{"id":32696,"date":"2018-01-05T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32696"},"modified":"2018-01-05T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:00:27","slug":"salah-fights-off-competition-team-mate-mane-to-win-african-player-of-the-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/salah-fights-off-competition-team-mate-mane-to-win-african-player-of-the-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah fights off competition team-mate Mane to win African Player of the Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been named the 2017 Confederation of African Football Player of the Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old, who has scored 17 Premier League goals this season, helped Egypt reach the World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations final in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He finished ahead of Liverpool team-mate and Senegal winger Sadio Mane.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah\u00a0 &#8211; 625<\/p>\n<p>Sadio Mane 507<\/p>\n<p>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang\u00a0311<\/p>\n<p>Mane and Salah attended the ceremony in Ghana&#8217;s capital Accra,\u00a024 hours before\u00a0Friday&#8217;s FA Cup game against Everton, the latter\u00a0ruled out with injury<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Borussia Dortmund and Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang came third.<\/p>\n<p>Salah was voted\u00a0the BBC African Footballer of the Year\u00a0in December,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been named the 2017 Confederation of African Football Player of the Year. The 25-year-old, who has scored 17 Premier League goals this season, helped Egypt reach the World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations final in 2017. He finished ahead of Liverpool team-mate and Senegal winger Sadio Mane. Mohamed Salah\u00a0 &#8211; 625 Sadio Mane 507 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang\u00a0311 Mane and Salah attended the ceremony in Ghana&#8217;s capital Accra,\u00a024 hours before\u00a0Friday&#8217;s FA Cup game against Everton, the latter\u00a0ruled out with injury. Borussia Dortmund and Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang came third. Salah was voted\u00a0the BBC African Footballer of the Year\u00a0in December,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}