.Azubuike battles Etebor for most promising talent award
.Nwakali, Osimhen for Youth player of the year
.Dream Team, Eagles for National Team of the Year award
.Ngozi Ebere for Women Player of the Year
NIGERIA dominated the nomination for the other categories for
the 2015 Glo-CAF Awards released by the Confederation African Football on Monday.The categories are; Women Player of the Year, Youth Player of the Year, Most Promising Talent, Coach of the Year, Referee of the Year, African Legend, National Team of the Year, Women National Team of the Year, Club of the Year, Platinum Award.
NaijaSportsXtra gathered from the list, that victorious Golden Eaglets boss Emmanuel Amuneke was nominated for the Coach of the Year award while the duo of 2015 FIFA U-17 top scorer, Victor Osimhen and his captain, Kelechi Nwakali made the Youth player of the year nomination.
Just concluded CAF U-23 mvp and top scorer,Azubuike Okechukwu and Etebo Oghenekaro go head-to-head for the Most Promising Talent award.
The winners will be decided by votes from the CAF Football and Media Committees except Legend and Platinum awards, which are not subject to vote while Referee of the Year Award will be decided by the votes of CAF Refereeing Committee.
The winners will be announced at the Glo-CAF Awards Gala
scheduled for Thursday, January 7, 2016 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Below are the nominees for the various categories in alphabetical order;
Women Player of the Year
Gabrielle Onguéné, Cameroon
Gaelle Enganamouit, Cameroon
Ngozi Ebere, Nigeria
N'rehy Tia Ines, Cote d’Ivoire
Portia Boakye, Ghana
Youth Player of the Year
Adama Traore, Mali
Kelechi Nwakali, Nigeria
Samuel Diarra, Mali
Victor Osimhen, Nigeria
Yaw Yeboah, Ghana
Most Promising Talent
Azubuike Okechukwu, Nigeria
Etebo Oghenekaro, Nigeria
Djigui Diarra, Mali
Mahmoud Abdelmonem ‘kahraba’, Egypt
Zinedine Ferhat, Algeria
Coach of the Year
Baye Ba, Mali, U17
Emmanuel Amunike, Nigeria U17
Fawzi Benzarti, Etoile Sportive de Sahel
Hervé Renard, Cote d’ivore
Patrice Carteron, TP Mazembe
Referee of the Year
Alioum Neant, Cameroon
Bakary Papa GASSAMA, Gambia
Eric Arnaud OTOGO CASTANE, Gabon
Ghead Zaglol GRISHA, Egypt
Janny SIKAZWE, Zambia
African Legend
Charles Kumi Gyamfi, Ghana
Samuel Mbappé Léppé, Cameroon
National Team of the Year
Cote d’Ivoire
Ghana
Mali U17
Nigeria U17
Nigeria U-23
Women National Team of the Year
Ghana
Cameroon
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Club of the Year
USM Algers , Algeria
TP Mazembe, DR Congo
Orlando Pirates, South Africa
Etoile Sportive du Sahel, Tunisia
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