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  • 2016 Glo-Caf Awards: Marhez wins African footballer of the year

    2016 Glo-Caf Awards: Marhez wins African footballer of the year

    Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez was named the best African footballer of the year at the 2016 Glo-Caf Awards held in Abuja on Thursday.

    The 25-year-old Algerian, who inspired Leicester to the Premier League title, is already the PFA Player of the Year and BBC African Footballer of the Year was picked ahead of  Borussia Dortmund’s Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang  and Senegal and Liverpool striker Sadio Mane who was third.

    Twenty-five  year old Mahrez  began his career as a youth player for French club AAS Sarcelles. He turned professional in 2009 with Quimper, where he played for only one season before moving to Le Havre, spending a total of three years with them, initially playing for their reserve team and then becoming a first-team regular.

    In January 2014, Mahrez signed for English side Leicester City, helping them win the Football League Championship and promotion to the Premier League at the end of his first season. In the 2015–16 season he was the Algerian Footballer of the Year, the PFA Players’ Player of the Year, and was a member of the Premier League PFA Team of the Year as he helped Leicester City win the Premier League.

     

    Mahrez made his international debut for Algeria in 2014 and represented them at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

     

    Mahrez who  dedicated his award to his team mates, country  and family polled 361 votes  while Aubamyang earned 331 votes. Mane was a distant third  on 186 votes.

     

     

     

     

     

    **African Footballer of the Year Nominees

     

    Pierre Emerick Aubameyang [ Gabon& Borrusia Dortmund} 1st Runner-Up

     

    Riyahd Marhez [ Algeria& Leicester City]

     

    Sadio Mane [ Senegal & Liverpool]

  • Glo -Caf Awards: Sundowns wins Club of the Year

    Nominees

    TP Mezembe(Dr.Congo)

    Zesco United(Zambia)

    Mamelodi Sundowns(South Africa)

  • 2016 GLO-CAF Awards hold today

    The Glo- CAF awards holds today in the Nations’s Capital city

    of Abuja, and the question on the lips of all football loving

    Africans is: who wears the crown?

    The last three men standing include the incumbent, Gabonese,

    Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Borussia Dortmund, Riyad Mahrez,

    the Leicester City of England and Algeria player and Senegal

    and Liverpool midfielder, Sadio Mane.

    The undisputed king of football in Africa for 2016 will emerge

    tonight at the International Conference Centre, Abuja where

    the Confederation of African Football and West Africa’s

    leading Telecommunication Company, Globacom hosts the Silver

    edition of Glo-Caf Awards.

    Abuja is already agog with activities leading to the Awards

    gala. Top Sports Administrators, Special guests and Government

    functionaries from different parts of Africa and beyond have

    converged in Abuja for the ceremony.

    The President of Confederation of African Football, Mr. Isa

    Hayatou and his delegation have already arrived Abuja for the

    event which will be covered by global media. All the three top

    nominees for African player of the year award have already

    confirmed their attendance. Similarly, all the nominees in

    other categories are delighted to be rated among the best

    footballers in the continent.

    An annual event, the Glo-CAF Awards celebrates African

    footballers, coaches and administrators who have distinguished

    themselves in the game either on the African Continent, or

    abroad.

    About two weeks ago, CAF pruned down the final list to three

    players for the awards.

    The categories also include African Player of The Year (Based

    in Africa), National Team of The Year, Club of The Year, and

    Coach of The Year.

    Other categories are Women’s National Team of The Year,

    Women’s Footballer of The Year, Most Promising Talent, Referee

    of The Year, Legend of The year, Fair Play Award, Platinum

    Award (which has only one nominee), and Africa Finest XI.

    Globacom has been sponsoring the Glo- CAF Awards since 2005

  • Arsenal stop Iwobi from Glo-CAF award

    Arsenal stop Iwobi from Glo-CAF award

    Officials of English Premier League (EPL) side, Arsenal, have stopped Super Eagles attacking midfielder, Alex Iwobi, from attending Thursday’s Glo-CAF Player of the Year awards in Abuja because of club commitment.

    The 20-year-old is listed for the Young Player of the Year award alongside Eric Ayiah (Ghana) and Franck Kessie (Cote d’Ivoire).

    “Alex (Iwobi) is not coming for the CAF award tomorrow,” the player’s uncle, Emmanuel Okocha, told allnigeriasoccer.com.

  • RMD,  Mimi Fawaz to host Glo Caf Awards

     
    Sports journalist, premium show host and presenter of Sports 360 on Vox Africa, Mimi Fawaz and Nollywood legend, Richard  Mofe-Damijo (RMD) have been confirmed as the official comperes of the 2016 Glo-Caf Awards.
     
