Yacine Brahimi beats Vincent Enyeama to C African Footballer of the Year

 Yacine Brahimi

Yacine Brahimi has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2014, BBC reports.

The 24-year-old midfielder becomes the first Algerian to win the award, which is decided by football fans.

After a record number of votes were submitted from fans in 207 Fifa-registered countries, Brahimi came out on top ahead of Nigerian Vincent Enyeama, Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Ivorian pair Gervinho and Yaya Toure. 

Speaking on winning the award, Brahimi says:
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.
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," added Brahimi, who was congratulated in a Tweet by last year's winner Yaya Toure.
 Congratulation to him!

 Photo Credit: Getty Images

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