{"id":336,"date":"2014-01-11T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T10:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=336"},"modified":"2014-01-11T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T23:02:53","slug":"yaya-toure-is-the-king-of-african-football-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/uncategorised\/yaya-toure-is-the-king-of-african-football-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaya Toure is the King of African Football 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City star Yaya Toure on Thursday won a third straight CAF Footballer of the Year Award ahead of Mikel Obi of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Ivory Coast international also won the award in 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time winner Didier Drogba was also nominated for this award.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian legend Mohamed Aboutrika beat compatriot Ahmed Fathy and Sunday Mba from Nigeria to win the best Player based in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of winners of the 2013 CAF Awards:<\/p>\n<p><b>African Footballer of the Year <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yaya Toure<\/p>\n<p><b>Best African-based Player<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Aboutrika<\/p>\n<p><b>Coach of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Keshi<\/p>\n<p><b>Most promising Talent<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kelechi Iheanacho<\/p>\n<p><b>National Team of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria<\/p>\n<p><b>National Youth Team of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria U17<\/p>\n<p><b>Club of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Al Ahly of Egypt<\/p>\n<p><b>Referee of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Haimoudi Djamel<\/p>\n<p><b>Legends of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bruno Metsu, Jose Faria<\/p>\n<p>Africa XI \u2013 Vincent Enyeama \u2013 Ahmed Fathi, Fari, Kevin Constant \u2013 Mikel Obi, Yaya Toure, Jonathan Pitroipa, Mohamed Aboutrika \u2013 Emmanuel Emenike, Asamoah Gyan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang <b>Coach:<\/b> Stephen Keshi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City star Yaya Toure on Thursday won a third straight CAF Footballer of the Year Award ahead of Mikel Obi of Nigeria. The 31-year-old Ivory Coast international also won the award in 2011 and 2012. Two-time winner Didier Drogba was also nominated for this award. Egyptian legend Mohamed Aboutrika beat compatriot Ahmed Fathy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60,1],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}