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Michael Essien wins ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ African Footballer 2006
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Ghanaian football star Michael Essien has won the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s prestigious African
Footballer of the Year award organised by the bbc.co.uk/africanfootball website and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service African sports programme Fast Track.
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More than
12,000 listeners participated in the final vote during the Fast Track
programme.
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The midfielder, who plays for English Premier League club
Chelsea, was the overwhelming winner, with 66% of the vote, ahead of Mohammed
Aboutrika of Egyptian club side El Ahly in second place.
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Essien's Chelsea
colleague Didier Drogba, captain of Ivory Coast, came third.
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The result was broadcast live on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa sports programme, Fast Track,
presented by Piers Edwards, at 17.00 GMT today (Friday).
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Previous winners of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ African Footballer of the Year include Senegal's
El-Hadji Diouf, Egypt's Mohamed Barakat, Sammy Kuffour of Ghana and Nigeria's
Jay Jay Okocha who won the award twice, in 2003 and 2004.
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Notes to Editors
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The final vote was by text message.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service
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