Sunderland’s striker, Asamoah Gyan, Andre Ayew ,Kwadwo Asamoah and two other
Blackstars players are among the 30 players shortlisted for this year’s GLO/CAF
Award.

However, Nigeria’s and Chelsea’s midfielder, Mikel Obi and his team mate,
Michael Essin are among some ppromnent players whose names are conspicuously
missing on the list.
The popular belief among some fans that Nigeria and Chelsea of England
midfielder Mikel Obi is one of Africa’s best footballer in the outgoing year
has been given a setback when CAF released a provisional list of 30 footballers
for the Glo CAF Footballer of the year award for 2010.
The absence of Michael Essien of Ghana could be attributed to the long spell of
injury he suffered in the year under review, an injury that prevented him from
featuring for Ghana in the last World Cup hosted by South Africa.
In the list made available to members of the CAF Media, Technical and Football
committees, the members are expected to pencil down their ten nominees in the
order of their preferences.
After the three committees must have voted, the list of ten players will have
emerged and then be subjected to the final scrutiny of the continent’s national
football coaches.
Cote D’ivoire and Ghana have the highest number of nominees with five each,
Egypt, Morroco and Cameroun has three each, Algeria has two, while Mali, South
Africa, Zambia, Senegal, Benin and RD Congo have one candidate each.
As usual, the traditional names are not missing. They include Didier Drogba,
Asamoah Gyan, Andre Ayew, Etoo Fils, Yaya Toure, Kolo Toure, Salomon Kalou and
Egypt’s Mohammed Gedo.