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Egyptian international Mohamed Salah is competing for the title of African player of the year with his compatriot Sadio Manet and his international striker Pierre-Emeric Obamyang of Gabon.
Salah appeared to be the candidate for the second year of Tawala at the annual continental union ceremony Tuesday in Dakar, the Senegalese capital.
Salah won the first individual award of the year 2018 by winning the BBC 's Best BBC Player of the Year Award. He seems to be the closest to winning the UEFA Cup, unless there is a surprise in Dakar.
When he is chosen again, the Egyptian pharaoh will be the first player in North Africa to win the prize twice in a row.
Salah, 26, is the first Egyptian to win this award since the start of the current prize in 1992 and hopes to win a second consecutive victory to match Senegalese striker Alhaji Diouf (2001 and 2002), Cameroon's Samuel Eto & # 39. o (2003 and 2004) and Ivorian Yaya Toure (2011). And 2012).
Toure won the Tualia (2011-2014) over four years, a record he shares with Eto's, sacred, but not for consecutive periods.
Salah scored 44 goals in various competitions for Liverpool last season, his first at Anfield after his transfer from Rome to Italy.
Under Obayang, he was on the final list for the fifth year of his career in 2014, winning the award in 2015, finishing in 2016 and third in the previous year.
Manet was third in 2016 behind Algeria's Riadh Mehrez and Obamiang, and a title in 2017.
Mauritania and Madagascar, who have both booked their first two cards for the Africa Cup of Nations, are competing with Uganda for the best team of the year.
Assisat Ochwala, Nigerian champion of the Africa Cup of Nations, is a strong candidate for the third best player of the year.
Her compatriot Francisca Ordiga and South African Cristina Caglana, who led her country to the continental final, faced Nigeria.
(Arabic 21)
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