CAF AWARDS 2022: Oshoala may pick record fifth African crown today

Barring any earthshaking upsets, the duo of Sadio Mane of Senegal and Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria would respectively be topped but once more as Africa’s Finest Males and Girls Footballer of the 12 months tonight in Morocco.

The 2022 version of the much-awaited annual CAF Awards Gala maintain tonight particularly in Rabat because the identities of the continent’s finest footballers and groups are unveiled .

Yesterday, the continental soccer ruling physique launched the highest three nominees for all of the ladies and men classes forward of tonight’s gala with each Oshoala and Mane being on the unique checklist.

Oshoala, the FC Barcelona girls’s striker, solely in 2019 grew to become the second participant ever to win the continental award 4 occasions to equal the file set by her compatriot Perpetual Nkwocha throughout her heyday. However she is being challenged for her fifth African crown by Cameroonian Ajara Nchout Njoya and new entrant Grace Chanda of Zambia.

However Oshoala is barely favoured above different contenders following imperious efficiency in Europe with Barcelona together with different scoring feats with the Catalan girls’s group within the season underneath evaluate.

In the meantime within the males’s class, Mane who received his maiden award as Africa Finest in 2019, will battle this time with compatriot and a brand new entrant on the checklist, Chelsea’s shot stopper Edouard Mendy in addition to two-time former winner Mohamed Salah of Egypt.

By the way, there isn’t a Nigerian curiosity in all the opposite classes after Tremendous Falcons’ striker Monday Reward and coach Randy Waldrum had been each omitted within the closing three shortlist for the ladies’s Younger Participant of the 12 months and ladies’s Coach of the 12 months respectively.

Ditto Rivers Angels of Port Harcourt who did not make the ultimate shortlist of three for the ladies’s Membership of the 12 months.

CAF AWARDS 2022: FINAL TOP 3 NOMINEES

Participant of the 12 months (Girls)

Ajara Nchout Njoya (Cameroon &Inter)

Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria & Barcelona)

Grace Chanda (Zambia & BIIK Kazygurt)

Participant of the 12 months (Males)

Edouard Mendy (Senegal & Chelsea)

Mohamed Salah (Egypt & Liverpool)

Sadio Mane (Senegal & Bayern Munich)

Interclub Participant of the 12 months (Girls)

Andile Dlamini (S.Africa & Sundowns)

Bambanani Mbanie (S.Africa& Sundowns)

Evelyn Badu (Ghana & Hasaacas Women/Alvaldsnes)

Interclub Participant of the 12 months (Males)

Achraf Dari (Morocco & Wydad )

Aliou Dieng (Mali & Al Ahly)

Mohamed El Shenawy (Egypt & Al Ahly)

Younger Participant of the 12 months (Girls)

Doris Boaduwaa (Ghana & Hasaacas Women)

Evelyn Badu (Ghana & Hasaacas Women/Alvaldsnes)

Yasmine Zouhir (Morocco & Saint-Etienne)

younger participant of the 12 months (males)

hannibal mejbri (tunisia &man united)

karim konate (civ & asec/rb salzburg)

pape matar sarr (senegal & tottenham )

coach of the 12 months (girls)

bruce mwape (zambia)

desiree ellis (south africa)

jerry tshabalala ( sundowns)

reynald pedros (morocco)

coach of the 12 months (males)

aliou cisse (senegal)

carlos queiroz (egypt)

walid regragui (wydad )

membership of the 12 months (girls)

as far (morocco)

hasaacas girls (ghana)

mamelodi sundowns (s. africa)

membership of the 12 months (males)

al ahly (egypt)

rs berkane (morocco)

wydad athletic membership (morocco)

nationwide group of the 12 months (males)

cameroon

egypt

senegal

aim of the 12 months

gabadinho mhango (malawi & pirates)

pape ousmane sakho (senegal & simba)

zouhair el moutaraji (morocco & wydad)