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Drogba wins African player award (01.03.2007)
Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba has been named the 2006 Caf African Footballer of the Year.
It is the first time Drogba has won the award and, in edging out Samuel Eto`o, he denied Barcelona`s Cameroon striker a record fourth-successive award.
Another Chelsea player, Ghana`s Michael Essien, finished third.
Drogba, 28, captained his country to the 2006 African Nations Cup final and played at the World Cup finals as well as helping Chelsea win the Premiership.
His success comes four days after he scored twice for the Blues to help them beat Arsenal in the Carling Cup final.
Drogba polled 79 votes in the poll of Africa`s 53 national team coaches, ahead of Eto`o with 74 and Essien`s 36.
Eto`o had pipped Drogba to the 2005 award by two votes in the closest race in the award`s 36-year history, with Essien again third.
But the tables were turned this year and Drogba becomes only the third English-based footballer to win the award after Nwankwo Kanu, then of Arsenal, in 1999 and Senegal`s El Hadji Diouf, who was with Liverpool when he took the title in 2002.
Arsenal defenders Emmanuel Eboue and Kolo Toure and Tottenham midfielder Didier Zokora, both Ivory Coast internationals, were named in the 2006 Team of the Year with Chelsea rivals Drogba and Essien the other Premiership stars to feature.
Meanwhile, Marseille defender Taye Taiwo was named Young Player of the Year while Ghana won the Team of the Year award.
Egyptian side Al Ahli were Club of the Year and their coach Manue Jose won the Coach of the Year category.
African club competition Player of the Year was Mohamed Aboutrika, also of Al Ahli while Nigeria`s Cynthia Uwak was Women`s Footballer of the Year.
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The full list of previous winners:
1970: Salif Keita (St Etienne, France and Mali)
1971: Ibrahim Sunday (Asante Kotoko and Ghana)
1972: Cherif Souleymane (Hafia and
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Guinea)
1973: Tshimen Bwanga (TP Mazembe Englebert and Zaire)
1974: Paul Moukila (CARA Brazzaville and Congo)
1975: Ahmed Faras (Mohammedia and Morocco)
1976: Roger Milla (Canon Yaounde and Cameroon)
1977: Tarak Dhiab (Esperance and Tunisia)
1978: Karim Abdoul Razak (Asante Kotoko and Ghana)
1979: Thomas Nkono (Canon Yaounde and Cameroon)
1980: Jean Manga Onguene (Canon Yaounde and Cameroon)
1981: Lakhdar Belloumi (GCR Mascara and Algeria)
1982: Thomas Nkono (Espanyol, Spain and Cameroon)
1983: Mahmoud Al Khatib (Al Ahli and Egypt)
1984: Theophile Abega (Toulouse, France and Cameroon)
1985: Mohamed Timoumi (Royal Armed Forces and Morocco)
1986: Badou Ezaki (Real Mallorca, Spain and Morocco)
1987: Rabah Madjer (FC Porto, Portugal and Algeria)
1988: Kalusha Bwalya (Cercle Bruges, Belgium and Zambia)
1989: George Weah (Monaco, France and Liberia)
1990: Roger Milla (St Denis, Reunion and Cameroon)
1991: Abedi Pele Ayew (Olympique Marseille, France and Ghana)
1992: Abedi Pele Ayew (Olympique Marseille, France and Ghana)
1993: Abedi Pele Ayew (Olympique Lyonnaise, France and Ghana)
1994: George Weah (Paris St Germain, France and Liberia) and Emmanuel Amunike (Sporting Lisbon, Portugal and Nigeria)
1995: George Weah (AC Milan, Italy and Liberia) 1996: Nwankwo Kanu (Inter Milan, Italy and Nigeria)
1997: Victor Ikpeba (Monaco, France and Nigeria)
1998: Mustapha Hadji (Deportivo Coruna, Spain and Morocco)
1999: Nwankwo Kanu (Arsenal, England and Nigeria)
2000: Patrick Mboma (Parma, Italy and Cameroon)
2001: El Hadji Diouf (Rennes, France and Senegal)
2002: El Hadji Diouf (Liverpool, England and Senegal)
2003: Samuel Eto`o (Real Mallorca, Spain and Cameroon)
2004: Samuel Eto`o (Barcelona, Spain and Cameroon)
2005: Samuel Eto`o (Barcelona, Spain and Cameroon)
Note: The award was organised by French soccer magazine `France Football` until 1994, after which the Confederation of African Football instituted a new award.
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