African Football Awards of the Year: Yaya Toure Player of the Year for record 4th consecutive time

Yaya Toure notched 20 goals in leading Manchester City to regain the Premier League title last season

The annual Confederation of African Football Award winners have been named, and Ivory Coast’s Yaya Toure has created history of sorts by bagging the biggest individual award for a record 4th consecutive time. The Manchester City captain edged out competition from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama to be ‘African Player of the Year’ for 2014.

Toure joins Samuel Eto'o as the only players to have won the continent's top individual award four times, but only Toure has done it in successive years, starting from 2011.

"I've been very blessed all these years," Toure said at the ceremony. "I want to thank all the football fans and say 'Thank you Africa'." Toure will lead his country at this month's African Nations Cup finals in Equatorial Guinea.

Congratulations to @YayaToure, CAF African Player of the Year for the fourth successive year! Full story to follow! pic.twitter.com/B3LWyDJkgp

— Manchester City FC (@MCFC) January 8, 2015

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