{"id":428117,"date":"2011-05-22T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/22\/odemwingie-beats-gyan-to-epl-african-player-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:33:59","slug":"odemwingie-beats-gyan-to-epl-african-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/22\/odemwingie-beats-gyan-to-epl-african-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Odemwingie beats Gyan to EPL African Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"60.1141078838\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/sports\/\" title=\"View all posts in Sports\" rel=\"category tag\">Sports<\/a> \u00bb Odemwingie beats Gyan to EPL African Player of the Year<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:12 PM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Asamoah_Gyan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34003\" title=\"Asamoah_Gyan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Asamoah_Gyan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Nigeria striker Peter Odemwingie has beaten Black Stars striker Asamoah Gyan to the English Premier League African Player of the season 2010\/2011.<\/p>\n<p>Odemwingie garnered the most votes in a poll conducted by renowned football magazine, New African Soccer that saw readers, journalists and African players in the Premier League take part.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the organizers, New African Soccer copied to GNA Sports said the Nigerian emerged tops in the poll conducted by the website with over one million voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOdemwingie, who plays for West Bromwich Albion FC polled highest over Ghana\u2019s Sunderland player Asamoah Gyan who came second, and Manchester City\u2019s Ivorian star Yaya Toure in third place,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year old Nigerian had been in spectacular form for West Brom scoring 15 times in his first season as well as being voted Premier League Player of the months of September 2010 and April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s Ivorian Salomon Kalou and West Ham\u2019s Nigerian striker Victor Obinna complete the top five in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA ceremony that would bestow the award and recognition on the players will be hosted by New African Soccer at a date to be determined soon,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>| | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Currently%20reading%20http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/05\/22\/odemwingie-beats-gyan-to-epl-african-player-of-the-year\/\" title=\"Click to send this page to Twitter!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet This!<\/a> | <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/05\/22\/odemwingie-beats-gyan-to-epl-african-player-of-the-year\/\" title=\"Odemwingie beats Gyan to EPL African Player of the Year\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Odemwingie beats Gyan to EPL African Player of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb Sports \u00bb Odemwingie beats Gyan to EPL African Player of the Year Page last updated at Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:12 PM \/\/ Nigeria striker Peter Odemwingie has beaten Black Stars striker Asamoah Gyan to the English Premier League African Player of the season 2010\/2011. Odemwingie garnered the most votes in a poll conducted by renowned football magazine, New African Soccer that saw readers, journalists and African players in the Premier League take part. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-428117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Odemwingie beats Gyan to EPL African Player of the Year - 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\/05\/22\/odemwingie-beats-gyan-to-epl-african-player-of-the-year\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Odemwingie beats Gyan to EPL African Player of the Year - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"You Are Here: Home \u00bb Sports \u00bb Odemwingie beats Gyan to EPL African Player of the Year Page last updated at Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:12 PM \/\/ Nigeria striker Peter Odemwingie has beaten Black Stars striker Asamoah Gyan to the English Premier League African Player of the season 2010\/2011. 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