Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the year

Cote d'Ivoire and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has won the 2011 African Footballer Award. Yaya Touré was born on 13 May 1983 at Sekoura Bouaké in Ivory Coast and playing on Midfielder position. Yaya Touré started his professional football journey in 2000/01 season with ASEC Mimosas (Ivory Coast) - he played there for 1 year. Yaya Touré played for 7 different football clubs from 7 different countries.

Seydou Keita of Mali and Barcelona came second and Andrew Ayew (son of Ghana Legend Abedi Pele) who plays for Ghana and Olympique Marseille of France came out third.
Others who won awards include:
1) Oussama Darragi (Tunisia/Esperance) - African Footballer of the year (Africa base).
2) Perpetual Nkwocha (Nigeria) - African Woman Footballer of the year.
3) Soulemane Coulibaly (Tottenham/Cote d'Ivoire) - Most Promising Talent.
4) Austin J J Okocha (Nigeria) and Mustapha Hadji (Morocco) - Legend award.
5) Cameroon Female National Team (The Lioness) - CAF female team of the year.
Taye Taiwo made the list for African Best Eleven. He was voted the best left full back in Africa.