Our colleagues from Radio France Internationale and France 24 awarded this Monday, May 13, the 16th Marc Vivien Foé award to the Olympique de Marseille striker. This is the second time that the Gabonese has won this trophy, after that of 2013 when he played for Saint-Etienne.
The Gabonese (251 points) was well ahead of his two other opponents in the final, Parisian right-back and Moroccan international Achraf Hackimi (116 points) and Lille midfielder Nabil Bentaleb (Algerian) who obtained 112 points; thanks to his XXL performance this season with OM, 16 goals and 8 assists.
In the history of the Marc Vivien Foé Prize, only the Ivorian Gervinho had doubled the stake by winning the trophy in 2010 and 2011.
The Marc Vivien Foé prize has rewarded each year, since 2009, the best African player in the first division football championship, Ligue 1, which this season brought together no less than a hundred African players.
The Gabonese, 34 years old, is the oldest winner of the Marc Vivien Foé Prize, which only footballers from seven (7) countries have won: Ivory Coast (5 times), Morocco (3 times), Nigeria (twice), the DRC (twice), Gabon (twice), and Ghana and Cameroon (once).
Pierre Emérick Aubameyang succeeds his teammate and OM captain, Congolese international defender Chancel Mbémba.
Alph’-Willem Eslie
2024-05-13 07:36:02
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