Liverpool and Egypt star, Mohamed Salah, has again won the 2018 Confederation of African Football Player of the Year.
While the Salah is keeping the coveted award for the second time in a row, Nigeria’s Asisat Oshoala has been dethroned as the best female player on the continent
Salah, 26, beat Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane of Senegal and Arsenal and Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to the title.
He received the award at a ceremony in Senegal on Tuesday.
“I have dreamt of winning this award since I was a child and now I have done so twice in a row,” Salah said.
Salah was voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year for the second time in December.
He scored 44 goals for Liverpool during the 2017-18 season, helping the Reds to the Champions League final before scoring twice for Egypt at the World Cup in Russia.
He has scored 16 goals in 29 appearances across all competitions for Liverpool this season.
In the Women category, South Africa’s Thembi Kgatlana was voted as African Women’s Player of the Year 2018 ahead of the Nigerian duo of Assisat Oshoala and Francisca Ordega.
Oshoala was hoping to score a fourth win after her first three victories in 2014, 2016, and 2017 but that was not to be in Dakar on Tuesday night.
The Super Falcons, however, won the first award of the night; as they were voted as the Best National Women Team for the Year.
CAF, however announced that Egypt would host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.