Meyiwa, Modise miss out on CAF awards

South African duo Portia Modise and Senzo Meyiwa miss final cut for CAF awards. The late Senzo Meyiwa and Banyana star Portia Modise both missed the final cut after being initially nominated in the CAF football awards. Meyiwa, who was tragically gunned down in October last year, was nominated as one of five players in line for the African Player of the Year award, for players based in Africa.

Portia Modise, who recently scored her 100th goal for Banyana Banyana, had also made the final five nominated for Africa’s Woman Player of the Year.

However, in CAF’s most recent list of nominees for the awards, which cuts all categories down to three possible winners, both Meyiwa and Modise were omitted in their respective categories, meaning that there will be no South African winners at next week’s continental awards evening.

The winners of the different awards will be announced at a Gala Awards evening in Lagos on Thursday, 8 January.

Nominees for all CAF awards:

African Player of the Year
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon and Borussia Dortmund)
Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria and Lille)
Yaya Toure (Cote d’Ivoire and Manchester City)

African Player of the Year – Based in Africa
Akram Djahnit (Algeria and ES Setif)
El Hedi Belamieri (Algeria and ES Setif)
Firmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo and AS Vita)

African Woman’s Player of the Year
Annette Ngo Ndom (Cameroon and Amazon Grimstad)
Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and River Angels)
Desire Oparanozie (Nigeria and Guingamp)

Youth Player of the Year
Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and River Angels)
Fabrice Ondoa (Cameroon and Barcelona)
Uchechi Sunday (Nigeria and River Angels)

Most Promising Talent
Clinton N’jie (Cameroon and Olympique Lyon)
Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon and Porto)
Yacine Brahimi (Algeria and Porto)

Coach of the Year
Florent Ibenge (DR Congo)
Kheireddine Madoui (ES Setif)
Vahid Halilhodžić (Former coach of Algeria)

National Team of the Year
Algeria
Libya
Nigeria

Woman’s National Team of the Year
Cameroon
Nigeria
Nigeria U-20

Club of the Year
Al Ahly (Egypt)
AS Vita (DR Congo)
ES Setif (Algeria)