Ivory Coast international, Yaya Toure, is displeased that he has failed to win the African Footballer of the Year for a fifth successive year.
The Manchester City midfielder was beaten to the biggest individual African prize by Gabonese international, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, by just seven votes and the Ivorian is “disappointed.”
The Ivorian said he would accept losing the individual honour he has won four consecutive times rather than “complain.”
Despite the disappointment of finishing second in the African Footballer of the Year award, the 32-year-old congratulated Aubameyang for clinching the gong and believes the Gabonese did “brilliantly” in the year under review.
“I’m quite disappointed, but I don’t want to complain too much. I just want to give credit to Aubameyang – you’ve been doing brilliantly well this year,” said Toure.
The former FC Barcelona man has won the African Footballer of the Year in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
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