{"id":30185,"date":"2016-11-10T03:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T03:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/countdown-to-bbc-african-footballer-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2016-11-10T03:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T03:47:34","slug":"countdown-to-bbc-african-footballer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/countdown-to-bbc-african-footballer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to BBC African Footballer of the Year 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{On Saturday the five nominees for the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2016 will be revealed and voting will open.}<\/p>\n<p>The names will be announced in a live show on BBC World TV and BBC World Service radio, starting at 18:00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of African football worldwide will be able to vote via the BBC African football website from 18:50.<\/p>\n<p>Voting will close at 18:00 on Monday, 28 November and the winner revealed live on Focus on Africa TV and radio on Monday 12 December at 17:35.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of former African internationals and football experts will be in attendance at the special show on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Peter Okwoche, the show will include an interview with a former winner of the award, discussion of the 2016 nominees and a review of the year in African football.<\/p>\n<p>And you will also have the chance to watch behind-the-scenes footage on the BBC Africa and BBC Sport Facebook pages and on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport will also be live-tweeting the launch as it happens on BBC Africa and BBC Sport Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Users of social media can stay up to date with the competition via #BBCAFOTY.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16304 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92357082_2-days-to-go-post.jpg\" alt=\"Who will be the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2016?\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{On Saturday the five nominees for the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2016 will be revealed and voting will open.} The names will be announced in a live show on BBC World TV and BBC World Service radio, starting at 18:00 GMT. Fans of African football worldwide will be able to vote via the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30185"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30185"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}