2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP D - DAY 12 - Uganda vs Mali 1:1

Day 12 - 24th match - Mali and Uganda knocked out Africa Cup

25 Jan 2017
2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP C - DAY 11 - Morocco VS Ivory Coast 1:0

Day 11 - 21st match - Morocco reach quarter-finals

24 Jan 2017
2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP C - DAY 11 - Togo vs Congo DR 1:3

Day 11 - 22nd match - Congo DR reach quarter-finals

24 Jan 2017
National Team - Algeria - Coach - Leekens quits after exit

Coach Georges Leekens quits after Nations Cup elimination.

24 Jan 2017
2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP B - DAY 10 - Senegal VS Algeria 2:2

Day 10 - 19th match - Algeria exit without a win

23 Jan 2017
2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP B - DAY 10 - Zimbabwe VS Tunisia 2:4

Day 10 - 20th match - Tunisia reach quarter-finals

23 Jan 2017
2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP A - DAY 09 - Cameroon VS Gabon 0:0

Day 09 - 17th match - Gabon limp out as Cameroon progress

22 Jan 2017
2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP A - DAY 09 - Guinea-Bissau VS Burkina Faso 0:2

Day 09 - 18th match - Burkina Faso beat Guinea-Bissau to win group

22 Jan 2017
2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP D - DAY 08 - Ghana VS Mali 1:0

Day 08 - 15th match - Ghana beat Mali

21 Jan 2017
2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP D - DAY 08 - Egypt VS Uganda 1:0

Day 08 - 16th match - Egypt beat Uganda

21 Jan 2017

PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2016 - Riyad Mahrez is named Africa's best player

Riyad Mahrez

 

Leicester forward Riyad Mahrez has won the Confederation of African Football's player of the year award.

The 25-year-old Algerian, who helped Leicester to the Premier League title, is also the PFA Player of the Year and BBC African Footballer of the Year.

Borussia Dortmund's Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was second and Senegal and Liverpool striker Sadio Mane came third.

"It's never easy to win a big award like that," Mahrez said.

"I'm very happy to win because obviously it was against two big players.

"What happened last season was amazing, we knew it wasn't going to happen again - and it won't happen again I think, for a small team like Leicester," added the first Algerian and North African to win the prestigious individual honour since its inception by Caf in 1992.

Arsenal and Nigeria forward Alex Iwobi, 20, won the young player award.

Countryman and Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho, 20, won the most promising talent award.

South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns goalkeeper Denis Onyango, 31, was named Africa-based player of the year.

Nigeria forward Asisat Oshoala, 22, was named female player of the year.

It was Oshoala's second title after winning in 2014 in Lagos. 

And it was double delight for her as the Super Falcons were adjudged Women's National Team of the Year following their record-extending eighth title at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon in December 2016.

Two more awards came the way of Sundowns, who were named club of the year with Pitso Mosimane winning coach of the year.

Uganda's qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations after a 39-year wait was recognised with the national Team of the year award.

Gambian official Bakary Papa Gassama was named referee of the year for the third time in a row.

Manuel Lopes Nascimento, president of Guinea Bissau Football Federation was named football leader of the year - his country qualified for their first major continental championship by reaching the Nations Cup in Gabon.

Ivorian striker Laurent Pokou, who died in November, was post-humously recognised with the African Legend award, together with Cameroonian Emilienne Mbango, one of the pioneers of women's football on the continent.

The Platinium Award went to President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari.

 

 

9 Jan 2017
(BBC Sport UK)

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