Enyeama, Musa shortlisted for African Footballer of the Year Award

Nigeria duo Vincent Enyeama and Ahmed Musa has been shortlisted for the 2015 CAF African Footballer of the Year Award.

Current Super Eagles skipper, Musa is joined by his predecessor, Enyeama as the only two Nigerians to make the 37-man list released on Sunday by the continent’s soccer ruling body.

Musa continued from where he left out last season with seven goals in 13 appearances for Russian Champions, CSKA Moscow this term- making him the top goal-scorer in the League.

While Enyeama has built a reputation for himself as probably the best goalkeeper on the continent and one of the very best in the French Ligue 1.

The 33-year-old has kept five clean sheets thus far for Lille - conceding only once at home to defending champions, Paris Saint German in the League opener on August 7.

However, there were no place for record breaking Nigeria duo, Obafemi Martins and Odion Ighalo on the shortlist.

Martins finished the 2014/15 season with 17 goals and 13 assists, a joint-club record held with Mauro Rosales - as well being named in the MLS Best XI and winning the Goal of the Year.

Ighalo on the hand scored over 20 goals to earn Watford promotion to the Premier League - 22 goals in 2015 alone, making him the top scorer in all English top tier.

The list of nominees released by CAF is dominated by Algeria with six representatives followed by Ivory Coast with four, while Ghana has just two contigents.
Popular names such as Yaya Toure, Gervinho, Serge Aurrier (Ivory Coast), Andre Ayew, Christian Atsu  (Ghana),  Mame Biram Diouf, Sadio Mane (Senegal), Mehdi Benatia (Morocco) and Mohamed Salah (Egypt) were nominated.

Others are Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon), Yacine Brahimi, Riyad Mahrez (Algeria)
 Seydou Keita (Mali), Stephane Mbia (Cameroon), Yannick Bolasie (Congo DR) and Victor Wanyama (Kenya)

Meanwhile, the present 37-man list will be pruned down to 10 by next month before it is further reduced to five and then the final three before the award ceremony is held.

Toure has won the prestigious award four times including in the last three years consecutively.