Enyeama to battle nine others for the 2015 edition of Marc-Vivien Foe award

Tomiwa Babalola

Nigeria's goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama has been shortlist among the best ten African players vying for the RFI - FRANCE 24 Marc-Vivien Foé Award for African player in the French Ligue 1 football championship for the 2014-15 season, it has been announced.

The Super Eagles captain, who reached a century for the 2013 Afcon champions against Uganda in March won the last edition of the award, beating Ivory Coast defender, Serge Aurier, who plays for Toulouse FC and Cameroon international player, Henri Bedimo (Olympique Lyonnais).

Radio RFI and satellite television France 24 – sponsors of the award unveiled the ten players who will be contesting for the awards this year.

Meanwhile, the favourites for this year's edition are Ghana international, Andre Ayew of Marseille, who was a member of the Ghana team that lost to Ivory coast on penalties at the 2015 AFCON championship in Equitorial Guinea, Tunisia’s Aymen Abdennour of Toulouse and Moroccan Nabil Dirar of Monaco are the top on the list.

Cameroon internationals Clinton N’Jie  of Lyon, of Montpellier, Benjamin Moukandjo  of Reims also made the list.

Others are Lorient’s Jordan Ayew,  Idrissa Gueye of Lille, Algeria’s Aissa Mandi of Reims and Max-Alain Gradel of Saint-Etienne completes the list.

The Marc-Vivien Foe Prize is awarded to the best African player of the French Ligue 1 in tribute to the former Cameroon international who died in 2003 during a Fifa Confederations Cup match with the Indomitable Lions at the Stade de Gerland in Lyon, France.

NOMINEES IN FULL

Aymen Abdennour (Monaco, Tunisia)
Jordan Ayew (Lorient, Ghana)
André Ayew (Marseille, Ghana)
Nabil Dirar (Monaco, Morocco
Vincent Enyeama (Lille, Nigeria)
Max-Alain Gradel (Saint-Etienne, Ivory Coast)
Idrissa Gueye (Lille, Senegal)
Aissa Mandi (Reims, Algeria)
Benjamin Moukandjo (Reims, Cameroon)
Clinton N’Jie (Lyon, Cameroon)