BBC 2014 African Footballer Of The Year to Emerge Today

At 5:35 today the winner of BBC African footballer of the year will emerge.
Those in contention are Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Yacine Brahimi, Vincent Enyeama, Gervinho and Yaya Toure.

The list will be trimmed to two players at about 1540GMT online and on Sport Today on the BBC World Service.

Your choice of the best footballer on the continent for 2014 will then be revealed across the BBC World Service on TV and radio as well as online.source


A record number of votes were received from fans in 207 Fifa-registered countries since the nominees were announced three weeks ago.

Thanks you to all of you who submitted your vote.

Four of the candidates played at this summer’s World Cup in Brazil, where for the first time in the tournament’s history two African sides made it out of the group phase.

Goalkeeper Enyeama played in the last 16 of the tournament with Nigeria, while Brahimi reached the same stage with Algeria.

Enyeama, 32, went into the event off the back of an outstanding campaign for French club Lille – he kept 21 clean sheets for them last season.