{"id":8243,"date":"2022-07-13T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders"},"modified":"2022-07-13T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:29:43","slug":"mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders","title":{"rendered":"Mane, Salah among African Player of the Year contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span><b>Former Liverpool teammates Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are among 10 stars shortlisted for the 2022 African Player of the Year award, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Monday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the Covid pandemic, the name of the 2022 winner will be announced on 21 July at a ceremony in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah previously won the award in 2017 and 2018, while Man\u00e9 was honoured in 2019. The 30-year-old Senegalese, who left Liverpool for Bayern Munich last month, is a favourite for the 2022 award.<\/p>\n<p>He was a key figure at the Africa Cup of Nations, leading Senegal to a historic first-ever win over Salah&#8217;s Egypt in the final. He also helped his country qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, again beating the Pharaohs.<\/p>\n<p>With the Reds, the Senegalese and the Egyptian won the English Cup, the League Cup and played in the Champions League final, which they lost to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders for the 2022 African Player of the Year award include Riyad Mahrez, the Algerian captain and Manchester City winger who won the award in 2016. Senegal and Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy will attempt to become the first goalkeeper to lift the trophy since Morocco&#8217;s Ezzaki Badou in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The African Player of the Year is chosen by the captains and coaches of the African national teams, members of the CAF technical committee and some media.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining eight players nominated for the African Player of the Year award are:<\/p>\n<p>Riyad Mahrez (Algeria, Manchester City\/ENG)<\/p>\n<p>Karl Toko Ekambi (Cameroon, Lyon\/FRA)<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Aboubacar (Cameroon, Al Nassr\/KSA)<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9bastien Haller (Ivory Coast, Borussia Dortmund\/GER)<\/p>\n<p>Naby Keita (Guinea, Liverpool\/EGY)<\/p>\n<p>Achraf Hakimi (Morocco, Paris Saint-Germain\/FRA)<\/p>\n<p>Edouard Mendy (Senegal, Chelsea\/ENG)<\/p>\n<p>Kalidou Koulibaly (Senegal, Napoli\/ITA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\">Eritrea<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. Former Liverpool teammates Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are among 10 stars shortlisted for the 2022 African Player of the Year award, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Monday. After the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the Covid pandemic, the name of the 2022 winner will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[242,243,263,265,233,514,703],"class_list":["post-8243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eritrea","tag-african-football","tag-caf","tag-eritrea","tag-mohammed-salah","tag-saido-mane"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mane, Salah among African Player of the Year contenders - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Liverpool teammates Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are among 10 stars shortlisted for the 2022 African Player of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mane, Salah among African Player of the Year contenders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Liverpool teammates Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are among 10 stars shortlisted for the 2022 African Player of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eritrea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-13T15:20:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-13T15:29:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_9-62cee4cce028b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mane, Salah among African Player of the Year contenders\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-13T15:20:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-13T15:29:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_9-62cee4cce028b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eritrea\",\"African Football\",\"CAF\",\"Eritrea\",\"Mohammed Salah\",\"Saido Mane\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/mane-salah-among-african-player-of-the-year-contenders\",\"name\":\"Mane, Salah among African Player of the Year contenders - 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