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mekula: no El hadji diouf, oman biyik, cyril makanaky? Pls expand the list to 40 lets see what you'll do with it.

@kabukabu
U drink? abi na Nigeria dem say make you list?

If I expanded the list to 50, Diouf would never dream of being in it.

This is analysis, not some beer parlour "a player is flashy once and he is the greatest ever" analysis.

kabukabu is drinking home-made brew!

@sagamite
Did you use any specific criteria to come up with these players or was did you just pick any player you felt should be there? I'm asking because i see no reason why Elhaji diouf who was a former African best footballer did not make your list and an Essien did. What has Essien done that Diouf has not done? What individual laurel has Essien one in his life apart from sleeping with Nadia Buari?

Sagamite:

Thank you!



You men the way Oruma was very much like Jay Jay and can be compared to Zidane?

Okalla was poor man's N'kono?

His generation didn't make it to Europe but N'Kono and Bell did?

I am not saying he is not a good keeper, but in the top 30? Give me a break.

Who is he going to replace?

I would have loved to leave Ernest Okonkwo to pass the judgment if he is alive, but Tolu Fatoyinbo would equally do. Those commentators saw these men in action over a dozen times . The sight of Okalla between the goal- posts terrified many strickers to hell, literally !

Afam4eva: @sagamite
Did you use any specific criteria to come up with these players or was did you just pick any player you felt should be there?

My normal football criteria:

1) Abilities
2) Level the player plays at
3) The player's influence in his team

With special consideration for era and how hard it was to play in Europe.

Players of old days that only played in Africa have to really be outstanding because they were playing with fishermen.

Players of modern age that achieve are achieving against the fittest sportmen in the history of the world.

Nightshift: I would have loved to leave Ernest Okonkwo to pass the judgment if he is alive, but Tolu Fatoyinbo would equally do. Those commentators saw these men in action over a dozen times . The sight of Okalla between the goal- posts terrified many strickers to hell, literally !

Maybe he was using charms on them then because I don't know why he remained in Africa if he was that outstanding.

There used ‎​τ̅o be one patrick mboma whose combination wit eto's used ‎​τ̅o be deadly,sagamite where did u place mboma

Afam4eva: I'm asking because i see no reason why Elhaji diouf who was a former African best footballer did not make your list and an Essien did. What has Essien done that Diouf has not done? What individual laurel has Essien one in his life apart from sleeping with Nadia Buari?

So what if he made African footballer of the year?

Federic Kanoute made African footballer of the year, does that mean he is better than Finidi or Hossam Hassan that never did?

All such one-time shine counts for nothing in my world.

A striker that can't score goals is the greatest?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hadji_Diouf

Only people that know nothing about football, go and line up all those who have won an award and say they are the greatest.

Even Jay Jay that is a midfielder was more prolific than him in scoring goals.

tobounty: There used ‎​τ̅o be one patrick mboma whose combination wit eto's used ‎​τ̅o be deadly,sagamite where did u place mboma

Nowhere in the top 50.

Sagamite:

Maybe he was using charms on them then because I don't know why he remained in Africa if he was that outstanding.

Emmanuel Okalla is over 2m tall with fast reflexes .

Nightshift: Emmanuel Okalla is over 2m tall with fast reflexes .

Yep. And so?

Nightshift: Emmanuel Okalla is over 2m tall with fast reflexes .

If he likes let me be over 3ft tall that still does not change the fact that they were no strikers quaking in their boots at the thought of facing okoro

i'm suprised that said owairan did not make the list

It's difficult to knock off the first three. The rest is a fair game. Kanu's position at number four can equally be justified.

shadrach77: i'm suprised that said owairan did not make the list

And Neymar paapaa.

Prof Corruption: It's difficult to knock off the first three. The rest is a fair game. Kanu's position at number four can equally be justified.

It can not be justified, if can be benchified.

Kanu vs Abedi Pele? ...............................................You are not serious?

Kanu cannot even smell Rabah Madjer.

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Why are people tearing their pants for nothing. This is Sagamite wish list,haha! If you are not comfortable with it,create your own thread,and make your own wish list,haba! *grins*

I agree with most of the position except a few.

A very sensible list if you ask me

The Nigerians on that list I disagree with their positions. The best Nigeria should be the one who was ranked highest in the world by FIFA, who won 2 African footballer of the year awards, Won several club titles

Nigerian ranking should be

KANU Nwankwo
Finidi
Mikel
Yekini
Taribo
Oliseh
Amuneke
Okocha
Amokachi
Ikpeba

Hakim27: Okocha should be top 3.....that is a true footballer

U r insane for saying that.

ifyalways: Essien on that list makes the whole thead smell m.oronic

A Ghanaian would place Muntari ahead of Essien. I'm so trying to think of an "Essien moment/days" in African Footie history. No luck.

U must be having ur MENSTRUAL PERIOD for reasoning like that.

Sagamite:

Never let me hear you talk about football again in your life!

Amunike, Oliseh, Diouf Ikpeba etc being compared to Essien.

