Dakar, Nov 20 (APS) – The Senegalese coach of the Aigles de la Medina (Senegal) women’s Football team, Mbayang Thiam, is preselected in the coach of the year category of the CAF Awards 2024 scheduled for December 16, 2024 at Marrakech, Morocco, APS learned Wednesday from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) made public.
The Senegalese team of Aigles de la Medina is also selected in the club of the year category.
The Confederation of African Football unveiled, on Wednesday, the lists of players preselected for the seven women’s categories of the CAF Awards 2024, rewarding the best African sportswomen of the past season.
Ten players were preselected in each of the seven categories. They are the African player of the year, the interclub player of the year, the goalkeeper of the year, the coach of the year, the national team of the year , Club of the Year and CAF Young Player of the Year.
In the coach of the year category there is a Senegalese woman. This is the coach of the Aigles de la Medina (Senegal), Mbayang Thiam. She led the first Senegalese team to participate in the Women’s Champions League. The team based in the Medina district of Dakar stopped at the group stages. She conceded nine goals without scoring any.
Mbayang Thiam is also the coach of the Senegal women’s national under-20 team, winner of the Union of West African Football Federations (UFOA/A) zone A tournament, in the category, in last May.
The CAF Awards 2024 concern the period from January 2024 to October 2024.
Here are the lists of nominees:
Player of the year: Sandrine Niyonkuru (Burundi / FC Masar, Egypt), Tabitha Chawinga (Malawi / Olympique Lyonnais, France), Temwa Chawinga (Malawi / Kansas City, United States), Sanaa Mssoudy (Morocco / AS FAR), Chiamaka Nnadozie (Nigeria / Paris FC), Rasheedat Ajibade (Nigeria / Atletico Madrid), Jermaine Seoposenwe (South Africa / Monterrey FC, Mexico), Thembi Kgatlana (South Africa / Tigres UANL, Mexico), Barbara Banda (Zambia / Orlando Pride, USA) and Racheal Kundananji (Zambia / Bay FC, USA) .
Goalkeeper of the year: Andile Dlamini (South Africa / Mamelodi Sundowns), Thandeka Ngcobo (South Africa / University of the Western Cape), Cathy Biya (Cameroon / Eclair, Haiti), Fideline Ngoy (DRCongo / TP Mazembe), Habiba Sabry (Egypt / FC Masar), Fatima El Jebraoui (Morocco / Wydad Athletic Club, Morocco), Khadija Er-Rmichi (Morocco / AS FAR), Chiamaka Nnadozie (Nigeria / Paris FC), Monle Oyono (Nigeria / Edo Queens) and Catherine Musonda (Zambia / Indeni Roses)
Interclub Players of the Year: Amogelang Motau (South Africa- University of the Western Cape), Sandrine Niyonkuru (Burundi/FC Masar), Merveille Nanguji (DRC/TP Mazembe), Lacho Flora Marta (DRC/TP Mazembe), Doha El Madani (Morocco/AS), Khadija Er-Rmichi (Morocco/AS), Sanaa Mssoudy (Morocco/AS FAR), Emem Essien (Nigeria/Edo Queens), Monle Oyono (Nigeria/Edo Queens), Shadia Nankya (Uganda/FC Masar)
Young Player of the Year: Nthabiseng Majiya (South Africa/Mamelodi Sundowns), Cathy Biya (Cameroon/Eclair), Naomi Eto (Cameroon/Amazon FAP), Habiba Sabry (Egypt/FC Masar), Stella Nyamekye (Ghana/Dreamz). Ladies), Valerie Nekesa (Kenya / Army Girls), Doha El Madani (Morocco/AS FAR), Lina Mokhtar Jamai (Morocco/Paris Saint-Germain), Chiamaka Okuchukwu (Nigeria/Rivers Angels), Flourish Sabastine (Nigeria/Stade de Reims, France)
Coach of the Year: Hassan Balla Abdousalami (Cameroon U-20), Lamia Boumehdi (TP Mazembe), Ahmed Ramadan (FC Masar), Mildred Cheche (Kenya U-17), Mohamed Amine Alioua (AS FAR), Bankole Olowookere ( Nigeria U-17), Chris Danjuma (Nigeria U-20), Moses Adukwu (Edo). Queens, Mbayang Thiam (Eagles of Medina), Thinasonke Mbuli (University of the Western Cape)
National Team of the Year: Cameroon U20, Kenya U17, Malawi, Morocco, Morocco U20, Nigeria, Nigeria U17, Nigeria U20, South Africa and Zambia
Club of the year: TP Mazembe (DR Congo), FC Masar (Egypt), Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (Ethiopia), AS FAR (Morocco), Edo Queens (Nigeria), Aigles de la Medina (Senegal), Mamelodi Sundowns ( South Africa) and University of the Western Cape (South Africa)
