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How Enyeama lost Caf honor to Toure

How Enyeama lost Caf honor to Toure

The voting example for the 2014 African Footballer of the Year has uncovered that Vincent Enyeama completed third behind Yaya Toure and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Ivory Drift and Gabon separately.

The 32-year-old LOSC Lille goalkeeper had been tipped as the principle challenger to Toure in the Caf grant preceding its declaration of champs in Lagos on Thursday night.

Anyhow rather it was the Nigerian chief and goalkeeper, who completed in third place and 70 focuses behind Yaya Toure, who has now won the African Footballer of the Year recompense for a record fourth progressive time.

The voting example discharged by Caf demonstrates that Toure got 175 focuses while 120 went to Aubameyang and Enyeama got 105. Ghana skipper, Asamoah Gyan and Nigerian winger, Ahmed Musa, who made the main five got 94 and 78 focuses separately from the mentors and specialized executives who voted.

Votes in favor of Enyeama and Musa

Interestingly, numerous savants and football aficionados may think that it stunning that just two mentors or specialized chiefs from Guinea and Swaziland considered Enyeama fit to be the 2014 African Footballer of the Year. Be that as it may, 13 of the individuals who voted including the Nigerian mentor or specialized chief accepts Enyeama was second best a year ago.

Be that as it may CSKA winger, Musa, however got lesser number of focuses to Enyeama's aggregate, three of the voters picked him as Africa's best for as long as year. The mentors or specialized executive of Cape Verde, Nigeria and Tanzania voted in favor of Musa as Africa Footballer of the Year.

How Yaya Toure rose

Out of the 39 head mentors or specialized chiefs who voted, 27 picked the Ivorian midfielder as the African Footballer of the Year. It was overpowering. Aubameyang who completed second had only two mentors/specialized executives from his nation, Gabon and Botswana providing for him full checks. Ghana's Gyan, who completed in fourth got the support of three mentors or specialized executives from his nation, Sao Tome and Principe and Togo.

Just Botswana, Burundi, Nigeria and Zambia did not vote Toure as a main two contender for the African Footballer of the Year.

A year ago Chelsea midfielder, John Obi Mikel, approached in second place behind Toure. Enyeama on photograph offering online networking gateway, Instagram has officially thumbed up the Ivorian on his triumph.

"Congrats to Yaya Toure for being the 2014 African Footballer of the Year. #bravoyaya," he composed.

The race for the 2015 African Footballer of the Year had started and the Africa Container of Countries is one of the spot to begin off yet Enyeama, Musa and their comrades will be lost from that competition which commences in Tropical Guinea on January 17.

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