The 2015 Glo CAF Awards took place tonight at the International Conference Center in Abuja and below are the full list of 2015 Glo CAF Awards Winners (African Players).
2015 Glo CAF Awards Winners
Club of the Year - TP Mazembe
Fair Play Award - Allez Casa (Senegal Supporters group)
Women's National Team Of The Year - Cameroon
Men's National Team Of The Year -Cote D'Ivoire
Continue to see the rest plus some photos from the event....
Youth Player Of The Year- Victor Osimhen
Most Promising Talent -Oghenekaro Etebo
Coach of The Year - Havre Renard
Women's National Team Of The Year - Cameroon
Woman player of the year - Gabrielle Enganamouit
Referee Of The Year - Ameshinda Bakari Wa Gambia Papa Gassama
African Player Of The Year based in Africa-Mbwana Samatta
Football Leader Of The Year - Abdiqani Said Arab Of Somalia
African Player Of The Year -Pierre Emerick Aubameyang
Africa will on Thursday honour its illustrious sons and daughters who
have distinguished themselves across the world, playing or administering
football in the last one year at the 2015 Glo CAF Awards.
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| Glo CAF Awards 2015 |
The
annual award, sponsored by next generation telecommunication network,
Globacom, will be a gathering of top football celebrities and government
officials across Africa at the International Conference Centre in the
city of Abuja, Nigeria.
Top sports administrators and government
functionaries from different parts of the world are in Abuja for the
ceremony, which will be presided over by the acting President of FIFA
and President of the Confederation of African Football, Issa Hayatou.
Over
100 pressmen from across the globe are covering the 2015 GLO-CAF
Awards, an annual soccer event which celebrates the best of football
players of African extraction.
About two weeks ago, CAF pruned down the final list of African Player of the Year to three players .
In the African Player of the Year Award category, the top three players are
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and Borrussia Dortmund of Germany;
four-time African Player of the Year, Yaya Toure of Cote d’Ivoire and Manchester City; and
Andrew Ayew of Ghana and Swansea City FC.
Mbwana
Aly Samatta of Tanzania and TP Mazembe, Baghdad Bounedjah of Algeria
and Etoile du Sahel and Robert Kidiaba of Democratic Republic of Congo
and TP Mazembe are the top three nominees in the Africa-based ‘Player of
the Year’ Award.
The list was prepared through a vigorous
selection process by the Technical, Football and Media Committees of
CAF, taking into account the performance of the players for their
national teams as well as clubs from January to November of each year.
The
top acts expected to entertain guests and VIPs at the event include
singing sensation, Salif Keita, an afro-pop singer cum songwriter from
Mali, who is rated highly because of his reputation as the “Golden Voice
of Africa”; Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a South African male choral group
that sings in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. Awilo
Longomba, a Congolese musician who was a drummer in Viva la Musica,
Stukas, Nouvelle Generation, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr popularly
known by his stage name Shatta Wale, a Ghanaian born producer and
reggae-dancehall musician.
Ahmed Soultan, a Moroccan singer
artist, considered as one of the leaders of the “Nayda” (new urban
Moroccan scene) and Sammie Leigh Bush Jr. known professionally by the
mononym Sammie, an American R&B singer best known for his hit, “I
Like It”.
Some of the biggest stars in Nigeria have been lined up to also light up the evening.
They
include the wave-making hip-hop super star, Dapo Oyebanji, a
multi-talented and award Nigerian songwriter and performer, Mavin
records’ prince and princess, Korede Bello and Hadiza Blell, popularly
known as Di’ja, alternative soul singer, Bez Idakula, one of Nigeria’s
most prominent female singers, Omawumi, Ego ‘sweet voice’ Ogbaro and
master guitarist and legendary King of Juju Music, Sunny Ade.
All of these top musicians cum entertainers are also Globacom Ambassadors.
All
roads lead to the International Conference Centre, Abuja where the new
King of African football will be crowned tonight, the organisers said in
a statement.
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