Today, the Egyptian city of Hurghada will host the annual Confederation of African Football Confederation (CAF) awards ceremony, the most prominent of which is the best player in 2019, amid expectations that it will benefit the Senegalese Sadio Manet, at the expense of the Egyptian Mohamed Salah and the Algerian Riyad Mahrez.
The three are competing for the title of the best player award that Al-Masry has been crowned in the past two years, and if he gets it again, he will become only the third player to be chosen the best after the Cameroonian Samuel Eto'o and Ivory Didier Drogba.
But recent press reports tended to nominate the coronation of Salah's colleague in Liverpool, Senegalese Manet, as the 2019 Player of the Year award, which saw his coronation with the English team the Champions League title for the sixth time in its history, the European Super Cup, and finally the Club World Cup in the edition Hosted by Doha in December.
What increases the likelihood of the coronation of Manet (27 years), after his failure to do so in the past three years when he was chosen from among the three final candidates, are the reports that indicate the absence of Salah and Mahrez from the ceremony scheduled this evening in a tourist resort in the Red Sea city of Hurghada. . The African Union has not officially announced the names of the players present or absent.
The Algerian continental coronation is expected to lead to honoring the coach of the national team, Jamal Belmadi, for the award of the best African coach for 2019, after he led his squad to lift the cup after seven wins in seven games, and an offensive performance that won the praise of the competitors before the fans, and a bench that was not inferior to the two basics.
Belmadi is competing with Tunisian Mouin Chaabani, who led Esperance to victory in the African Champions League for two consecutive seasons and fifth in the World Cup, and Alliou Cisse, who led Senegal to the final of the African Cup of Nations before losing to Algeria.