Moses have been nominated for this
year's BBC African Footballer award
alonside three other Africa's best in the
Eurpean leagues.
Ivory Coast's Yaya Toure is making the
shortlist for the fifth consecutive year,
while Burkina Faso's Jonathan Pitroipa
and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of
Gabon complete the list.
The winner, who will be unveiled on
December 2, will be decided by African
football fans via SMS.
No player on this year's shortlist, drawn
up from votes by 44 journalists across
Africa, has won the BBC award before
and two – Pitroipa and Aubameyang –
are the first nominees from their
respective countries.
Mikel and Moses both helped Nigeria lift
the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations trophy
for the first time in 19 years.
Mikel, 26, also won the Europa League
with Chelsea, while 2013 was the year
he finally scored a goal for the Blues,
that coming in his 185th game.
Goals have flowed more readily for 22-
year-old Moses, the winger hit six for
Chelsea in 2013 before he moved on a
season-long loan to Liverpool, where he
scored on his debut in September.
Toure appears to be the most potent of
the three English Premier League
players on the list. The Ivorian, 30, has
bagged 12 goals so far in 2013 –
including some exquisite free-kicks.
Aubameyang, 24, has been in prolific
form over the past year – ending the
2012-13 season with 19 goals for St-
Etienne, which put him second in the
list of top scorers in the French Ligue 1,
while he also helped them win the
French Cup to claim his first trophy as a
professional.
Those performances earned him a
summer transfer to Champions League
runners-up Borussia Dortmund, and he
has already scored seven goals in 11
games for the German side.
Pitroipa's biggest highlights came on the
international stage as the 27-year-old
winger was named player of the
tournament at the Africa Cup of Nations
in South Africa, helping Burkina Faso
surprise everyone by reaching the final.
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