Black Stars and Manchester City winger Antoine Selorm Semenyo has been nominated as part of 10 players for this year’s African Footballer of the Year (AFOY) Award.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) released the nominations on Wednesday, November 4.
The 26-year-old attacker was the only Ghanaian in the nominations.
He is set to face competition from nine players consisting three Senegalese, three Moroccans, an Ivorian, a Congolese and a South African.
The nominees will be shortlisted to five and then to three before the awards ceremony on Monday, December 7 in Lagos, Nigeria.
The nominees are: Amad Diallo (Ivory Coast), Yoane Wissa (DR Congo), Antoine Semenyo (Ghana), Ismael Saibari (Morocco), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco) and Brahim Díaz (Morocco).
The others are Ismaïla Sarr (Senegal), Pape Gueye (Senegal), Sadio Mané (Senegal) and Teboho Mokoena (South Africa).
Meanwhile, Black Queens captain Portia Boakye has also been nominated in the women’s category with both senior national soccer teams also earning nominations.
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