{"id":16800,"date":"2018-12-14T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=16800"},"modified":"2018-12-14T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:50:15","slug":"full-list-2018-caf-awards-mukarama-makes-cut-thomas-partey-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/full-list-2018-caf-awards-mukarama-makes-cut-thomas-partey-axed\/","title":{"rendered":"Full List of 2018 CAF Awards: Mukarama makes the cut, Thomas Partey axed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The confederation of African football have released their revised shortlists for the various categories of the 2018 awards.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CAF Technical and development committee voted and shorlisted the nominees, and\u00a0he final phase will involve votes from CAF Media Experts, Legends, Coaches of the quarter-finalists of the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup, and Coaches &amp; Captains of the 54 Member Associations.<\/p>\n<p>The Awards Gala, to honour footballers and officials who distinguished themselves during the year under review, will be held on Tuesday, 8 January 2019 in Dakar, Senegal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Z5A0dWn5V5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/south-africa-interested-hosting-2019-acon\/\">South Africa interested in hosting the 2019 ACON<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;South Africa interested in hosting the 2019 ACON&#8221; &#8212; Sahara Football\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/south-africa-interested-hosting-2019-acon\/embed\/#?secret=Rk7q2V1X4Q#?secret=Z5A0dWn5V5\" data-secret=\"Z5A0dWn5V5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>African Player of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Alex Iwobi (Nigeria &amp; Arsenal)<\/li>\n<li>Andre Onana (Cameroon &amp; Ajax)<\/li>\n<li>Anis Badri (Tunisia &amp; Esperance)<\/li>\n<li>Denis Onyango (Uganda &amp; Mamelodi Sundowns)<\/li>\n<li>Mehdi Benatia (Morocco &amp; Juventus)<\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Salah (Egypt &amp; Liverpool)<\/li>\n<li>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon &amp; Arsenal)<\/li>\n<li>Riyad Mahrez (Algeria &amp; Manchester City)<\/li>\n<li>Sadio Mane (Senegal &amp; Liverpool)<\/li>\n<li>Walid Soliman (Egypt &amp; Ahly)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Player of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Abdulai Mukarama (Ghana &amp; Northern Ladies)<\/li>\n<li>Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria &amp; Dilian Quanjian)<\/li>\n<li>Bassira Toure (Mali &amp; AS Mande)<\/li>\n<li>Chrestinah Thembi Kgatlana (South Africa &amp; Houston Dash)<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Addo (Ghana &amp; Seattle Reign)<\/li>\n<li>Francisca Ordega (Nigeria &amp; Washington Spirit)<\/li>\n<li>Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene (Cameroon &amp; CSKA Moskow)<\/li>\n<li>Janine Van Wyk (South Africa &amp; Houston Dash)<\/li>\n<li>Onome Ebi (Nigeria &amp; Hekan Huisanhang)<\/li>\n<li>Raissa Feudjio (Cameroon &amp; Aland United)<\/li>\n<li>Tabitha Chawinga (Malawi &amp; Jiangsu Suning)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Youth Player of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Achraf Hakimi (Morocco &amp; Borussia Dortmunmd)<\/li>\n<li>Franck Kessie (Cote d\u2019Ivoire &amp; AC Milan)<\/li>\n<li>Wilfred Ndidi (Nigeria &amp; Leicester City)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Coach of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Aliou Cisse (Senegal)<\/li>\n<li>Herve Renard (Morocco)<\/li>\n<li>Moine Chaabani (Esperance)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Coach of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Desiree Ellis (South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Brian Ndoko (Cameroon)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Dennerby (Nigeria)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s National Team of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Madagascar<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Uganda<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s National Team of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>South Africa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The confederation of African football have released their revised shortlists for the various categories of the 2018 awards.\u00a0 The CAF Technical and development committee voted and shorlisted the nominees, and\u00a0he final phase will involve votes from CAF Media Experts, Legends, Coaches of the quarter-finalists of the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup, and Coaches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8417],"tags":[8496,652,8043],"class_list":{"0":"post-16800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-african-football","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-abdulai-mukarama","10":"tag-caf-awards","11":"tag-thomas-partey"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cafawards.jpg?fit=560%2C340&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4mY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16410,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/thomas-partey-mukarama-nominated-caf-awards\/","url_meta":{"origin":16800,"position":0},"title":"Thomas Partey And Mukarama Nominated For CAF Awards","author":"Selasi Fiawoyi","date":"November 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Ghanaian duo Thomas Partey and Mukarama Abdulai have both been nominated for CAF's top award in January next year. 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