans are
afoot to stage a memorable Glo-Caf Awards for the third time in Lagos since
the inception of the awards. Globacom, in a press statement in Lagos on Wednesday, said that “the Glo-
CAF Awards 2014 will parade the greatest African football legends, including
the new African Footballer of the Year and winners in 12 other categories.”
The categories include African Player of The Year (Based in Africa), National
Team of The Year, Club of The Year, and Coach of The Year. Other categories are Women’s National Team of The Year, Women’s
Footballer of The Year, Most Promising Talent, Referee of The Year, Legend of
The year, Fair Play Award, Platinum Award – Single nominee, and Africa
Finest XI.
Yaya Toure of Cote d’ivoire and a mid-fielder with Manchester City Football
Club, England is the current African champion. The event is expected to congregate top football celebrities across Africa, as
well as top government officials from Nigeria, Ghana and other parts of
Africa, the statement said. As usual, the Awards and possible winners have been the subject of
discussions in the media and among football fans and youth across Africa.
The list of twenty-five top contenders for the 2014 African Footballer of the
Year and twenty nominees for Africa Footballer of the Year (Africa-based)
was released by Confederation of African Football last week.
Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was the host of the inaugural edition of Glo-Caf Awards in 2005 followed by Accra, Ghana in 2006; Lome, Togo hosted the
2007 edition while the event was held in Lagos, Nigeria, for the first time in
2008 before it moved back to Accra in 2009. Cairo, the capital of Egypt
hosted the 2010 edition.
The event was held back-to-back in Accra, Ghana between 2011 and 2012
while Lagos hosted the 2013 Edition.

The front page should have a place where the most important and most read updates for that day will stay (dis should be at the top), while other regular updates should be added every five or ten minutes (it should be at the middle moving from top to down and the last dissapearing when a new updates is being added), this will make it interesting. While the most trending news or story for that week should stay at the bottom of the front page.

to be a genius is different from being intelleligent, a genius dont need to go to school to be a genius, but to be intellegent you need both formal and informal education, so genius are known for their change the world inventions, and out of the box thinking, so prof. Wole Soyinka is not a genius neither is prof. Osinbanjo

A girl once told me she was a virgin and was nt ready for any relationship yet, but few months later i learnt she was pregnat for a guy who is not even up to my level.

not until he start playing well

The full list of winners of the
2013 CAF Awards:
African Footballer of the Year
Yaya Toure
Best African-based Player
Mohamed Aboutrika
Coach of the Year
Stephen Keshi
Most promising Talent
Kelechi Iheanacho
National Team of the Year
Nigeria
National Youth Team of the
Year:
Nigeria U17
Club of the Year
Al Ahly of Egypt
Referee of the Year
Haimoudi Djamel
Legends of the Year
Bruno Metsu, Jose Faria
Africa XI – Vincent Enyeama –
Ahmed Fathi, Fari, Kevin Constant
– Mikel Obi, Yaya Toure, Jonathan
Pitroipa, Mohamed Aboutrika –
Emmanuel Emenike, Asamoah
Gyan, Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang Coach: Stephen
Keshi

Yaya king again
Yaya Toure was a runaway
winner of the 2013 CAF Player of
the Year Award, according to a
detailed result released by CAF.
The 31-year-old Ivorian
powerhouse won his third
straight award on Thursday after
he polled a total of 373 points.
Mikel Obi was second on 265
points with Drogba third with
236 points.
Only coaches of Nigeria, Sudan,
Zambia and Libya voted Mikel as
their best player of the past year.
This was against the 28 national
team coaches who voted Yaya as
their best player.
Two players tied in fourth place –
Jonathan Pitriopa of Burkina
Faso and Pierre Aubameyang –
after they totalled 202 points
each.
The other Nigeria stars in the top
10 of nominees were Vincent
Enyeama (199 points, sixth),
Emmanuel Emenike (191,
seventh) and Ahmed Musa (181,
ninth).

