Super Eagles miss out of 2015 Glo-Caf Awards

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The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has released the final list of nominees for various categories of the 2015 Glo-Caf awards with the Super Eagles conspicuously missing from the team of this year's nominees.

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There is also no Nigerian player in the top three for the prestigious African Player of the Year ( APOY) award.

Yaya Toure of the Ivory Coast, Dede Ayew of Ghana and Gabon skipper Pierre Aubameyang are the three finalists that will slot it out for the award.

However, Nigeria were nominated in the Women Player of the Year category as well as getting nominations in four other categories.

The award ceremony will hold in Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday, January 7, 2016.

Below are the nominees for the various categories in alphabetical order;

African Footballer of the Year • Yaya Toure • Andre Dede Ayew • Pierre Emerick Aubameyang

Women Player of the Year • Gabrielle Onguéné, Cameroon • Gaelle Enganamouit, Cameroon • Ngozi Ebere, Nigeria • N'rehy Tia Ines, Cote d’Ivoire • Portia Boakye, Ghana

Youth Player of the Year • Adama Traore, Mali • Kelechi Nwakali, Nigeria • Samuel Diarra, Mali • Victor Osimhen, Nigeria • Yaw Yeboah, Ghana

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Most Promising Talent • Azubuike Okechukwu, Nigeria • Etebo Oghenekaro, Nigeria • Djigui Diarra, Mali • Mahmoud Abdelmonem ‘kahraba’, Egypt • Zinedine Ferhat, Algeria

Coach of the Year • Baye Ba, Mali, U17 • Emmanuel Amunike, Nigeria U17 • Fawzi Benzarti, Etoile Sportive de Sahel • Hervé Renard, Cote d’ivore • Patrice Carteron, TP Mazembe

Referee of the Year • Alioum Neant, Cameroon • Bakary Papa GASSAMA, Gambia • Eric Arnaud OTOGO CASTANE, Gabon • Ghead Zaglol GRISHA, Egypt • Janny SIKAZWE, Zambia

African Legend • Charles Kumi Gyamfi, Ghana • Samuel Mbappé Léppé, Cameroon

National Team of the Year • Cote d’Ivoire • Ghana • Mali U17 • Nigeria U17 • Nigeria U-23

Women National Team of the Year • Ghana • Cameroon • South Africa • Zimbabwe

Club of the Year • USM Algers , Algeria • TP Mazembe, DR Congo • Orlando Pirates, South Africa • Etoile Sportive du Sahel, Tunisia