Don't ever open your mouth to talk about football again.

true.but why cant u compare Oliseh wv Essien?he was probably better than the Ghanian.played for top clubs and was highly sought after.anyways its ur opinion.

kabukabu50:

1)Austin Okocha
2)George Weah
3)Hossan Hassan
4)Ben Iroha
5)Abedi Pele
6)Finidi George
7)Didier Drogba
Samuel Eto
9)Roger Milla
10)Mustafa Hadji
11)Segun Odegbami
12)Uche Okechukwu
13)Kalusha Bwayla
14)Jules Bocande
15)Tony Yeboah
16)Mutiu Adepoju
17)Kanu Nwankwo
18)Muda Lawal
19)Kolo toure
20)Obafemi Martins
21)Victor Ikpeba
22)Oman Biyik
23)Austin Eguavoen
24)Rashidi Yekini
25)Taribo West
26)Sunday Oliseh
27)titi Camara
28)Michael Essien
29)Robert Song
30)Emmanuel amunike

BTW Fashy keepers.This is a authentic all time list to end all lists.

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Prof Corruption: I have problem with the ranking. Kanu should be among the top three.

Kanu shouldn't be!

Afam4eva:
Did George weah achieve anything as a Liberian player?

he won African footballer of the yr in 1989

ITS ETO'O not ETO

CAMEROONPRIDE: ITS ETO'O not ETO

all join.....

@sagamite, save yourself the burden of defending your choices and expand the list to 50 or 100 greats. Truth is Africa had and still has a lot of talented footballers and another truth is when the list is that long, we all won't have time to go through the names & rankings with a fine tooth comb. So with little or no arguments, you win and we win too.

Sagamite: 1. Samuel Etoo (Cameroun) - Striker
2. George Weah (Liberia) - Striker
3. Didier Drogba (CIV) - Striker
4. Roger Milla (Cameroun) - Striker
5. Salif Keïta (Mali) - Striker
6. Abedi Pele (Ghana) - Midfielder
7. Thomas N'kono (Cameroun) - Goalkeeper
8. Michael Essien (Ghana) - Midfielder
9. Mahmoud El-Khatib (Egypt) - Striker
10. Joseph-Antoine Bell (Cameroun) - Goalkeeper
11. Hossam Hassan (Egypt) - Striker
12. Samuel Kuffour (Ghana) - Defender
13. Bruce Grobbelaar (Zimbabwe) - Goalkeeper
14. Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia) - Midfielder
15. Laurent Pokou (CIV) - Striker
16. Godfrey Chitalu (Zambia) - Striker
17. Yaya Toure (CIV) - Midfielder
18. Jacques Songo'o (Cameroun) - Goalkeeper
19. Rabah Madjer (Algeria) - Striker
20. Jay Jay Okocha (Nigeria) - Midfielder
21. Bwanga Tshimen (Zaire) - Defender
22. Tony Yeboah (Ghana) - Striker
23. Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria) - Striker
24. Carlos Kameni (Cameroun) - Goalkeeper
25. Kanu Nwankwo (Nigeria) - Striker
26. Lakhdar Belloumi (Algeria) - Midfielder
27. Rigobert Song (Cameroun) - Defender
28. Segun Odegbami (Nigeria) - Midfielder
29. Finidi George (Nigeria) - Midfielder
30. Noureddine Naybet(Morroco) - Defender

The author of this list must be very eeeeediotic; no smart individual will concoct such.

Sagamite:

My normal football criteria:

With special consideration for era and how hard it was to play in Europe.

Players of old days that only played in Africa have to really be outstanding because they were playing with fishermen.

Players of modern age that achieve are achieving against the fittest sportmen in the history of the world.

Sadly, you sound like a Europhile or worse still an Afrophobe. Referencing many fine Africans that played the Afcons & Sekur Toure cups of the 60's, 70's & 80's as fishermen is poor understand of the past.

Simply put, the crave for playing in Europe (as we experience today) was non-existent in those days! The likes of Chukwu, Odegbami or Okalla ended there career in Africa by choice.

Even today, Africa's finest footballer (my opinion, of course), Mo Abu Terika, played his entire career at home in Egypt. Would that place him below Brown Ideye in your opinion?

Okalla is a Cameroonian who migrated in Naija

Afam4eva: What did Finidi George do for the super eagles that other players did not do? Same with Segun Odegbami.

Is the list in order of how great the players were?

What did Kanu do for Super Eagles Did he win Anything ? At least the others did{Okocha from the bench)
What did George Weah do for Liberia

It says greatest AFRICAN footballers and so National Team is not the only Yardstick.
Kanu should be on the list period.But he won Nothing win super Eagles

kj_hova: ...

....your signature: thank God you are not God cos the world would not have even existed if u were God.

Thunder fire whoever said yakubu should make this list like WTH Yakubu?

kabukabu50:

1)Austin Okocha
2)George Weah
3)Hossan Hassan
4)Ben Iroha
5)Abedi Pele
6)Finidi George
7)Didier Drogba
Samuel Eto
9)Roger Milla
10)Mustafa Hadji
11)Segun Odegbami
12)Uche Okechukwu
13)Kalusha Bwayla
14)Jules Bocande
15)Tony Yeboah
16)Mutiu Adepoju
17)Kanu Nwankwo
18)Muda Lawal
19)Kolo toure
20)Obafemi Martins
21)Victor Ikpeba
22)Oman Biyik
23)Austin Eguavoen
24)Rashidi Yekini
25)Taribo West
26)Sunday Oliseh
27)titi Camara
28)Michael Essien
29)Robert Song
30)Emmanuel amunike

BTW Fashy keepers.This is a authentic all time list to end all lists.

Way too many Nigerians who are good but this list inly shows the youth and generation bias of its author,