Riyad Mahrez A Deserved 2016 African Footballer Of The Year.


        Algeria and Leicester  Riyad Mahrez  pix above was named  the 2016 African Footballer of the year yesterday in Abuja Nigeria  5th of  January 2017 ,the winger's fine form in the 2015-2016 season in English premier league club  Leicester saw him win the premier league and other top honours.

Mahrez nomination and winning the African footballer of the year 2015 edition was never a surprise to anyone who knows football very well though  Patrick -Emerick  Aubameyang would also be seen as a strong contender going by his current form  and even his form last season in which he won the top African honour. Looking into the votes casted, the margin with which Mahrez  won  was somewhat closer to that of Aubameyang (361 to 313). This shows Aubameyang is also a good man for the honor he won last time but hitherto,  have to settle for a second  place .The third best man in Africa Sadio Mane  got 186 votes, the Sinigaleas heat man has been in fine form for Liverpool and is a deserved man for the third position. 

  
                                                          Mahrez EPL  Champ.




 Mahrez who won the PFA player of the year last season scored 17 goals as he was selected ahead of team mates  N'golo Kante, Jamie Vardy,as well as Payer and Ozil to win the award. The 25  years  old is among the French born players to win African Footballer of the year after Frederic Kanoute and Aubameyang. And he is the third Algerian international to have won the award after the likes of Lakhdar Bellini (1981) and Rabah Madjer (1987).


With  Mahrez deep in form with Leicester this season and finding it difficult to replicate last seasons form resulting in Leicester down to 15th on the premier league table  thus  far.  It remains to see if the win of African footballer of the year will motivate him to find his form back in the second half of premier league. If he does, fine but if not, then he may have to leave the contest for the   2017  African footballer of the year for Aubameyang and Mane  to contest for, both of which are in fine forms respectively, or perhaps any other player who will pick form.





















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