Yacine Brahimi has been voted BBC African Footballer for the year 2014 ahead of Nigerian Vincent Enyeama, Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Ivorian stars Gervinho and Yaya Toure.
Yacine Brahimi
Yacine Brahimi has been voted BBC African Footballer for the year 2014 ahead of Nigerian Vincent Enyeama, Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Ivorian stars Gervinho and Yaya Toure.
The 24-year-old midfielder becomes the first Algerian to win the award, which is decided by football fans in 207 Fifa-registered countries.
Porto winger Brahimi told BBC Sport: “It’s a big honour for me to receive this wonderful trophy. I owe it to my country, Algeria, and to all the people who voted for me.
“It’s also a trophy for the whole of Africa, because it rewards an African player. So I am really very happy.”
Brahimi was thrilled to have been acclaimed as the best player on the continent for the past year.
“This trophy is going to give me more strength, more desire to work, to get better, to learn so that I can keep having great performances,” Brahimi said