{"id":447930,"date":"2017-12-17T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/17\/caf-president-arrives-in-accra-for-unveiling-of-footballer-of-the-year-nominees\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:00:14","slug":"caf-president-arrives-in-accra-for-unveiling-of-footballer-of-the-year-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/17\/caf-president-arrives-in-accra-for-unveiling-of-footballer-of-the-year-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF president arrives in Accra for unveiling of Footballer of the Year nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Sunday, 17 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Ghanafa.org<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-17<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/66208027.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmedarrives\" title=\"Ahmedarrives\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Mr Ahmad and other leading members of CAF arrived in Accra on Sunday<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513526414_639_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">CAF president Mr Ahmad has arrived in Accra for Monday&#8217;s unveiling of the final three-man shortlist for the 2017 African Footballer of the Year award in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ahmad and other leading members of  the Continental football governing body arrived in Accra on Sunday for the event which will be held at Movenpic Hotel in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The media event will see the CAF President officially announce names of the players who have made the final shortlist for the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>New official sponsors of the awards ceremony, AITEO will also attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven players were shortlisted for the flagship award for African football last month and the number will be pruned down to three.<\/p>\n<p>Bertrand Traore of Burkina Faso, Uganda goalkeeper Denis Onyango, Morocco\u2019s Karim El Ahmadi and Senegalese duo of Keita Balde and Sadio Mane were among those in the ten-man shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt playmaker Mohamed Salah, Guinean ace Naby Keita, Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Nigerian winger Victor Moses, Vincent Aboubakar of Cameroon and Algeria\u2019s Yacine Brahimi were also named in the first shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Votes were gathered from members of the CAF Technical and Development Committee, CAF Media Experts Panel and Independent Media and TV Consultants to form the 10-man shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>The second and final phase of the voting will involve Head Coaches or Technical Directors of the National Associations alongside ten members from the Independent Media and TV Consultants group.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, captains of the senior men\u2019s national teams of the affiliated National Associations would also take part in decision making process of the African Player of the Year and Player of the Year (Based in Africa).<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the award will be named at the AITEO CAF awards 2017 ceremony be held in Accra on 4th January 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 58 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() 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