Ghana ticks four out of the eight major award boxes for the 2010 Confederation of African Football (CAF) Awards.
Black Stars striker Asamoah Gyan makes the shortlist of five for the Africa Player of the Year after Caf today released the list. Andre Ayew and Kevin-Prince Boateng initially on the 10-man list drop out in the running for the award.
The list would be pruned to three on December 11 for the awards to honour best achievers in African Football for the Year 2010 in Cairo, Egypt on December 20.
According to Caf, the final nominations were arrived at by the Media, Technical and Football Committees of CAF taking into consideration the performance during the year under review, from January 2010 to November 2010.
Udinese attacker Kwadwo Asamoah is in the running for the most promising player with the Black Stars nominated for the national team award.
Ex-Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac has been selected for the coach of the year prize.
For the topmost awards, Player of the Year 2010 and African-based Player of the Year 2010, the respective winners would be decided by votes from the respective senior national teams’ Head Coaches or Technical Director of the 53 National Associations affiliated to CAF.
Other Presidential Awards will also be given during the ceremony.
Player of the Year
a) Didier Drogba b) Samuel Eto’o Fils c) Asamoah Gyan d) Salomon Kalou e) Seydou Keita
African-based Player of the Year
a) Alain Dioko b) Mohamed Nagui Gedo c) Ahmed Hassan
Most Promising Talent of the Year
a) Kwadwo Asamoah (Udinese and Ghana) b) Ryad Boudebouz (Sochaux and Algeria) c) Moussa Maazou (Bordeaux and Niger)
Women’s Footballer of the Year
a) Stella Mbachu (Nigeria) b) Perpetua Nkwocha (Sunnana SK and Nigeria) c) Ebere Orji (Nigeria U-20)
Club of the Year
a) CS Sfaxien (Tunisia) b) FUS Rabat (Morocco) c) TP Mazembe (DR Congo)
National team of the Year
a) Algeria b) Egypt c) Ghana
Women’s National team of the Year
a) Equatorial Guinea b) Nigeria senior team c) Nigeria U-20 women
Coach of the Year
a) LamineN'Diaye (TP Mazembe) b) Milovan Rajevac – (Former Ghana Coach) c) Hassan Shehata (Egypt)