CAF Announce Three-Man Shortlist For Prestigious Award

The Confederation of African Football has reported the three-man waitlist for the 2018 African Player of the Year Award. 

In a rehash of a year ago's waitlist, ruling CAF African Footballer of the Year Mohamed Salah has been named nearby his Liverpool partner Sadio Mane and Arsenal forward Pierr-Emerick Aubameyang. 

As indicated by Cafonline, Gabonese charm Aubameyang has made it into the main three of the most lofty African football singular honor for a fifth time in succession, approaching the record set by Ivorian legend Yaya Toure and Ghanaian midfield maestro Michael Essien. 

Toure, who has won the CAF Player of the Year grant multiple times, accomplished the accomplishment of seeming multiple times in a three man waitlist from 2011 to 2015 while Essien did it from 2005 to 2009. 

Aubameyang has just won the pined for honor just once. 

In the interim, Salah has made the three man waitlist just the second time in the wake of winning the honor last term, turning into the main Egyptian to do as such since 1992. 

Just Senegalese El Hadji Diouf (2001 and 2002), Samuel Eto'o of Cameroon (2003 and 2004) and Toure (2011 and 2012) have won the honor for two progressive years. 

Mane has made the main three waitlist for a third time in his profession, coming third in 2016 and second in 2017. He could turn into the second Senegalese to win the honor after Diouf. 

The victor will be revealed at the Awards Ceremony on 8 January 2019 in Dakar, Senegal.