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CAF Awards
The CAF Awards is an awards evening held to honour the best African association football players. It is conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). History The CAF Awards was first awarded in the year 2000. It is an award contested by the Confederation of African Football and awarded to the best African player in each category. The African Footballer of the Year award is the oldest CAF award, being awarded since 1992 that witnessed Abedi Pele winning the inaugural award. Current awards The awards include: CAF Player of the Year CAF Female Player of the Year CAF Youth Player of the Year CAF Youth Women's Player of the Year African Inter-Club Player of the Year (Based in Africa) African Women's Inter-Club Player of the Year (Based in Africa) CAF Goalkeeper of the Year CAF Women's Goalkeeper of the Year CAF Coach of the Year CAF Women's Coach of the Year African Inter-Club Team of the Year African Women's Inter-Club Team of the Year Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Doha El Madani
Doha El Madani (born 20 October 2005) is a Moroccan footballer who plays as a forward for ASFAR, the Morocco women's national team and Morocco women's national futsal team. Club career Madani has played for ASFAR in Morocco, appearing at the 2024 CAF Women's Champions League. She finished as the top goalscorer at the end of the competition with AS FAR placing second, losing to TP Mazembe in the final. Thanks to her performances, she was nominated for the CAF Awards 2024 in the Young Player and Inter-club Player of the Year categories. International career Madani has played for Morocco's under-17 and under-20 women's national team. She also played for Morocco women's national futsal team in the 2025 Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations, and was "Woman of the Match" in the semi-final game against Angola, which ended with a 5-1 victory. Morocco went on to win the cup in a 3-2 victory against Tanzania, in which El Madani scored the first goal for Morocco. She received top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Youcef Belaïli
Mohamed Youcef Belaïli (; born 14 March 1992) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for club Espérance de Tunis and the Algeria national team. Early life Belaïli was born on 14 March 1992 in Oran. He started playing young with RCG Oran and afterwards with MC Oran. Club career Early career Youcef Belaïli started his football career with RCG Oran, then moved to the reserve team of MC Oran. Belaïli's first season in the Division 1 was with CA Bordj Bou Arreridj, and their first match was on 6 March 2010 against MC El Eulma as a substitute, and after only one season, Belaïli returned to MC Oran for two seasons. In the first season, Belaïli began to impose himself and his first goal was against USM Alger on 27 November 2010, and in the second season Belaïli became an essential piece and required by several clubs inside and outside the country. Espérance de Tunis On 24 May 2012, Belaïli traveled to Tunisia to negotiate a move to Tunisian club E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mohamed El Shenawy
Mohamed El-Sayed Mohamed El-Shenawy Gomaa (; born 18 December 1988) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly, which he captains, and the Egypt national team. He began his career as a youth player with Al Ahly but was released in 2009, joining Tala'ea El Gaish. He spent time on loan with Haras El-Hodoud before joining Petrojet in 2013. He returned to Al Ahly in July 2016 and then displaced Sherif Ekramy; he is considered one of the best goalkeepers in Africa. He helped the club win four consecutive Egyptian Premier League titles seasons 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 and 2019–20 and 2 consecutive CAF Champions League titles seasons 2019–20 and 2020–21. He made his international debut for Egypt in March 2018 in a friendly match. He was selected as the starting goalkeeper for their squad at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, playing in their opening two matches. Club career El-Shenawy began his career in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Al Ahly SC
Al-Ahly Sporting Club (), commonly known as Al-Ahly, is an List of football clubs in Egypt, Egyptian professional sports club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional Association football, football team which currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest tier in the Egyptian football league system. The club is renowned for its consistent success at both domestic and continental levels, regularly contending in Confederation of African Football, CAF tournaments. Founded on 24 April 1907 by Omar Lotfy and cofounded by Yahia Baher, Al-Ahly has a record of 45 Egyptian Premier League titles, 39 Egypt Cup titles and 15 Egyptian Super Cups. Al-Ahly is List of football clubs by competitive honours won, the most successful club in Confederation of African Football, Africa. In international competitions, Al-Ahly has won a record 12 CAF Champions League titles, 1 CAF Confederation Cup, a record of 8 CAF Super Cups, a record of 4 African Cup Winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Percy Tau
Percy Muzi Tau (born 13 May 1994) is a South African professional footballer who plays as a forward for Qatar Stars League side Qatar SC and the South Africa national team. Tau began his footballing career with Premier Soccer League side Mamelodi Sundowns where he made 100 appearances either side of a loan to Witbank Spurs. During his time with Sundowns, he won the league title twice and the CAF Champions League once and was named Footballer of the Year and joint- top-goalscorer in his final season with the club. Tau joined Brighton & Hove Albion in 2018 but, due to work-permit complications, was loaned out to Belgian side Union SG with whom he won the Proximus League Player of the Season award. His form earned him a short-term move to Club Brugge, where he won a league winners' medal the following season, before being loaned out for a third consecutive season when he signed for rivals Anderlecht in 2020. Tau signed for Egyptian Premier League side Al Ahly in 2021 on a tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mamelodi Sundowns F
