CAF snubs Asamoah Gyan in final shortlist for African Best Player

Confederations of African Football (CAF) has announced the final three-man shortlist for the 2013 Africa Footballer of the Year award, with Ghana skipper Asamoah Gyan excluded from the list.

But Ghana youngster Ebenezer Assifuah is in the hunt for the Young Player of the Year award.

The youngster will represent Ghana at the awards night for his heroic role he played as the top scorer at the U20 World Cup in Turkey in the summer.

The Ivorian pair of Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba made the final three for a second successive year and will be joined by John Obi Mikel of Nigeria.

The winner will be announced on the 9th of January 2014 at the GLO-CAF Awards Gala to be held in Lagos Nigeria.

In the African Player of the year ( based in Africa) category the winner will be selected from Egyptians Ahmed Fathy and Mohamed Abou Trika with Nigerian Sunday Mba also in contention. The winner will also be announced at the Awards Gala in Lagos on the same night.

Yaya Toure is the reigning African Footballer of the Year while Mohamed Abou Trika is the current African player based in Africa.

The other categories are as following:

National Team of the Year

Burkina Faso

Ethiopia

Nigeria

Youth National team of the Year

Nigeria U 17

Club of the Year

Al Ahly

CS Sfaxien

Orlando Pirates

Fair Play Award

Nigerian Supporter

Coach of the Year

Manu Garba

Stephen Keshi

Paul Put

Most Promising Talent

Ebenezer Assifuah

Saleh Gomaa

Kelechi Iheanacho

Referee Award

Alioum Neant

Haimoudi Djamel

Papa Bakary Gassama

Legend Award

Bruno Metsu

Mehdi Faria

Isaac Darko

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