Aubameyang is Arsenal’s No 1 target to replace Manchester United-bound Alexis Sanchez and talks over a £53 million move have been in progress this week.
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Cameroon striker, Vincent Aboubakar, and Burkina Faso’s Bertrand Traore were placed fifth and sixth in a demographic made available by the Confederation of African Football on Friday.
The 25-year old Salah and 23-year-old Oshoala won the topmost prize at the Aiteo CAF Awards Gala 2017 held at the International Conference Centre in Accra, Ghana
This win would mean Salah has won the two biggest personal accolades for African footballers, the BBC Player of the Year and the CAF Player of the Year, in the space of a few weeks
The capital of Ghana, Accra, is abuzz and bracing up for unarguably the biggest football gathering of the new year, Aiteo CAF Awards 2017.
The final shortlist for the awards features Liverpool duo of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane and Borussia Dortmund striker, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The pair face a 9,000-mile round trip this week to attend the Confederation of African Football awards bash in Accra, which takes place on Thursday evening.
The 25-year-old Liverpool star beat Gabon’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Guinean Naby Keita, Sadio Mané of Senegal and Nigeria’s Victor Moses.
Defeat for Dortmund leaves the German outfit battling it out with APOEL for a Europa League place, but Peter Bosz’s side only have to match the result of the Cypriot club in order to progress
The nomination follows another he received earlier this month for the African Footballer of the Year award, organised by CAF, the continent’s governing body
The young Nigerian is expected to slip down the pecking order this summer as City look to add another striker with the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Kylian Mbappe and Pierre Emerick Aubameyang on their list
The visitors took a one goal lead into the second leg
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the match, played at the Stade l’Amitie, saw the Borussia Dortmund star scoring a 38th minute penalty to secure his side’s second 1-1 draw in Group A
Gabon appeared to be heading for victory in Saturday’s Group A curtain-raiser after Borussia Dortmund striker Aubameyang turned the ball in from close range seven minutes into the second half at the Stade de l’Amitie in the capital Libreville
Nigeria’s duo of Oghenekaro Etebo and Victor Osimhen crowned their 2015 with awards in different categories