And Yaya becomes the first african player to win the bbc african player of the year and caf african player of the year at the same time

let mikel wait till next year, and mind you this will make him better he is just 26 or so

And that is all about the glo-caf award 2013, do you think yaya derserve it more than mikel or drogba. Well i think he derserve it. Critics and contributions are welcome. Right now its Psquare on stage

WAO YAYA TOURE WINS THE AFRICAN BEST PLAYER. CONGRAT TO YOU YAYA

Africa XI - Vincent Enyeama -
Ahmed Fathi, Fari, Kevin Constant
- Mikel Obi, Yaya Toure, Mohamed
Aboutrika - Emmanuel Emenike,
Asamoah Gyan, Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang Coach: Stephen
Keshi

African Player of the Year based
in Africa - The 35-year-old
Mohamed Aboutrika of Egypt
beats Nigeria's Sunday Mba and
compatriot Ahmed Fathi after he
helped Al Ahly to win an eighth
CAF Champions League

The winner of the African
Player of the Year (based
in Africa) is Mohamed
Aboutreika.

Nigerian Pop highlife star Flavour sings
for the audience

CAF Legends Award - The late
Senegal coach Bruno Metsu who
died in October, and former
Morocco coach Jose Faria, who
died at the age of 80

Referee of the Year is Haimoudi
Djamel

acrobatic
display to entertain the guests

Most Promising Talent Award -
Kelechi Iheanacho pips Ebenezer
Assifuah (Ghana) and Saleh
Gomaa (Egypt) in this category

Coach of the Year Award - Keshi
beats Nigeria U17 coach Manu
Garba and Burkina Faso coach
Paul Put to this award

- Fair Play Award goes to the
Nigerian football supporters and
RAFIU LADIPO proudly receives the
award on behalf of his
organisation

National team of the year: NIGERIA SCOOP THE AWARD

Youth National team of the
Year
Winner: The Golden Eaglets won
a record fourth U17 World Cup in
fine style in UAE in November,
little wonder they are the only
nominees in this category this
year.
National Team of the Year
Winner: Nigeria Super Eagles will
be runaway winners of this
award ahead of Burkina Faso,
who they defeated to win a third
Nations Cup, and Ethiopia, who
they outscored to qualify for a
fifth World Cup.
Club of the Year
Winner: Egypt’s Al Ahly extended
their dominance in the CAF
Champions League, when they
won an eighth title at the
expense of Orlando Pirates of
South Africa.
Tunisia’s Club Sfaxien won a third
CAF Confederation Cup by edging
past TP Mazembe also in the year
under review, but Ahly should
scoop this again.
Most Promising Talent
Winner: Nigeria’s Kelechi
Iheanacho is expected to follow
more famous countrymen like
Mikel Obi and Taye Taiwo, who
have own this category.
Iheanacho was picked as the
MVP of the U17 World Cup and
finished as second leading scorer
of the tournament.
The other two nominees are
Saleh Gomaa of the Egypt U20
and his Ghanaian counterpart
Ebenezer Assifuah.
Coach of the Year
Winner: Stephen Keshi will rule
okay here after he became only
the second man to win the
AFCON both as a player and
coach.
He won the tournament against
all odds even with little hope in
his team from Nigerians. He also
qualified the team for Brazil 2014
World Cup as well as deliver CHAN
2014 ticket to Nigeria for the
first time.
Other nominees: Nigeria U17
coach Manu Garba and Paul Put
of Burkina Faso.
Best Africa-based Player
Winner: Mohamed Aboutrika
helped his beloved Ahly to win
yet another Champions League
title. He will beat Nigeria's Sunday
Mba, who shone at the AFCON in
South Africa.
African Footballer of the Year
Winner: Nigeria’s Mikel Obi
deserves to be named Africa
Footballer of 2013 following his
exploits with the Eagles at the
AFCON and the FIFA
Confederations Cup. He also did
well for Chelsea in all
competition, helping them to win
a first-ever UEFA Europa League
in May.
Other nominees: Yaya Toure:
Cote d'Ivoire midfielder is a good
player who did well for country
and club Manchester City.
Didier Drogba: He has been
doing well for Galatasaray but
failed to propel Cote d'Ivoire to
win AFCON, same as Yaya.