Ayew replaces Enyeama as top African player in France

Ghana and Marseille midfielder Andre Ayew has been named best African player in France’s Ligue 1.

Ayew, who celebrated his final days with Marseille, beat Ivory Coast’s Max-Alain Gradel (Saint-Etienne) and Tunisia’s Aymen Abdennour (Monaco) to the Marc-Vivien Foe Trophy.

Last year’s winner, Vincent Enyeama, did not make the final three-man shortlist.

Ayew scored 10 goals in 27 appearances this season for the French club he joined in 2007.

The 25-year-old was picked by a jury of journalists and will receive the gong later on Monday.

He was a member of the Ghana side that lost to Ivory Coast 9-8 on penalties in this year’s Africa Cup of Nations final in Equatorial Guinea.

PREVIOUS WINNERS OF MARC-VIVIEN FOE TROPHY

2014: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria/Lille)

2013: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon/Saint-Etienne)

2012: Younes Belhanda (Morocco/Montpellier Herault SC)

2011: Gervinho (Ivory Coast/Lille)

2010: Gervinho (Ivory Coast/Lille)

2009: Marouane Chamakh (Morocco/Bordeaux)