The mother of Cameroonian striker Albert Ebosse who died in disputed circumstances during an Algerian league match last August accepted the award for leading scorer for the 2013/14 campaign in Algiers on Wednesday AFP understands.
Ebosse's mother was visibly emotional and reduced the people at the ceremony to tears. She was quoted as saying: "If that was God's will may he rest in peace. I want to follow him."
No directors from Ebosse's former club JS Kabylie were apparently at the awards.
The circumstances surrounding his death following the 2-1 defeat by USM Algiers on August 23 has been a source of fierce debate.
The official version from the autopsy carried out in Algeria is 25-year-old Ebosse died in hospital from head injuries sustained as he left the pitch under a hail of objects thrown from the stands by angry fans.
He was apparently struck on the head by a sharp projectile, the official report said.
But a second autopsy by a Cameroonian pathologist, carried out at the family's request, refuted the official findings and declared that the player had died as the result of a brutal post-match beating, probably in a dressing room attack.
The latter theory has been hotly denied by the Algerian authorities.
