Ahmed Musa Nominated For Player Of The Week

Top Russian football portal championat.com has shortlisted Nigeria international Ahmed Musa for the best player in the Russian Premier League for the 20th round of matches.

To win the award, the CSKA Moscow striker will compete with Ari, Salvatore Bocchetti and Yura Movsisyan from Spartak Moscow, Balazs Dzsudzsak and Alexander Kokorin of Dynamo Moscow, Roman Eremenko and Sergey Ryzhikov of  Rubin Kazan, Araz Ozbiliz of Kuban, Stipe Pletikosa of FC Rostov and teammate Vagner Love.

Readers of championat.com will choose Russia's Player of the Week for the last round of games. Points will be awarded to the best two players nominated by readers in the overall voting.

Musa, 20, netted his ninth goal of the season in CSKA Moscow's 2-0 win over Krylya Sovetov last weekend. By the way, that strike is one of five goals nominated for Goal of the Week in the championship.