    A graduate of City University of London, Mimi who is half-Nigerian (her mother is from Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria) and half-Lebanese,  has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV Television networks.
    Described as the ‘driving force behind UK’s first original African football show’, Mimi has successfully carved a niche for herself in a field dominated by men.
    Mimi is delighted by the opportunity extended to her to host the show and has promised Africa and the rest of the world a spectacular delivery. 
     
    Popularly known as RMD, Richard Mofe-Damijo was born July 6, 1961. He is a Nigerian actor and politician. He was the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Delta State, Nigeria between 2009 and 2015 . Mofe-Damijo who was born in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria, attended Midwest College, Warri and Anglican Grammar School and was a member of the Drama Club. He enrolled into the University of Benin where he studied Theatre Arts.
     
    A lawyer, politician and journalist,  RMD has featured in several top-notch soaps and films such as Ripples, Out of Bounds, Three Wise Men, Oloibiri and Hush. A multiple award winner, RMD in 2005, won the Best Actor in a Leading Role at the maiden edition of the African Movie Academy Awards. He is the face of Globacom’s powerful television commercials which celebrated the company’s ground-breaking launch of Nigeria’s first nationwide mobile 4G LTE network. 
     
    Mimi Fawaz and Richard Mofe-Damijo will complement the glamorous event  known as the Oscars of African football and scheduled for the night on 5th January, 2017 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
  • Abuja to host 2016 Glo-CAF Awards

    Abuja to host 2016 Glo-CAF Awards

    The capital city of Nigeria, Abuja, will again host the 2016 Gala event of the prestigious Glo-CAF Awards on Thursday, January 5, 2017 at the International Conference Centre (ICC), the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed.

    Abuja is hosting the awards for the third time, having hosted the inaugural edition in 2005 and the 2015 edition.

    In a press statement, Africa’s highest football body, the CAF, said: “the 2016 Glo-CAF Awards will be held in the city of Abuja, Nigeria and the new African Footballer of the Year, the greatest African football legends and 15 winners in other categories will be unveiled during the Gala night.”

    Other categories include African Player of The Year (Based in Africa), National Team of The Year, Club of The Year and Coach of The Year.

    Also to be unveiled are Most Promising Talent, Women’s National Team of The Year, Woman Player of The Year, Referee of The Year, African Legend, CAF Fair Play Award, Platinum Award – which is usually reserved for the President of the host country, Africa Finest XI and Youth Player of The Year.

    Gabonese International and Borussia Dortmund of Germany winger, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon is the current African champion, having won the last edition while the 2015 African Player of the Year – Based in Africa- is Mbwana Ally Samatta of Tanzania.

    The annual award sponsored by Nigerian telecommunication giant, Globacom is expected to congregate top football celebrities and government officials across Africa, the statement said.

    Since 2005 when Globacom took over the sponsorship, the awards gala has been held in several cities across Africa.  Accra, Ghana hosted the 2006 edition, while the event moved to Lome, Togo, in 2007. Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, Lagos, hosted the event in 2008 before it moved back to Accra in 2009. The 2010 edition of the award took place in Cairo, Egypt, while Accra hosted the event back-to-back  in 2011 and 2012. Lagos again hosted the 2013 and 2014 editions.

  • African music stars add verve to Glo-CAF awards African music stars add verve to Glo-CAF awards

    African music stars add verve to Glo-CAF awards African music stars add verve to Glo-CAF awards

    It was a gathering of the who-is-who in the football business, but music took a center stage, giving the ceremony the thrills befitting of a glamorous continental event.

    Indeed, the stars made the gala night of the 2015 Glo-CAF Awards an experience of a life-time for the guests who gathered from all over the continent to see the best Player in Africa in 2015 crowned at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, last Thursday.

    The show kicked off with an exciting rendition of the Nigerian national anthem by velvet-voiced Ego Ogbaru, backed by master guitarist, King Sunny Ade and alternative soul maestro, Bez.

    The first main act of the evening was a fusion of Ghana’s sensational Shatta Wale and Nigeria’s Korede Bello which gave the gala a winning start. A collabo between Black Mambazo and Ego gave the event a phonic acapella that aided digestion of the sumptuous meal served at the ball.

    After the presentation of a set of awards, Morocco’s Ahmed Soultan teamed up with Di’ja Blell from Nigeria to heighten the musical excitement and this was later followed by the electrifying performance of Bez and King Sunny Ade in a jazzy rendition of “Stupid song.”

