Gyan was overwhelming choice of fans in the web and text poll by fans of African football who voted for him ahead of his compatriot Andre Ayew, the Ivory Coast pair of Didier Drogba and Yahya Toure and the Cameroon great Samuel Eto’o. He will now jet off to Cairo for the CAF version of the awards confident he can add that to the BBC honour. Gyan has been rewarded in many ways for brilliant 2010 when he was the figurehead for Ghana as they flew aloft the flag of Ghana at the World Cup. He scored three crucial goals against Serbia and Australia that were responsible for Ghana’s four points in the group stages and the goal that took them into the quarter final stage at the expense of the USA. He will later miss the penalty kick that would have earned Ghana a place in the semi finals of the tournament at the expense of Uruguay but that has done little to hide that fact that he has had a fantastic year. The world cup heroics came after he had scored three goals for Ghana at the Nations Cup in Angola that took them to the final of the tournament for the first time since 1992. At club level he hit thirteen goals for Stade Rennes before moving to Sunderland for whom he has scored six goals for far. He is the third Ghanaian after defender Samuel Osei Kuffuor and midfielder Michael Essien to pick up the award.
