THE BBC AFRICAN FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR 2013

The BBC African Footballer of the Year is an annual
award given to the best African footballer of the year as
voted by the BBC radio listeners. Voting is done via SMS
and online.
To view the list of past winners click here
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_African_Footballer_of_the_Year
The nominees for this year's award were:
The five-man list:
John Mikel Obi Nigeria
Pierre-Emerick Gabon
Victor Moses Nigeria
Jonathan Pitroipa Burkina Faso
Yaya Toure Ivory Coast.
And the WINNER is Yaya TOURE of IVORY COAST!!!!
In case you don't know; Toure is widely recognised as one of the finest midfielders of his generation. He is a general on the pitch who commands
respect from every quarter. He joined his current club Manchester City in 2010 and helped them win the English Premier League in 2012 - their first league title for 44 years as well as the FA Cup and the Community Shield.
And Now many will say how did he get to win the award? Let's look at his performance in the year 2013!
2013/14 English Premier League
GAMES GOALS ASSISTS SHOTS
19. 10. 3. 34
Get more details here www.whoscored.com/Players/14053
Compared to his counterparts in the same league division name
Mikel Obi
2013/14 English Premier League
GAMES GOALS ASSISTS SHOTS
14. 1. 1. 3
Victor moses who was mikel's teammate for the 2012/2013 season
2013/14 English Premier League
GAMES GOALS ASSISTS SHOTS
13. 1. 0. 10
Stats courtesy of www.espnfc.com
The stats already clarifies any iota of doubt that may exist in the minds of the doubting thomases who seem to believe otherwise.
Even though it is believed that CAF of recent have favoured the Francophone African nations/players and BBC because it is British have always nominated and thus awarded English speaking players.
However, the winner of this year's award hails from a francophone African Nation is coincidentally the 5th pure Francophone player to follow the likes of el-hadji Diouf, Didier Drogba, Christopher Katongo, Patrick Mboma etc.
Aside from Nigeria who has won the BBC African Footballer of the Year Award 5 times and Ghana 4 times, the loads of other players who have won this award do not hail from Anglophone African Countries.
It is however clear and glaring that Yaya Toure was and is a worthy winner of this prestigious Award!!
We are all set and ready for the GLO-CAF Awards Night which holds on the 9th of January To see if Yaya will add another laurel to himself and follow the path of players who have won both Awards the same Year! Will Yaya Toure make it a double?? Watch out for the "Etihad Machinery" called "Yaya Toure"

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