Morocco’s Boufal wins Foe award

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Lille’s Sofiane Boufal was injured playing on a synthetic surface at Lorient

Morocco and Lille midfielder Sofiane Boufal has been named best African player in France’s Ligue 1.

The 22-year-old beat Algeria and Lyon’s Rachid Ghezzal and Cheikh N’Doye of Senegal and Angers to win the Marc-Vivien Foe Trophy.

The annual award is named after the Cameroon international who died aged 28 of a heart attack in 2003.

Boufal succeeds last year’s winner Andre Ayew of Ghana, who played for …

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