CAF picks Shehata as Africa's coach for 2008.LAGOS: The Confederation of African Football (CAF CAF - constant applicative form ) picked Egypt coach, Hassan Shehata as Africa's Coach of the Year, and the team he led to successfully defend the Nations Cup in Accra last year were picked as the best national team on the continent. Ahly were crowned Club of the Year ahead of Tunisia's CS Sfaxien, who defended the CAF Confederation Cup The CAF Confederation Cup is an international club association football competition run by the Confederation of African Football. It replaced the African Cup Winners' Cup and the CAF Cup in 2004. , and beaten CAF Champions League finalists, Cotonsport from Cameroon. Several other Egyptians won various award categories. Ahly's Mohamed Abou-Trika as the Inter-Club Player of the Year. Togo international Emmanuel Adebayor was named the continent's best player for 2008 at an elaborate awards ceremony here Tuesday night. Adebayor, 25 later this month, beat final nominees Abo-Trika of Egypt and Ghana's Michael Essien in a vote that involved the national team coaches of CAF's 54 member-nations. It was the first time a Togolese took the accolade as Africa's best player. The awards night was graced by many dignitaries including FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f President Joseph Blatter Blat´ter v. i. 1. To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [ imp. & p. p. os> ( ) r>.] They procured . . . and CAF President Issa Hayatou. Salomon Kalou of Ivory Coast and Chelsea was the CAF Young Player of the Year ahead of Cameroon's Stephane Mbia and Nigerian forward Victor Obinna Nsofor. The previous year's winner was Zambia's Clifford Mulenga, who now features for South African Premier Soccer League Premier Soccer League is the trading name of the National Soccer League (NSL) of South Africa, also known by its initials (PSL). The PSL's is divided into two leagues. The top league is the Castle Premiership, sponsored by Castle Lager. club Thanda Royal Zulu Thanda Royal Zulu is a South African football (soccer) club based in Durban. The club was known as Benoni Premier United until the 2006/2007 season when it was bought by a Swedish consortium. The new owners moved the franchise from Benoni to KwaZulu-Natal. . Former Nigeria skipper and coach, Christian Chukwu was awarded the African Legend prize. Daily NewsEgypt 2009 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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