Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released a shortlist of the 2013 African Player of the Year award and after the cut down, Asamoah Gyan will be competing with John Obi Mikel, Yaya Toure, Didier Drogba and others…
With Yaya Toure having been named BBC’s African player of the year-2013, and having won CAF’s player of the year in 2012, it is more likely he will take home the award this year too.
According to Goal.Com;
Caf has released the shortlists for the 2013 African Player of the Year and the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) awards
Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is one of 10 players who have been shortlisted for the 2013 Caf Africa Player of the Year.
Members of the Technical & Development and the Media Committees from the initial list of nominees have voted, bringing down the shortlists from 25 to 10 in the Player of the Year list and from 21 to five for the players based in Africa category.