By the Confederation Africaine de Football. Any African player is eligible.
Top 10
1. El-Hadji DIOUF 93 pts Senegal Liverpool FC (Eng)
2. Papa Bouba DIOP 46 " Senegal RC Lens (Fra)
3. Ahmed HOSSAM 42 " Egypt Ajax (Hol) / Celta Vigo (Esp)
4. Khalilou FADIGA 41 " Senegal AJ Auxerre (Fra)
5. Lauren ETAME MAYER 35 " Cameroon Arsenal (Eng)
6. Henri CAMARA 20 " Senegal Sedan (Fra)
7. Julius AGHAHOWA 19 " Nigeria Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukr)
Hatem TRABELSI 19 " Tunisia Ajax Amsterdam (Hol)
9. Salif DIAO 17 " Senegal Liverpool FC (Eng)
10. Seydou KEITA 16 " Mali Lorient (Fra) / RC Lens (Fra)
Etoile D’Or (African Player of the Year) 2002
By magazine Afrique Football. Any player from an African national team
is eligible. There are 55 voters: 54 sports journalists from each African
country (including Reunion and Comores that are not members of either
FIFA or CAF) plus the director of Afrique Football. Each one choses three
players: 5 points for the first, 3 points for the second and 1 point for
the third.
1. El-Hadji DIOUF 186 pts Senegal Liverpool FC (Eng)
2. Pape Bouba DIOP 64 " Senegal RC Lens (Fra)
3. Samuel ETO’O 39 " Cameroon Real Mallorca (Spa)
4. Khalilou FADIGA 32 " Senegal AJ Auxerre (Fra)
5. Salif DIAO 21 " Senegal Liverpool FC (Eng)
6. Patrick MBOMA 17 " Cameroon Al Ittihad (KSA)
7. Tony SILVA 16 " Senegal AS Monaco (Fra)
8. Rigobert SONG 14 " Cameroon RC Lens (Fra)
9. Henri CAMARA 8 " Senegal CS Sedan (Fra)
Ferdinand COLY 8 " Senegal Birmingham City (Eng)
Nwankwo KANU 8 " Nigeria Arsenal (Eng)
12. Julius AGHAHOWA 7 " Nigeria Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukr)
13. Ahmed HOSSAM "MEDO" 6 " Egypt Ajax Amsterdam (Hol)
Benjani MWARUWARI 6 " Zimbabwe AJ Auxerre (Fra)
15. Lauren ETAME MAYER 5 " Cameroon Arsenal (Eng)
16. Ibrahima BAKAYOKO 4 " Ivory Coast Olympique Marseille (Fra)
Alioum BOUKAR 4 " Cameroon Istanbulspor (Tur)
Nourredine NAYBET 4 " Morocco Deportivo La Coruna (Spa)
Geremi NJITAP 4 " Cameroon Middlesbrough (Eng)
20. Hicham ABOUCHEROUANE 3 " Morocco Raja Casablanca (Mor)
Aliou CISSE 3 " Senegal Birmingham City (Eng)
Hossam HASSAN 3 " Egypt Zamalek (Egy)
Mohamed KALLON 3 " Sierra Leone Inter Milan (Ita)
Emmanuel MANTORRAS 3 " Angola Benfica (Por)
Bennedict McCARTHY 3 " South Africa Celta Vigo (Spa)
Salomon OLEMBE 3 " Cameroon Olympique Marseille (Fra)
Hatem TRABELSI 3 " Tunisia Ajax Amsterdam (Hol)
John UTAKA 3 " Nigeria RC Lens (Fra)
29. Sibusiso ZUMA 2 " South Africa FC Copenhague (Den)
30. Emmanuel ADEBAYOR 1 " Togo FC Metz (Fra)
Tijani BABANGIDA 1 " Nigeria ??
Selim BENACHOUR 1 " Tunisia Paris Saint-Germain (Fra)
Seydou KEITA 1 " Mali RC Lens (Fra)
Samuel KUFFOUR 1 " Ghana Bayern Munich (Ger)
Hector Ramon OBUL 1 " Equatorial Guinea Deportivo Mongomo (EqG)
Augustine OKOCHA 1 " Nigeria Bolton Wanderers (Eng)
Lucas RADEBE 1 " South Africa Leeds United (Eng)
With thanks to Erik Garin
Source for Etoile d'Or: Afrique Football # 34
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