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Edouard Mendy: Senegal and Chelsea keeper confident he 'can win Yashin award'

Chelsea's Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy is confident he can win the Lev Yashin award for Europe's best goalkeeper when the Ballon d'Or gala takes place on Monday night.

The 29-year-old is one of the ten goalkeepers in contention for the prize, with only Paris Saint-Germain's European Championship-winner Gianluigi Donnarumma up for the main Ballon d'Or trophy itself.

Nonetheless, Mendy - who won the Champions League in May - believes he can become the second man to win an award introduced in 2019 by Ballon d'Or organisers.

"Of course I think I can win it," Mendy told BBC Sport Africa.