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Eto'o named 'African Footballer of the Year' for record fourth time
The Confederation of African Football named Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o African Footballer of the Year for a record fourth time at an awards ceremony in Cairo on Monday.
By News Wires (text)
AFP - Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o was named African Footballer of the Year a record fourth time at the annual CAF awards ceremony in Cairo Monday.
The 29-year-old native of central town Nkon finished ahead of first-time finalist Asamoah Gyan of Ghana and former winner Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast in a poll among national coaches on the continent.
Eto'o, who won the most prestigious African football individual honour three years in a row from 2003, was voted the best player at the FIFA Club World Cup won by his Italian team Inter Milan last Saturday.
The Cameroonian scored a clinical, close-range second goal in a 3-0 triumph over TP Mazembe from Democratic Republic of Congo, the first African club to reach the final of the 10-year competition.
Inter are now champions of the world, Europe and Italy and the goals of former Real Madrid, Real Mallorca and Barcelona star Eto'o have played a pivotal role in those successes.
However, he had meagre success as captain of the Cameroon 'Indomitable Lions' this year with the team making a meek quarter-finals exit from the African Nations Cup in Angola.
The leading all-time scorer in this competition scored once against Zambia and Tunisia, but the 'Lions' suffered a shock group loss to Gabon and defending champions Egypt outclassed them in the first knockout round.
Cameron then fared disastrously at the first World Cup hosted by Africa last June, losing all three group matches under the leadership of Eto'o and were the first country eliminated from the competition.
Internal strife bedevilled the squad with some players trying to tell French coach Paul le Guen who to select and the only consolation for Eto'o was goals against Denmark and the Netherlands.
TP Mazembe, the four-time African Champions League winners who stunned Internacional of Brazil 2-0 in the United Arab Emirates last week before finishing runners-up to Inter Milan, were named Club of the Year.
Milovan Rajevac, the humble Serb coach who made 2010 such a memorable year for Ghana, took the Coach of the Year award. He resigned after the World Cup to join Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad Jeddah.
Other award winners included Al-Ahly and Egypt midfielder Ahmed Hassan (Africa-based Player) and Ghana midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah (Most Promising Talent) while Ghana were predictably named best national team.
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Comments (61)
je veux un fan de eto'o
Eto'o est un grand joueur de ça catégorie j'aime
aide
bonjour grand frere samuel etoo je tres contant de trouve votre adress .et je reve dans ma vie juste entendre votre vois au telephone,moi je suis fans de toi et camerounais j atent votre reponse s v p merci cordialement
hi
how do i get in touch with samuel etoo .can some one help me
comunication avec samuel etoo
communiquer en visuel avec etoo
samuel eto'o marginalised
imagine that upon all the quality football played by eto'o this year,he was not even amongst the top ten best nines of the world for the year 2010.i looking forward to seeing if he will not be amongst the first 3 once more in the world.thanks.
éto'o african footballer of year
il le mérite et mérita bien plus que ça pourquoi pas le ballon d'or Européen il a les potentialités au moins pour une fois pour le remercier pour tout ce qu'il a fait pour le football Européen
love
j'ai samuel eto'o
info
j'aime s.eto'o c'est ma legende
Eto'o i just can't stop
Eto'o i just can't stop loving your football.Africans we are proud of you.
Eto,o
Eto,o is African best player for real!!!
He deserved it
Yes, before now i was expecting CAF to give such award to people that deserved it and not people that don't worth it. Eto is the best in Africa for the moment.
He deserves it being the
He deserves it being the best African player of the year.
hi
he did not deserve to be name the african footballer of the year
etoo naa best.
it good to at view all the time.
bienvenue angdéré cameroun
salut comment tu va. fais moi parle eto'o merci.
on Etoo's fourth african football king
I'm quite sure nobody else deserve this award better than you................ You are Great at what u know to do best.
the guy what it
if any of football fans cannot embrace wit etoo as africa football of the year should go and hug transformer.ve a nice day
ManU will beat them
man united will win all their matches
comments on etoo fourth award
He is really good and attractable player appear in Africa and no one can stop him till he will retire.
KING SAMUEL ETO.
Not surprise that Eto won the african footballer of the year award,if you ask me, between George Weah and Eto who is d greatest? Pls give it to Eto Fils.
KING SAMUEL ETO.
