Tout Puissant Mazembe

TP Mazembe striker Mbwana Aly SAMATTA was voted best player based in Africa. That is the verdict of the evening Glo CAF Awards rewarding the best players who shone on the continent in 2015. A distinction he receives for the first time. In this pantheon where the club displayed its players who distinguished themselves in Africa, the photo of Mbwana Aly SAMATTA joins alongside TSHINEM MBWANGA (1973) and Trésor MPUTU MABI (2009).

The exceptional performance of the center forward of TPM thus not escape the jury that awarded the meteoric rise of the Tanzanian scorer. Brilliant in the Champion’s League with 7 goals, the native of Dar-Es-Salaam has established himself as a key player in the attack of the Ravens and the Tanzanian selection. The scorer of Ravens succeeds Firmin MUBELE in the ranking of best player based in Africa.

A trophy also for KIDIABA behind Samagoal

The great Robert KIDIABA, absent in the Japanese campaign, has logically finished second in the ranking of best player playing in Africa. With its high level of performance with the Leopards of the DRC (3rd AFCON Equatorial Guinea) and again with his TPM where he won the CAF Champion’s League, KIDIABA showed he had talent and character. It’s spectacular saves and often decisive allowed the goalkeeper to be ranked in the wake of Samagoal and bring back a trophy in Lubumbashi.

According to the ranking of CAF, Mbwana SAMATTA got 127 votes before KIDIABA 88 votes. Baghdad BOUMEDJAH of Etoile du Sahel reached the 3rd place with 63 votes.

The eleven ideal African

The CAF also published the eleven ideal of African players in which KIDIABA and SAMATTA and are retained in good company: KIDIABA (DR Congo) – AURIER (Ivory Coast), ABDENNOUR (Tunisia), MEFTAH (Algeria) – AYEW (Ghana), TOURE (Ivory Coast), MANE (Senegal), Yacine BRAHIMI (Algeria) – SAMATTA (Tanzania), AUBAMEYANG (Gabon), BOUNEDJAH (Algeria).

Finally, Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG, from Gabon in Borussia Dortmund, was elected Best African Player of the Year before Yaya TOURE from Ivory Coast, already crowned four times, and the Ghanaian André AYEW.