Mamelodi is a township (South Africa), township northeast of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. A part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, it was set up by the then apartheid government in 1953. Etymology"Mamelodi" is the name derived from the Sepedi word with the prefix being "ma" meaning mother, and the suffix "melodi" meaning melodies. Its meaning can be translated to mean ''Mother of Melodies''. History The township was established when 16 houses were built on the farm Vlakfontein in June 1953 and later the name changed to Mamelodi. The Group Areas Act designated Mamelodi as a blacks-only area, though this became moot with the fall of Apartheid in 1994. In the 1960s black citizens were forcefully removed from the suburb of Lady Selbourne in Pretoria to Mamelodi, Ga-Rankuwa and Atteridgeville. Anti-apartheid activist Rever ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ronwen Williams
Ronwen Hayden Williams (born 21 January 1992) is a South African professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Premier Soccer League club Mamelodi Sundowns F.C., Mamelodi Sundowns and Captain (association football), captains the South Africa national soccer team, South Africa national team. He was ranked the ninth best goalkeeper in the world at the 2024 Ballon d'Or. Club career Early career Williams spent part of his youth career with Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur. SuperSport United Williams joined SuperSport United F.C., SuperSport United as a youth player in 2004. He made his debut in the CAF Champions League in January 2012 against Matlama FC, and in the Premier Soccer League, PSL was four months later against Free State Stars F.C., Free State Stars. He kept clean sheets in both games. Mamelodi Sundowns On 21 July 2022, Williams signed with Mamelodi Sundowns F.C., Mame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rivers Angels F
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of its course if it runs out of water, or only flow during certain seasons. Rivers are regulated by the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Water first enters rivers through precipitation, whether from rainfall, the Runoff (hydrology), runoff of water down a slope, the melting of glaciers or snow, or seepage from aquifers beneath the surface of the Earth. Rivers flow in channeled watercourses and merge in confluences to form drainage basins, or catchments, areas where surface water eventually flows to a common outlet. Rivers have a great effect on the landscape around them. They may regularly overflow their Bank (geography), banks and flood the surrounding area, spreading nutrients to the surrounding area. Sedime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Asisat Oshoala
Asisat Lamina Oshoala (born 9 October 1994) is a Nigerian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Bay FC and the Nigeria women's national football team, Nigeria national team. She is widely regarded as one of the best female players in Women's association football, women's football of her generation. She is one of the most celebrated African female footballers of all time, having won African Women's Footballer of the Year a record six times. Oshoala previously played for English clubs Arsenal W.F.C., Arsenal and Liverpool F.C. Women, Liverpool, Chinese club Dalian W.F.C., Dalian, and Nigerian clubs Rivers Angels and FC Robo. She won the 2015 FA Women's Cup Final, 2015 FA Women's Cup with Arsenal; two league championships and a cup title with Dalian; and the 2019–20 Copa de la Reina de Fútbol, 2019–20 Copa de la Reina and 2019–20 Supercopa de España Femenina with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hasaacas Ladies F
Sekondi Hasaacas FC is a Ghanaian professional association football club based in Sekondi-Takoradi. The club won the Ghana Premier League in 1977 and is currently participating in the Division One League following relegation from the 2015-16 Ghana Premier League. The side is the most followed football club in the Western Region, a region with a population of almost four million, and is nicknamed Hasmal, which comes with the response 'We Go Doo'. The support base of the club is referred to as Council and is the only club that has found its own way of celebrating when a goal is scored by replacing the popular shout of ' with '. History The club was formed in 1931 and was previously a member of the Ghana Telecom Premier League. After twenty years in the Globacom Premier League, the club was relegated to the Poly Tank Division One League in 2010. Affectionately referred to as the 'Giants of the West', an accolade it acquired after being the only Ghanaian team to hold Fortun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Evelyn Badu
Evelyn Badu (born 11 September 2002) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Première Ligue club Fleury and the Ghana national team. She previously played for Norwegian club Avaldsnes IL. Club career Badu has played for Hasaacas Ladies in Ghana, appearing at the 2021 CAF Women's Champions League final tournament. She moved to Norwegian club Avaldsnes IL for the 2022 season. In March 2024, French club FC Fleury 91 announced the signing of Evelyn Badu, midway into the 2023–24 season. International career Badu was part of the Ghana squad that competed in the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, but she did not play any matches. She capped at senior level during the 2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (third round). International goals :''Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first. Honours Hasaacas Ladies * Ghana Women's Premier League (GWPL): 2020–21 * Ghana Women's Special Competition: 2019 * Ghana Women's FA Cup: 2021 * WAFU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
