The Gabon forward was named African Footballer of the Year on Thursday, ending the Ivorian legend's four-year reign
Africa's national team coaches have cast their votes and elected—by the tiniest margins—Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and not Yaya Toure as 2015's African Footballer of the Year .
The full details of the coaches' voting patterns reveal just how split they were on deciding who should be named the continent's finest.
Yaya picked up 136 votes to Aubameyang's 143—both coming some distance ahead of Andre Ayew in third, who accumulated 112 votes, and miles beyond fourth-placed Yacine Brahimi on 49 points.
This was a vote between goals and gold, between the sheer volume and consistency of a hitman at the top of his game, and a legendary midfielder who achieved a career highlight—and there have been many of those—in 2015.
It's ironic that the year in which Yaya and his fellow faded counterparts of the Cote d'Ivoire's Golden Generation finally ended their Cup of Nations hoodoo, that the man himself relinquished his hold on the continent's greatest individual honour.
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