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CAIRO (Reuters) – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Wednesday the list of 34 candidates for the best player of 2018, including 15 Arabs led respectively by Liverpool, Manchester City, Mohamed Salah and Algerian Riyad Mehrez.
Mahrez will be crowned with 2016 and Salah in 2017. He will be ahead of rivals Pierre-Emeric Obamyang of Gabon, who was crowned in 2015, and Salah in Senegalese Sadeo Manet, Guinean Nabi Keita and Senegalese Coulibaly.
The first list of candidates, Moroccans Ayoub Kaabi (Hebi Fortune), Hakim Ziash (Ajax Amsterdam), Ismael Haddad (Wydad Casablanca), Mahdy Ben Attia (Juventus) and Tunisian Anis El Badri, head of Esperance, Al-Masri, who also named Walid Suleiman among the candidates.
The winners of this prize are Algerian Arab Abdelmoumin Gabou (ES Setif), Ybadine Brahmi (Porto), Youssef Blaile (Esperance Tunis), Tounsine Taha Ybadin Al-Khneissi (Esperance), Ahbi Al Khazri (Saint-Etienne). And the Moroccan Mahmoud Bhalib (Raja Casablanca).
The Moroccan names Ashraf Hakimi (Borussia Dortmund) and Benleib were among the six candidates for the Young Player of the Year Award, the Moroccan Rachid Taoussi, who oversees ES Setif, was the only Arab candidate for the best coach.
The Mauritanians, who qualified for the first time for the finals of the 2019 Nations Cup of Nations, have been named as the only Arab team among six teams to win the best team award.
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