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Why The Need For This Award?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I didn't know it even existed or had been around so long, ut am not a huge sports fan.
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ sport/0 /footba ll/2445 0345
I don't know enough about these awards to know if there are also Asian, European and other Footballer of the Year Awards - if so that seems equable.
As to why it was founded, not sure.
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I don't know enough about these awards to know if there are also Asian, European and other Footballer of the Year Awards - if so that seems equable.
As to why it was founded, not sure.
why the need for any award?
http:// en.wiki pedia.o rg/wiki /Italia n_Footb aller_o f_the_Y ear
http:// en.wiki pedia.o rg/wiki /Brazil ian_Foo tballer _of_the _Year
http:// en.wiki pedia.o rg/wiki /Footba ller_of _the_Ye ar_in_G ermany
http:// en.wiki pedia.o rg/wiki /Footba ll_Writ ers%27_ Associa tion_Fo otballe r_of_th e_Year
and i'm now bored of looking them up
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/perhaps what I should have asked is "why is the African player of the year award, awarded by our national broadcasting company, and not by Africa's football authority"? /
It isn't aog
the BBC scheme is just one of a number of African footballer awards
/The African Footballer of the Year award, presented to the best African football (soccer) player each year, has been conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1992. An earlier African Footballer of the Year Golden Ball award was given out between 1970 and 1994 by France Football magazine./
This just happens to be a version operated by the BBC
Presumably because they already have extensive involvement in reporting African sport through their World Service broadcasting remit
It isn't aog
the BBC scheme is just one of a number of African footballer awards
/The African Footballer of the Year award, presented to the best African football (soccer) player each year, has been conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1992. An earlier African Footballer of the Year Golden Ball award was given out between 1970 and 1994 by France Football magazine./
This just happens to be a version operated by the BBC
Presumably because they already have extensive involvement in reporting African sport through their World Service broadcasting remit
Gromit
/// They have a European player of the year, so why not an African one? Not sure why you have a problem with it. ///
Oh I see although he plays for Manchester City, at the end of each match he goes home to Africa, because if he lived in Europe he would qualify for European player of the year award?
/// The BBC spends £millions on the World Service broadcasting to Africa. So a prize for a footballer from that continent is entirely appropriate. ///
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/// They have a European player of the year, so why not an African one? Not sure why you have a problem with it. ///
Oh I see although he plays for Manchester City, at the end of each match he goes home to Africa, because if he lived in Europe he would qualify for European player of the year award?
/// The BBC spends £millions on the World Service broadcasting to Africa. So a prize for a footballer from that continent is entirely appropriate. ///
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/Oh I see although he plays for Manchester City, at the end of each match he goes home to Africa/
No
He only goes home to Africa when he is playing for his national side and they have a home fixture
It can't be that hard to understand that different organisations set up Awards for their own purposes and with differing entry criteria
Shock news for aog - there is no central Awards Scheme Allowing and Criteria Coordinating Department
The African football authorities run Player of the Year Awards
The BBC have decided to do their own for their own reasons - if nobody paid it any heed i expect they'd stop. As it is the BBC I expect it carries a lot of prestige and respect
No
He only goes home to Africa when he is playing for his national side and they have a home fixture
It can't be that hard to understand that different organisations set up Awards for their own purposes and with differing entry criteria
Shock news for aog - there is no central Awards Scheme Allowing and Criteria Coordinating Department
The African football authorities run Player of the Year Awards
The BBC have decided to do their own for their own reasons - if nobody paid it any heed i expect they'd stop. As it is the BBC I expect it carries a lot of prestige and respect
Have we missed French Footballer of the Year , an award by France-Football magazine ?
Given the others listed, do you now accept that there is a need for the award, AOG ? If not a need, in strict terms, do you object to it ? Why ?
Or is it now a case of you accepting it but wondering why the BBC promotes or sponsors it? Have you forgotten all those licence dodgers in Africa, you spoke of? There are millions of soccer fans in Africa.
Given the others listed, do you now accept that there is a need for the award, AOG ? If not a need, in strict terms, do you object to it ? Why ?
Or is it now a case of you accepting it but wondering why the BBC promotes or sponsors it? Have you forgotten all those licence dodgers in Africa, you spoke of? There are millions of soccer fans in Africa.