    The musical collaborations continued with the Afro pop performance by the legendary Salif Keita from Mali supported by Nigeria’s Omawumi Megbele in an invocation to Africa, “Africa o!” Then followed the duo of Kach and D’banj who pushed the fun higher by performing “Top of the World” and his brand new song which he premiered at the show, ‘Emergency’. It is an afro pop song that is bound to rule the airwaves. Ageless Awilo Longomba and Flavour later took the event to its climax.

    The exquisite event was brought to a musical wrap with the rendition of the Globacom new anthem performed by most of the artistes, accompanied by a parade of all the winners on stage to demonstrate the oneness canvassed by the theme.

    Guests expressed happiness and satisfaction with the show which they described as world-class in scope, dimension and attendance.

    A sports journalist, Mr. Segun Ogunjimi popularly called “Obey Ibadan” marveled at the beautiful fusion of music and football across the African continent and the harmonious way the performances were combined.

    Speaking earlier at the green carpet, the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Dr. Amaju Pinnick, commended Globacom for hosting the Glo-CAF Awards again in Abuja. He said it afforded guests the opportunity to witness firsthand the beauty of Nigeria’s capital city, thus boosting tourism in the country.

    Similarly, Senator and former minister, Sanusi Dagash, said Globacom’s Chairman, Dr Mike Adenuga Jr., had not only supported sports in the country but had also helped in putting Nigeria on the developmental pedestal. He noted that Globacom’s Glo 1 international submarine cable was a feat capable of providing much needed internet bandwidth for economic prosperity in West Africa.

     

  • FIFA President to attend Glo CAF Awards gala

    FIFA President to attend Glo CAF Awards gala

    All is now set for the 2015 Glo-CAF Awards scheduled to hold at the International Conference Centre, Abuja on Thursday, 7thJanuary, 2016.

    Among the dignitaries who will attend the event is the Acting President of FIFA and CAF President, Alhaji Issa Hayatou who will lead a delegation of FIFA and CAF executives to the awards gala.

    The Glo-CAF awards are the most prestigious in Africa conferred on outstanding players, coaches, supporters and administrators by the continent’s highest football authority and bankrolled by next generation network and the continents leading indigenous telecoms operator, Globacom.

    Winners in the different award categories  including African Player of the Year and African Player of the Year (Based in Africa), National Team of the Year, Club of the Year, and Coach of the Year will be unveiled at the event

    Other categories are Women’s National Team of the Year, Women’s Footballer of the Year, Most Promising Talent, Referee of the Year, Legend of the year, Fair Play Award, Platinum Award (which has only one nominee), and Africa Finest XI.

    Globacom has been sponsoring the CAF Awards since 2005.

  • Glo-CAF Awards: Ayew, Toure, Aubameyang listed

    Glo-CAF Awards: Ayew, Toure, Aubameyang listed

    • Amuneke nominated for Coach of the Year
    • Nwakali, Osimhen, Etebo also shortlisted

    The Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Abuja on Monday announced the names of three top nominees for the 2015 African Footballer of the Year Award.

    The names were announced at a joint press briefing by the CAF, organisers of the most prestigious annual African footballer of the year award and its exclusive sponsor, Globacom, the Next Generation Network at a joint press conference held at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Abuja on Monday.

    The three nominees, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon & Borrussia Dortmund of Germany, four-time African Player of the Year, Yaya Toure of Cote d’Ivoire and Manchester City and Andrew Ayew of Ghana and Swansea City FC were announced by CAF Executive Committee Member,  Moucharafou Anjorin, who represented CAF at the event.

    CAF also released the names of top three finalists for the Africa-based ‘Player of the Year’ Award. They are: Mbwana Aly Samatta of Tanzania and TP Mazembe, Baghdad Bounedjah of Algeria and Etoile du Sahel and Robert Kidiaba of Dmocratic Republic of Congo and TP Mazembe.

    The list was prepared through a vigorous selection process by the Technical, Football and Media Committees of CAF, taking into account the performance of the players for their national teams and clubs from January to November of each year.

    The King will be crowned at the Awards Night holding at the International Convention Centre, Abuja on January 7, 2016.

    Also released is the list of nominees for other categories of the Awards. Nominated for Women Player of the Year are the duo of Gabrielle Onguene and Gaelle Enganamouit of Cameroon, Ngozi Ebere of Nigeria, N’rehy Tia Ines of Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana’s Portia Boakye while the Youth Player of the Year has Adama Traore of Mali, Kelechi Nwakali of Nigeria, Samuel Diarra of Mali, Victor Osimhen of Nigeria and Yaw Yeboha of Ghana as nominees.

