Salis Abdul Samed Gets Big Nomination : On 30th May 2023 , the winner of the 2022/23 Marc-Vivien Foé award will be known and it can be Ghana midfielder Salis Abdul Samed of RC Lens who has had an exceptional season in the Ligue 1 this season.

Andre Ayew is the only Ghanaian footballer to win the award.

The award in honor of the former Cameroon , Lens and Lyon midfielder , is given to the best African footballer in Ligue 1.

The eleven nominees were revealed on Monday. Also on the list are PSG defender Hakimi Achraf Hakimi and Lens teammate of Salis , Seko Fofana who is the defending champion of the award.

THE COMPLETE LIST OF THE 11 NOMINEES :

Yunis Abdelhamid (Morocco / Stade de Reims)

Mama Baldé (Guinea-Bissau / ESTAC Troyes)

Mohamed Camara (Mali / AS Monaco)

Habib Diallo (Senegal / RC Strasbourg Alsace)

Seko Fofana (Ivory Coast / RC Lens)

Achraf Hakimi (Morocco / Paris Saint-Germain)

Chancel Mbemba (DRC / Olympique de Marseille)

Terem Moffi (Nigeria / OGC Nice)

Marshall Munetsi (Zimbabwe / Stade de Reims)

Salis Abdul Samed (Ghana / RC Lens)

Hamari Traoré (Mali / Stade Rennais)

The award started in 2009 as Marouane Chamakh of Morocco and Bordeaux won the inaugural title. The following two seasons Gervinho of Ivory Coast and Lille Metropole won it in 2010 and 2011.

In 2012 , the award went to Younès Belhanda of Morocco and Montpellier. In 2013 it was Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s turn to win it as a Saint – Etienne player.

Past Winners of Prix Marc-Vivien Foé : 

2009 (Morocco) Marouane Chamakh , Bordeaux

2010 (Ivory Coast) Gervinho ,  Lille

2011 (Ivory Coast ) Gervinho , Lille

2012 (Morocco) Younès Belhanda , Montpellier

2013 (Gabon ) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang , Saint-Étienne

2014 (Nigeria ) Vincent Enyeama , Lille

2015 (Ghana) André Ayew , Marseille

2016 (Morocco) Sofiane Boufal , Lille

2017 (Ivory Coast) Jean Michaël Seri , Nice

2018 (Cameroon ) Karl Toko Ekambi ,  Angers

2019 (Ivory Coast) Nicolas Pépé , Lille

2020 (Nigeria) Victor Osimhen ,  Lille

2021 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Gaël Kakuta,  Lens

2022 (Ivory Coast)  Seko Fofana , Lens