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The shortlists for the 2018 Confederation of African Football awards were announced on Friday:<\/p>\n
Player of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Alex Iwobi (Nigeria, Arsenal\/ENG), Andre Onana (Cameroon, Ajax\/NED), Anis Badri (Tunisia, Esperance), Denis Onyango (Uganda, Mamelodi Sundowns\/RSA), Mehdi Benatia (Morocco, Juventus\/ITA), Mohamed Salah (Egypt, Liverpool\/ENG), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon,Arsenal\/ENG), Riyad Mahrez (Algeria, Manchester City\/ENG), Sadio Mane (Senegal, Liverpool\/ENG), Walid Soliman (Egypt, Al Ahly)<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Player of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Abdulai Mukarama (Ghana), Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria), Bassira Toure (Mali), Chrestinah Kgatlana (South Africa), Elizabeth Addo (Ghana), Francisca Ordega (Nigeria), Gabrielle Onguene (Cameroon), Janine van Wyk (South Africa), Onome Ebi (Nigeria), Raissa Feudjio (Cameroon), Tabitha Chawinga (Malawi)<\/p>\n Youth Player of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Franck Kessie (Ivory Coast), Wilfred Ndidi (Nigeria)<\/p>\n Coach of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Aliou Cisse (Senegal), Herve Renard (Morocco), Moine Chaabani (Esperance\/TUN)<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Coach of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Desiree Ellis (South Africa), Joseph Ndoko (Cameroon), Thomas Dennerby (Nigeria)<\/p>\n National Team of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Madagascar, Mauritania, Uganda<\/p>\n Women\u2019s National Team of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The shortlists for the 2018 Confederation of African Football awards were announced on Friday: Player of the Year Alex Iwobi (Nigeria, Arsenal\/ENG), Andre Onana (Cameroon, Ajax\/NED), Anis Badri (Tunisia, Esperance), Denis Onyango (Uganda, Mamelodi Sundowns\/RSA), Mehdi Benatia (Morocco, Juventus\/ITA), Mohamed Salah (Egypt, Liverpool\/ENG), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon,Arsenal\/ENG), Riyad Mahrez (Algeria, Manchester City\/ENG), Sadio Mane (Senegal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2081,2085,2086,933],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-caf-awards","tag-iwobi","tag-oshoala","tag-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}