    For the Coach of the Year Award, Baye Ba of Mali U- 17 team, Emmanuel Amuneke of Nigeria’s U-17 team, Fawzi Benzarti of Etoile Sportive de Sahel, Herve Renard of Cote dIvoire and Patrice Carteron of TPMazembe were nominated while Azubuike Okechukwu of Nigeria, Djigui Diarra of Mali, Etebo Oghenekaro of Nigeria, Mahmoud Abdelmonem of Egypt, and Zinedine Ferhat of Algeria were shortlisted for the Most Promising Player of Year Award.

    Others are African Legend Award which will be decided between Charles Kumi Gyamfi of Ghana and Samuel Mbappe Leppe of Cameroon and National Team of the Year Award which will be contested for by Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali U-17, Nigeria U-17 and Nigeria U-23 teams.

    USMA of Algeria, TP Mazembe of DR Congo, Orlando Pirates of South Africa and Etoile Sportive du Sahel of Tunisia were nominated for Club of the Year Award while in the Women National Team of the Year category Ghana, Camerron, South Africa and Zimbabwe were shortlisted.

    Five referees including Alioum of Cameroon, Bakary Papa Gassama of Gambia, Eric Arnaud Otogo Castane of Gabon, Ghead Zaglol Grisha of Egypt and Janny Sikazwe of Zambia will compete for the Referee of The Year Award. The prestigious Platinum Award will be presented to President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria for being the host and for his passionate commitment to the development of football.

    The Glo-CAF Awards gala has become one of the world’s most iconic sports awards ceremonies, providing Africa with a reputable forum for recognising and rewarding excellence in the various departments of football.

    Globacom Limited and CAF have been in partnership for the past 11 years, and have worked together to make the African Best Football Player Awards glamorous, thereby stimulating the growth of African football.

    Speaking at the event, Globacom’ s Business Director, North West,  Kemi Kaka who represented the company at the occasion, said that “This is the 11th year of Glo-CAF partnership and we at Glo take pride in the significant strides our alliance with CAF has achieved in raising the quality and popularity of football in Africa.”

    Kaka said: “Globacom will continue to use its clout in sports sponsorships in Africa to encourage people in sports, African Culture and business to excel.”

  • Abuja prepares to host 2015 GLO-CAF Awards

    Abuja prepares to host 2015 GLO-CAF Awards

    Excitement is gradually building up in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, as it prepares to host the 2015 Glo-CAF Awards on  January 7, 2016.

    Since the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced in October this year that Abuja, Nigeria, will host the prestigious Gala nite of the 2015 Glo-CAF Awards, sponsors of the event, Globacom said  plans are afoot to stage a memorable Glo-CAF Awards for the second time in Nigeria’s federal capital.

    Abuja  hosted the inaugural edition of Glo-CAF Awards in 2005.

    Globacom, in a press statement released on Tuesday in Lagos, said that “the Glo-CAF Awards 2015 will parade the greatest African football legends, including the new African Footballer of the Year and winners in 12 other categories.”  The categories include African Player of The Year (Based in Africa), National Team of The Year, Club of The Year, and Coach of The Year.

    Other categories are Women’s National Team of The Year, Women’s Footballer of The Year, Most Promising Talent, Referee of The Year, Legend of The year, Fair Play Award, Platinum Award, which has only one nominee, and Africa Finest XI.

    Abuja, Nigeria was announced as the host of 2015 Glo-CAF Awards by CAF last month and sponsors and organisers of the event, Globacom said that plans are afoot to stage a memorable Awards gala for the second time in Nigeria’s federal capital.

    The event is expected to congregate top football celebrities across Africa, as well as top government officials from Nigeria, Ghana and other parts of Africa, the statement said.

    Expectedly, the Awards and possible winners have been the subject of discussions in the media and among football fans and youth across Africa.

    The list of top 10 contenders for the 2015 African Footballer of the Year and 10 nominees for Africa Footballer of the Year (Africa-based) was recently released by CAF.

    Since Glo took over the sponsorship in 2005, the event has been held in several cities in Africa.  Accra, Ghana hosted the 2006 edition while the 2007 edition was held in Lome, Togo.

    The city of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre hosted the event for the first time in 2008 before it moved back to Accra in 2009. Cairo, the capital of Egypt hosted the 2010 edition of the award while the event was held back-to-back in Accra, Ghana between 2011 and 2012 while Lagos hosted the 2013 and 2014 editions.