Cameroon and Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto'o has been named African Footballer of the Year a record fourth time.
The 29-year-old pipped first-time finalist Asamoah Gyan of Ghana and two-time winner Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast, the 2009 winner.
The winner from a poll among national coaches on the continent was announced at the annual CAF awards ceremony in Cairo.
Eto'o, who won the most prestigious African football individual honour three years in a row from 2003, was voted the best player at the FIFA Club World Cup won by his Italian team Inter Milan last Sunday, scoring a clinical, close-range second goal in a 3-0 triumph over TP Mazembe from Democratic Republic of Congo - perhaps ironically the first African club to reach the final of the 10-year competition.
Inter are now champions of the world, Europe and Italy and the goals of former Real Madrid, Real Mallorca and Barcelona star Eto'o have played a pivotal role in those successes.
