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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24103693" data-attributes="member: 158020">Salah retains CAF African Player of  the Year gong   <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/01/08/21/8284538-0-image-a-18_1546982655413.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Mohamed Salah has been named African Player of the Year for the second time  in succession.Salah defended his crown after scoring 44 goals for Liverpool and  Egypt in 2018.He finished as the 2017-18 Premier League Golden Boot winner with  32 goals.   Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane and Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang also  made the three-man shortlist for the award.   The nominees for the main award made up the front three in CAF's Africa Best  XI of the year, with Guinea's Naby Keita providing further Liverpool  representation in a midfield completed by Atletico Madrid and Ghana's Thomas  Partey and Manchester City and Algeria's Riyad Mahrez.   The back-four was split between Serie A and the Premier League, with Juventus  and Morocco's Mehdi Benatia alongside Napoli's Kalidou Koulibaly – an  international colleague of Mane's.    Ivory Coast duo Serge Aurier and Eric Bailly won approval thanks, in part, to  their displays for Tottenham and Manchester United, while Uganda's Denis Onyango  of South African club Mamelodi Sundowns was recognised as Africa's best  goalkeeper.Salah's second Player of the Year prize means that Liverpool players  have now won the award on a total of three occasions.   El-Hadji Diouf was the previous Red to receive the honour prior to Salah,  lifting the CAF award in 2002 in recognition of his exploits at that year's  World Cup with Senegal.Yaya Toure and Samuel Eto'o, meanwhile, remain the  all-time most successful players in the continent, having won Player of the Year  four times each.The Ivorian managed the feat in four consecutive years between  2011 and 2014, while Eto'o won the prize in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2010.</blockquote>

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