African football governing body, Confederation of African Football has pruned the nominees of the CAF Player of the Year to ten.
CAF had unveiled a list of 30 players two weeks ago with majority of them making it on the back of a good AFCON.
With twenty players now off the list, the frontrunners are Sadio Mane, Mohammed Salah and Riyad Mahrez.
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Others are Senegal’s Kalidou Koulibaly, AFCON top scorer, Vincent Aboubakar, Liverpool’s Naby Keita and Cameroon’s Karl Toko-Ekambi.
Sebastian Haller, Edouard Mendy, and Achraf Hakimi complete the list.
The award, to be held on the 21st of July in Rabat, Morocco, will be decided by a technical committee of national team coaches, captains journalists and members of CAF’s technical committee.
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