The African Football Confederation has officially announced the final list of the 2018 African Footballer of the Year award nominees, including Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and fellow player Sadio Mane, as well as Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. This is the second consecutive year the trio competes for the most important individual sports award on the African continent. Salah is on the finals list for the second time in his history and the second in a row, and successfully won the award in 2017. Senegalese El Hadji Diouf, Cameron’s Samuel Eto’o, and Ivorian Yaya Toure won the award for two consecutive years. If Mane wins this year’s award, he will be the second Senegalese to win the award in history after Diouf.

Source: Egypt Independent January 01, 2019 12:56 UTC