Manchester City midfielder YayaToure has been named the
African Player of the Year for a second time.
Toure beat fellow Ivory Coast star and former Chelsea
striker Didier Drogba into second place with former Arsenal midfielder Alex
Song third. Continue after the break...
Recent Africa Player of the Year winners
2006 Didier Drogba
2007 Frederic Kanoute
2008 Emmanuel Adebayor
2009 Didier Drogba
2010 Samuel Eto'o
2011 Yaya Toure
2012 Yaya Toure
He won the 2012 poll in a vote of head coaches or technical
directors of countries affiliated to the Confederation of African Football.
Ex-Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o holds the most titles,
having won four times.
African Nations Cup winners Zambia were named team of the
year with their coach Herve Renard named coach of the year.
Song currently plays for Barcelona while Drogba signed for
Shanghai Shenhua in May.
Toure, who won the award last year, is part of the Ivory
Coast team heading to the Africa Cup of Nations that starts in South Africa
next month.
was he really d best. I had expected didier drogba to meet this
ReplyDeleteDrogba is d african footballer of d year and not Toure simple.
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