{"id":19863,"date":"2011-12-22T22:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/gutted-ayew-already-looking-to-win-next-years-caf-award\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:03:02","slug":"gutted-ayew-already-looking-to-win-next-years-caf-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/22\/gutted-ayew-already-looking-to-win-next-years-caf-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutted Ayew Already Looking To Win Next Year\u2019s Caf Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"58.5\">\n<div readability=\"8\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/gutted-ayew-already-looking-to-win-next-years-caf-award\/a-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101851\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gutted Ayew looking to win next year's Caf award\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ee43d252627a2bbd2d19b34fd60425b7bf51.124.92.jpg\" alt=\"Gutted Ayew looking to win next year's Caf award\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ayew at the post ceremony press conference with Toure, Keita and Souleymane Habuba<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Andre Ayew has expressed his profound disappointment in missing out on the 2011 African Player of the Year award but says he is looking to win next year\u2019s edition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Marseille\u00a0midfielder came third to Mali\u2019s Seydou Keita and eventual winner Yaya Toure of Ivory Coats at a coulorful\u00a0ceremony at the State Banquet Hall in Accra on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>And though the Ghanaian admitted to his disappointment, he insists he will be looking to win the award as early as next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I am disappointed not to have won the award\u00a0in front\u00a0of my family and my fans but that is football,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI proud to have come behind Yaya and Keita who are older than me and have played much more games than I have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am young and have my career ahead of me so I will work hard and next year we will see again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayew\u2019s failure to win the Caf gong meant he was unsuccessful in his bid to succeed his father, Abedi Pele as the last Ghanaian to have won the award way back in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>He however can take solace in the fact that he won the BBC African Player of the Year last week \u2013 an award which is voted for by the fans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.mobi\/yaya-toure-crowned-african-player-of-the-year\/\" rel=\"prev\">Yaya Toure Crowned African Player Of The Year, Andre Ayew Third!<\/a><br \/>Next post: <a href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.mobi\/ghana-dominate-2011-africa-best-xi-side\/\" rel=\"next\">Ghana Dominate 2011 Africa Best Xi Side<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ayew at the post ceremony press conference with Toure, Keita and Souleymane Habuba Andre Ayew has expressed his profound disappointment in missing out on the 2011 African Player of the Year award but says he is looking to win next year\u2019s edition. The 22-year-old Marseille\u00a0midfielder came third to Mali\u2019s Seydou Keita and eventual winner Yaya Toure of Ivory Coats at a coulorful\u00a0ceremony at the State Banquet Hall in Accra on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gutted Ayew Already Looking To Win Next Year\u2019s Caf Award - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/22\/gutted-ayew-already-looking-to-win-next-years-caf-award\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gutted Ayew Already Looking To Win Next Year\u2019s Caf Award - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ayew at the post ceremony press conference with Toure, Keita and Souleymane Habuba Andre Ayew has expressed his profound disappointment in missing out on the 2011 African Player of the Year award but says he is looking to win next year\u2019s edition. 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