{"id":20137,"date":"2011-12-23T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/yaya-toure-crowned-africa-player-of-the-year-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:44:33","slug":"yaya-toure-crowned-africa-player-of-the-year-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/yaya-toure-crowned-africa-player-of-the-year-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaya Toure crowned Africa Player of the Year 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/50f0yaya_toure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35279\" title=\"yaya_toure\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/50f0yaya_toure.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a>Cote d\u2019 Ivoire and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has been crowned the 2011 Africa Best Player for the first time pipping Seydou Keita and Andre Ayew to the award.<\/p>\n<p>Toure came out top in the annual award for the year under review sponsored by Glo Mobile, one of the official sponsors of the African Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The three players received the Golden, Silver and Bronze trophies respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Yaya Toure starred for Manchester City helping them to win the English FA Cup by scoring the final goal against Stoke City and has continued his heroics as they lead the standings this season.<\/p>\n<p>Sports personalities including a host of legends of the beautiful game from the continent gathered at the Banquet Hall, State House to honour nominees for the year under review.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: Citifmonline<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cote d\u2019 Ivoire and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has been crowned the 2011 Africa Best Player for the first time pipping Seydou Keita and Andre Ayew to the award. Toure came out top in the annual award for the year under review sponsored by Glo Mobile, one of the official sponsors of the African Nations Cup. The three players received the Golden, Silver and Bronze trophies respectively. <\/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-20137","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>Yaya Toure crowned Africa Player of the Year 2011 - 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\/23\/yaya-toure-crowned-africa-player-of-the-year-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Yaya Toure crowned Africa Player of the Year 2011 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Cote d\u2019 Ivoire and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has been crowned the 2011 Africa Best Player for the first time pipping Seydou Keita and Andre Ayew to the award. 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