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The African footballer of the year will be unveiled Tuesday night and the African Football Confederation (CAF) will hold an awards ceremony in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, which will end under the name of the player of the year. on the continent. Liverpool, Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Senegalese Sadio Mani and Arsenal striker, Japani Pierre Emeric Obamyang.
Salah is the winner of the trophy that he won for the first time last year, while Obamyang won it in 2015. Mani had never won this title before .
The vote had already taken place through the Technical Committee of the African Union, with the participation of a group of experts, media and former stars, as well as coaches and leaders from 54 African teams and club coaches, who qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League and Confederations Cup last season.
Before the rewards are unveiled, FilGoal analyzes in figures what the trio has named this year.
Mohammed Salah
In 2018, Mohammed Salah played 50 games in Liverpool in various tournaments, spread over the Premier League season 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, in the England Cup, League Cup and in the 2017-2018 Champions League. and 2018-2018.
In the 50 games, Salah took part in 4047 minutes, scoring 37 goals and 15 assists.
With Egypt, Salah participated in 6 matches split between the World Cup in Russia, the 2019 Nations Cup qualifiers and a friendly match. Salah's total participation with the Pharaohs was 529 minutes, with 7 goals scored and two facts.
In total, Salah participated in 568 games in 2018 with a total of 4576 minutes. The best African player last year scored 44 goals and collected 17 assists.
Sadio Mani
With Liverpool in 2018, Manny has participated in 50 matches of different tournaments, between two editions of English Premier League, two for the Champions League, one for the FA Cup and the League Cup.
The total minutes Manny played with Liverpool in 2018 reached 3892 minutes, scoring 22 goals and 6 assists.
With the Senegalese national team, Mani took part in nine matches between the World Cup qualifiers and the African Cup of Nations and friendly matches totaling 807 minutes of play, scoring a single goal and not giving a decisive pass.
In 2018, Mani participated in 59 games with a total of 4699 minutes. Terranga scored 23 goals and gave 6 assists to his teammates.
Pierre Emeric Obamyang
After a single Bundesliga match with Borussia Dortmund, Obamyang has joined Arsenal, who has represented it in 38 Premier League and League Cup matches, in addition to the European League this season, where he has not yet played. was not eligible to play at Arsenal at the same tournament in 2017-2018.
In 39 games with Dortmund and Arsenal, Obameyang took part in 3104 minutes, scoring 25 goals and 7 assists.
Obamyang played for Gabon only twice in 2018 and was part of the 2019 Nations Cup qualifiers, with 180 minutes. In both games, Obameyang scored one goal and made another.
In 2018, Obameyang played in 41 games, for a total of 3284 minutes. The African footballer of the year scored 26 goals this year and eight assists for his teammates.
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