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Ivory Coast and Manchester City midfielder, Yaya Toure, has won a fourth straight CAF African Player of the Year Award for 2014.

At the award ceremony in Lagos, Toure saw off the challenge from Gabon and Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nigeria and Lille goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama to win a fourth title and in the process equaling the record of Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o.

Toure led Manchester City to win the Barclays Premier League title in 2014 and also helped his country qualify for the World Cup in Brazil.

Asisat Oshoala beat compatriot Desire Oparanozie and Cameroon goalkeeper Annette Ngom Ndom to win Africa’s best female player of 2014. She also won the Youth Player of the Year Award.

The 20-year-old Oshoala has now joined former Nigeria players like Mercy Akide and Perpetua Nkwocha to win the award.

ALL THE WINNERS

African Player of the Year

Yaya Toure (Cote d’Ivoire and Manchester City)

African Player of the Year – Based in Africa

Ndombe Mubele (DR Congo and AS Vita)

Women’s Player of the Year

Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and Rivers Angels)

Youth Player of the Year

Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and Rivers Angels)

Most Promising Talent

Yacine Brahimi (Algeria and FC Porto)

Coach of the Year

Kheireddine Madoui (ES Setif)

National Team of the Year

Algeria

Women’s National Team of the Year

Nigeria

Club of the Year

ES Setif

Referee of the Year

Papa Bakary Gassama (Gambia)

African Legend award

Oryx Club (Cameroon) – winners of the maiden edition of CAF Champions League 1964

Stade Malien (Mali) – runner up of the maiden edition of CAF Champion’s League 1964

Platinum Award

Dr Kwame Nkrumah (First President of Ghana)

His Excellency Goodluck Jonthan (President of Nigeria)

CAF Finest XI

Goalkeeper: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria)

Defenders: Jean Kasulula (DR Congo), Mehdi Benatia (Morocco), Stephane Mbia (Cameroon), Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana)

Midfielders: Yaya Toure (Cote d’Ivoire), Yacine Brahimi (Algeria), Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Tunisia), Ahmed Musa (Nigeria)

Forwards: Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)

Substitutes

Rais M’Bolhi (Algeria), Firmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo), Ferdjani Sassi (Tunisia), Yao Kouasi Gervais ‘Gervinho (Cote d’Ivoire), Abdelrahman Fetori (Libya), Akram Djahnit (Algeria), Roger Assale (Cote d’Ivoire)