Mamelodi Sundowns and Bafana Bafana star goalkeeper Ronwen Williams has received THREE nominations for the CAF awards.
Williams’ nominations comes as he’s still in the running for the Ballon d’Or’s Yachine Trophy which recognises goalkeepers.
He is the only African goalkeeper nominated for the Machine Trophy, and the first African-based shot-stopper to be nominated.
Now, the 32-year-old has been nominated for CAF Men’s Player of the Year, Goalkeeper of the Year, and Inter-club Player of the Year awards.
His nominations aren’t a surprise to the majority of African football fans given his exploits at both club and national team level.
Williams was instrumental as Bafana Bafana finished third and picked up bronze against all odds at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations tournament.
He was also South Africa’s best goalkeeper for two seasons in a row between 2022 and 2024 with Sundowns.
It is worth mentioning that Williams is the only South African player nominated in this year’s CAF awards.
Meanwhile, his coach at Bafana Bafana, Hugo Broos, made the preliminary list for CAF Men’s Coach of the Year.
Sundowns and Bafana Bafana which Williams starred for, were nominated for Club of the Year and National Team of the Year respectively.
SUNDOWNS STAR NOMINATED THREE TIMES FOR CAF AWARDS – FULL LIST
Player of the Year: Amine Gouiri (Algeria / Rennes), Edmond Tapsoba (Burkina Faso / Bayer Leverkusen), Simon Adingra (Cote d’Ivoire / Brighton & Hove Albion), Chancel Mbemba (DR Congo / Olympique de Marseille), Serhou Guirassy (Guinea / Borussia Dortmund), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco / Paris Saint-Germain), Soufiane Rahimi (Morocco / Al Ain), Ademola Lookman (Nigeria / Atalanta), William Troost-Ekong (Nigeria / Al Kholood), Ronwen Williams (South Africa / Mamelodi Sundowns)
Goalkeeper of the Year: Oussama Benbot (Algeria / USM Alger), Andre Onana (Cameroon / Manchester United), Yahia Fofana (Cote d’Ivoire / Angers SCO), Lionel Mpasi (DR Congo / Rodez AF), Mostafa Shobeir (Egypt / Al Ahly), Djigui Diarra (Mali / Young Africans), Munir El Kajoui (Morocco / RS Berkane), Stanley Nwabali (Nigeria / Chippa United), Ronwen Williams (South Africa / Mamelodi Sundowns), Amanallah Memmiche (Tunisia / Esperance Sportive de Tunis)
Interclub Player of the Year: Oussama Benbot (Algeria / USM Alger), Issoufou Dayo (Burkina Faso / RS Berkane), Ahmed Sayed ‘Zizo’ (Egypt / Zamalek), Hussein El Shahat (Egypt / Al Ahly), Mostafa Shobeir (Egypt / Al Ahly), Abdul Aziz Issah (Ghana / Dreams FC), John Antwi (Ghana / Dreams FC), Amanallah Memmiche (Tunisia / Esperance Sportive de Tunis), Yassine Merriah (Tunisia / Esperance Sportive de Tunis), Ronwen Williams (South Africa / Mamelodi Sundowns)
Coach of the Year: Pedro Goncalves (Angola), Brahima Traore (Burkina Faso), Emerse Fae (Cote d’Ivoire), Sebastien Desabre (DR Congo), Jose Gomes (Zamalek), Marcel Koller (Al Ahly), Chiquinho Conde (Mozambique), Hugo Broos (South Africa), Florent Ibenge (Al Hilal), Kwesi Appiah (Sudan)
Young Player of the Year: Carlos Baleba (Cameroon / Brighton & Hove Albion), Karim Konate (Cote d’Ivoire / Salzburg), Oumar Diakite (Cote d’Ivoire / Reims), Yankuba Minteh (Gambia / Brighton & Hove Albion), Abdul Aziz Issah (Ghana / Dreams FC / Barcelona), Bilal El Khannouss (Morocco / Leicester City), Eliesse Ben Seghir (Morocco / AS Monaco), El Hadji Malick Diouf (Senegal / Slavia Prague), Lamine Camara (Senegal / AS Monaco), Amanallah Memmiche (Tunisia / Esperance Sportive de Tunis)
Club of the Year: Petro Atletico (Angola), TP Mazembe (DR Congo), Al Ahly (Egypt), Zamalek (Egypt), Dreams FC (Ghana), RS Berkane (Morocco), Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa), Simba (Tanzania), Young Africans (Tanzania), Esperance Sportive de Tunis (Tunisia)
National Team of the Year: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda
HOW MANY AWARDS FOR WILLIAMS?
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