Two Nigerian players, Ahmed Musa and Vincent Enyeama, are in the rushed to win the 2015 CAF African Footballer of the Year Grant after the twosome were incorporated into the shortlist of 37 players discharged on Sunday by the landmass' soccer decision body.
The two players have been in rankling structure for their separate clubs this term with Musa scoring ten objectives in all rivalries for his Russian club, CSKA Moscow, while Enyeama has kept five clean sheets in six Ligue 1 recreations for his French side Lille who are twelfth on the log.
The rundown of candidates discharged by CAF on Sunday is commanded by Algerian players with six footballers from the North African nation in the squad despite the fact that they neglected to have an effect at the Africa Measure of Countries.
Ivory Coast, who completed top at the competition in Tropical Guinea, have four players in the shortlist with Yaya Toure standing out from the West African nation.
The Ghanaian twosome of Christian Atsu and Andre Ayew likewise made the ritzy shortlist.
Musa and Enyeama were likewise shortlisted a year ago with Enyeama making it to the last shortlist of three.
It is yet to be checked whether both of the two Nigerian players will at last end the long sit tight for the nation as no Nigerian player has won the top prize subsequent to 2000 when Kanu Nwankwo was voted the best on the mainland,
In the interim, the present 37-man rundown will be pruned down to 10 by one month from now before it is further decreased to five and after that the last three preceding the honor function is held.
Yaya Toure has won this prestigious recompense four times incorporating into the last three straight years.