Not surprise that Eto won the african footballer of the year award,if you ask me, between George Weah and Eto who is d greatest? Pls give it to Eto Fils.
i love france 24
i love france 24
i love france 24
I love France 24. long live Samuel Eto'o. we love you here in Cameroon thank you
why say messi de claim al awards?
oooooo messi why say u de claim all de awards wey u noe give c.ro some a de sea say he de cry so booso messi go halla am some we the chelsea supoters de beg u oooooooo
king eto'o
a worthy African, a footballer to the core.....all hail the king
yeah he deserve it really
Congratolationsssss Etooo you deserve :D
An impression
Congratulations to Samuel eto'o for his brillant performances in 2010 and more efforts.
world best forever
This is the kind of player they want to look low upon can you imagine.A player with records.
african player of the year
Samuel Etoo is the pride of Africa and has proven beyond all doubts that he is the man, and deserves it.This guy is the best Africa has ever seen and produced.Hurray Sammy continue to rock soccer in Africa and all over the world.You are the best.
Big thanks to the Coaches
I sincerely give thanks and appreciation to the Coaches of African for the wisdom voting the did by selecting the greatest player in the world Samuel Ett'o as African foot ballor of the year. Indeed sincerity is returning to Africa.
Thank a millions.
why e,too
I thing the best player of the yaer in africa ahmeed hassen
it's well deserving
it's well deserving
comment on Eto
you are the great player we hav evr produced in africa keep that up my big brother im also coming to that and u drogba jst watch that happen they is nothing u can do eto is ur brother he is teaching u leson of socer dont wori u time is comin soon
MY CONTRIBUTION
I BELIEVE THAT ETO TRULY DESERVES THE AWARD, BECAUSE HE IS A CONSISTENT PLAYER, WHO POESES THE QUALITIES OF A GREAT FOOTBALLER,
v
Congratulations! I know you are the best player in the african.
PRAISES
ETOO WAS TOO WONDERFUL TO BE NAMED AFRICAN FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR FOR A RECORD FOURTH TIME.IN FACT,HE IS THE BEST OF THE BEST.
I wish to say hear that Caf
I wish to say hear that Caf this year has done the selection without lots of criticism from the public and media as oppose to that of last year.
They should continue like this and not try to be bias.
Congratulation
I wish to comment on Eto'o performance in his club inter.
I wish to say to Eto.o that he is the pride of Africa and Cameroon in particular.
In that case he should do every thing possible to bring peace and harmony in the Cameroon team since he is the captain.
His performance in his club should also be felt back in Cameroon we should not only be happy when we see him play in Europe but be happy when he play in Cameroon.
Thanks.
Nkeh
Eto'o as Africa's footballer of the year
This is supposed to be the fifth time Eto'o should have won the coverted trophy but last year, it was embarrassingly offered to Drogba who achieved nothing in 2009. Talents must be appreciated by its worth not by its extrasporting character.
Congrats Sam
Congrtatulations Samuel for your remarkable achievement now gun for the World player of the year so that you emulate the great King George Weah ,u still have time to just that
ETOO
I WILL JUST LIKE TO SAY SAMUEL ETOO DEVESR THE AWARD AS AFRICAN BEST.
i like him
samuel is a great payer.thanks
i like this
this award though good was really delayed with
i lkove you eto
i know you are the best player in the african
Is it just a man's show?
I'm sure it must be an oversight or how else do you explain your silence on the remarkable feat of Perpetual Nkwocha who was voted the best female footballer of the year for a record fourth time.
Eto'o the pride and icon of African football
Eto'o is indeed the pride and icon of african football after his consitend and tremendous performance in the game of soccer, he has made himsell an example for other africans to emulate. good luck eto'o
etoo the best
Africa is there in terms of football,watch out for more stars from Ghana,its not Asamoah only there is ayew and these awards did not recognize the man between the post,l hope in future we as the owners of the game needs everyone who contributed to the success of the team to be taken into consideration..
it for him eto
we all know that this award belongs to eto even the 2009 award belong to him but those greed africa sport leaders always cheat,God help africans eto is the best bravo..........
etoo the great player in this century
dear footbal fans,have you ever see a player like etoo.a stricker who plays the rull as a midfielfer.well etoo is more than any player in this world.let messi,xavi and iniester leave barcelone and lets see if the will still perform like etoo/oh my God etoo the creat
jonathan from cameroon
african best
i really think that asamoah gyan of ghana really deserves the award. the award which was given to etoo depicts that really CAF considers european performances than even performances in african cup and world cup. what a pity?
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