{"id":21437,"date":"2025-10-22T19:54:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/african-player-of-the-year-2025-achraf-hakimi-and-mohamed-salah-lead-10-man-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:54:57","slug":"african-player-of-the-year-2025-achraf-hakimi-and-mohamed-salah-lead-10-man-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/african-player-of-the-year-2025-achraf-hakimi-and-mohamed-salah-lead-10-man-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"African player of the year 2025: Achraf Hakimi and Mohamed Salah lead 10-man shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Women&#8217;s Player of the Year:<\/b> Rasheedat Ajibade (Paris St-Germain &amp; Nigeria), Barbra Banda (Orlando Pride &amp; Zambia), Portia Boakye (Hapoel Petah Tikva &amp; Ghana), Tabitha Chawinga (Lyon &amp; Malawi), Temwa Chawinga (Kansas City &amp; Malawi), Ghizlaine Chebbak (Al Hilal &amp; Morocco), Mama Diop (Strasbourg &amp; Senegal), Rachael Kundananji (Bay FC &amp; Zambia), Sanaa Mssoudy (AS FAR &amp; Morocco), Esther Okoronkwo (AFC Toronto &amp; Nigeria).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Women&#8217;s Goalkeeper of the Year:<\/b>  Sedilame Boseja (Mamelodi Sundowns &amp; Botswana), Andile Dlamini (Mamelodi Sundowns &amp; South Africa), Habiba Emad (FC Masar &amp; Egypt), Khadija Er-Rmichi (AS FAR &amp; Morocco), Fatoumata Karantao (MUSFAS Bamako &amp; Mali), Cynthia Konlan (Swieqi United &amp; Ghana), Adji Ndiaye (AS Bambey &amp; Senegal), Fideline Ndoy (TP Mazembe &amp; DR Congo), Chloe N&#8217;Gazi (Marseille &amp; Algeria), Chiamaka Nnadozie (Brighton &amp; Hove Albion &amp; Nigeria).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Women&#8217;s Coach of the Year: <\/b>Genoveva Anonman (15 de Agosto), Kim Bjorkegren (Ghana), Lamia Boumehdi (TP Mazembe), Desiree Ellis (South Africa), Carol Kanyemba (Zambia U17), Adelaide Koudougnon (Ivory Coat U17), Justin Madugu (Nigeria), Bankole Olowookere (Nigeria U17), Siaka Gigi Traore (ASEC Mimosas), Jorge Vilda (Morocco).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Women&#8217;s National Team of the Year: <\/b>Cameroon U17, Ghana, Ivory Coast U17, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Nigeria U17, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia U17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The full lists of nominees in all seven categories are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/news\/caf-unveils-nominees-in-women-s-categories-for-the-caf-awards-2025\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Caf website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ced6lzzw4qxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s Player of the Year: Rasheedat Ajibade (Paris St-Germain &amp; Nigeria), Barbra Banda (Orlando Pride &amp; Zambia), Portia Boakye (Hapoel Petah Tikva &amp; Ghana), Tabitha Chawinga (Lyon &amp; Malawi), Temwa Chawinga (Kansas City &amp; Malawi), Ghizlaine Chebbak (Al Hilal &amp; Morocco), Mama Diop (Strasbourg &amp; Senegal), Rachael Kundananji (Bay FC &amp; Zambia), Sanaa Mssoudy (AS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21439,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437\/revisions\/21439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}