{"id":518,"date":"2013-11-25T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/2013\/11\/25\/nominees-for-2013-african-player-of-the-year-revealed\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:50:51","slug":"nominees-for-2013-african-player-of-the-year-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/nominees-for-2013-african-player-of-the-year-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominees for 2013 African Player of the Year revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: \" New=\"New\" Roman\";=\"Roman\";\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"mso-hansi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-hansi-theme-font:=\"mso-hansi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" mso-bidi-font-family:=\"mso-bidi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-bidi-theme-font:=\"mso-bidi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" color:=\"color:\" black;=\"black;\" mso-themecolor:=\"mso-themecolor:\" text1;=\"text1;\" mso-ansi-language:=\"mso-ansi-language:\" EN-US;\"=\"EN-US;\"\" \/>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has  released the nominees for the 2013 African Player of the Year and the  African Player of the Year (Based in Africa).\u00a0  <!--more-->  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: \" New=\"New\" Roman\";=\"Roman\";\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"mso-hansi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-hansi-theme-font:=\"mso-hansi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" mso-bidi-font-family:=\"mso-bidi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-bidi-theme-font:=\"mso-bidi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" color:=\"color:\" black;=\"black;\" mso-themecolor:=\"mso-themecolor:\" text1;=\"text1;\" mso-ansi-language:=\"mso-ansi-language:\" EN-US;\"=\"EN-US;\"\">Twenty-five (25) players made the cut for the  flagship African Player of the Year category, and twenty-one (21) for  the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: \" New=\"New\" Roman\";=\"Roman\";\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"mso-hansi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-hansi-theme-font:=\"mso-hansi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" mso-bidi-font-family:=\"mso-bidi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-bidi-theme-font:=\"mso-bidi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" color:=\"color:\" black;=\"black;\" mso-themecolor:=\"mso-themecolor:\" text1;=\"text1;\" mso-ansi-language:=\"mso-ansi-language:\" EN-US;\"=\"EN-US;\"\">The winners will be announced at the Glo-CAF Awards Gala scheduled for Thursday, January 9, 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: \" New=\"New\" Roman\";=\"Roman\";\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"mso-hansi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-hansi-theme-font:=\"mso-hansi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" mso-bidi-font-family:=\"mso-bidi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-bidi-theme-font:=\"mso-bidi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" color:=\"color:\" black;=\"black;\" mso-themecolor:=\"mso-themecolor:\" text1;=\"text1;\" mso-ansi-language:=\"mso-ansi-language:\" EN-US;\"=\"EN-US;\"\">Ivorian Yaya Toure is the reigning African  Player of the Year and Mohamed Aboutrika of Egypt for the African Player  of the Year (Based in Africa).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: \" New=\"New\" Roman\";=\"Roman\";\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"mso-hansi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-hansi-theme-font:=\"mso-hansi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" mso-bidi-font-family:=\"mso-bidi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-bidi-theme-font:=\"mso-bidi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" color:=\"color:\" black;=\"black;\" mso-themecolor:=\"mso-themecolor:\" text1;=\"text1;\" mso-ansi-language:=\"mso-ansi-language:\" EN-US;\"=\"EN-US;\"\">The nominees are (in alphabetical order);<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: \" New=\"New\" Roman\";=\"Roman\";\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"mso-hansi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-hansi-theme-font:=\"mso-hansi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" mso-bidi-font-family:=\"mso-bidi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-bidi-theme-font:=\"mso-bidi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" color:=\"color:\" black;=\"black;\" mso-themecolor:=\"mso-themecolor:\" text1;=\"text1;\" mso-ansi-language:=\"mso-ansi-language:\" EN-US;\"=\"EN-US;\"\">Know more <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: \" New=\"New\" Roman\";=\"Roman\";\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"mso-hansi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-hansi-theme-font:=\"mso-hansi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" mso-bidi-font-family:=\"mso-bidi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-bidi-theme-font:=\"mso-bidi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" color:=\"color:\" black;=\"black;\" mso-themecolor:=\"mso-themecolor:\" text1;=\"text1;\" mso-ansi-language:=\"mso-ansi-language:\" EN-US;\"=\"EN-US;\"\">Source<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: \" New=\"New\" Roman\";=\"Roman\";\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"mso-hansi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-hansi-theme-font:=\"mso-hansi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" mso-bidi-font-family:=\"mso-bidi-font-family:\" Calibri;=\"Calibri;\" mso-bidi-theme-font:=\"mso-bidi-theme-font:\" minor-latin;=\"minor-latin;\" color:=\"color:\" black;=\"black;\" mso-themecolor:=\"mso-themecolor:\" text1;=\"text1;\" mso-ansi-language:=\"mso-ansi-language:\" EN-US;\"=\"EN-US;\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/football\/news\/18722-nominees-for-2013-african-player-of-the-year-revealed.html\" title=\"www.cafonline\">Cafonline.com<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released the nominees for the 2013 African Player&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}