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Yaya Toure wins BBC African Footballer award

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Yaya Toure, the 32-year-old Ivory Coast midfielder has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2015.
He claimed the prize ahead of Andre Ayew, Yacine Brahimi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Sadio Mane.
Toure becomes the third player, after Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha, to receive the award twice.

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