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Sadio Mane Wins African Best Player of the Year for 2019
Sadio Mane Wins African Best Player of the Year for 2019 ahead of his Liverpool team mate Mohamed Salah.
Who won the African Player of the Year 2019?
Sadio Mane wins African Best Player of the Year for 2019. The Senegalese finished ahead of Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah and Joel Matip to take the award. The 27-year-old received the accolade at a ceremony in Egypt on Tuesday 8 January.
Votes from head coaches/technical directors and captains of the senior national teams from CAF’s member associations saw Mane selected as the continent’s best footballer in 2019.
“Mane said he is really happy and at the same time really proud to win this award,” he said this at the ceremony organized by the Confederation of African Football in the Egyptian Red Sea city of Hurghada.
“It’s a big day for me, he said”
It’s official!The African Player of the Year for 2⃣0⃣1⃣9⃣ is #SadioMane
What an achievement for the Senegalese winger!
#CAFAwards2019 pic.twitter.com/BwFBBxFBR1 — #CAFAwards2019 (@CAF_Online) January 7, 2020
Mane scored 34 goal and produced 12 assists in 61 appearances in 2019, according to CAF statistics.
Neither Mohamed Salah nor Mahrez, who was playing for Manchester City, attended the CAF’s awards gala on Tuesday. Although Mahrez was featured in the FA Cup match against Manchester United where they beat Manchester united 3 -1 which he scored one of the goal
Other male awards went to Algerian coach Djamel Belmadi, Algerian Youcef Belaili for African Interclubs Player of the Year and Algeria’s national team.
The award for the youth category was given to Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi of Borussia Dortmund.
Female awardees included Nigerian Asisat Oshoala, South African coach Desiree Ellis, and Cameroon’s women national team.
The Egyptian Football Association also won the Federation of the Year award.