CAF Postpones 2009 Africa Footballer Of The Year Award

Posted by Contributor on February 12, 2010 at 9:24 am in Football, Sports

The continental football governing body reschedules the awards gala to enable all nominees to attend…
By K.N.S Mensah, Goal.com

The African Footballer of the Year 2009 awards night has been moved to Accra, Ghana and rescheduled to take place on Thursday, March 11, 2010.

According to Cafonline the change of date is also to ensure the attendance of all nominees pencilled in for honours. It will be the second time the annual event has been staged in the Ghanaian capital, after the previous occasion in March 2007. It was initially scheduled for the Senegalese capital Dakar.

The ceremony, dubbed Glo-CAF 2009 Awards Night is being contested by African superstars – Ivorian striker Didier Drogba, compatriot Yaya Toure, Ghana’s Michael Essien, Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon and Malian Seydou Keita.

Cellular outfit Globacom will be sponsoring for the fifth time the event that seeks to honour and celebrate African football and its best performing actors for the calendar year 2009.

Togo’s Emmanuel Adebayor is the reigning African Player of the Year.

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