Nairaland Forum

semid4lyfe: No space for Frederick Kanoute, Mustapha Hadji, Joel Tiehi, Odartey Lamptey, Lucas Radebe, Edward Ansah?

And you have Joseph Antoine Belle and Thomas N'kono in the Top 10 whilst players like *Rabha Madjer*, Rashidi Yekini, Kanu Nwankwo, Tony Yeboah etc are ranked between 20 - 30?

Ridiculous!

If I were an editor of a sports paper and I ask you to come up with a ranking of African Greatest Footballers and you give me this, I'll toss it into the bin straight.

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.

aribisala0:
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

Jarus: All rankings I have come across have Okocha and Kanu in top 15, whether from top sports journalists, or football portals or even official CAF ranking

When CAF celebrated 50 few years ago, its official ranking had Kanu as 8, Okocha as 12 and Rashidi at 17

This is more agreeable to me, but I recognize different folks, different perspectives.

chiover: It was done alphabetically

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

CAMNEWTON4PRES: Marc Vivien Foe(Cameroon) midfielder
Omam Biyik(Cameroon) striker
Alioum Boukar(Cameroon) goalkeeper . Only undefeated goalkeeper in Afcon history.

dayokanu: Sagamite No one from the Senegalese team who made the World cup quarter finals? or the Ghanaian team of 2010 Thats the highest thing an African team has achieved at the world cup

Jarus:

Did you 'watch' your own football from 'redio'?

Top 3 ke.

Eto'o, Weah, Drogba, Abedi Pele, Roger Milla and even Essien conveniently rank above Kanu by any standard.

Afam4eva:
Apart from winning the UCL with chelsea even as a fringe player, what's Essien's individual achievements as a footballer?

la furia: where is abu tarika of egypt and alhaly? the list is ok, not easy to bring up such a list, one has to consider club, country, and individual performance.

if u base it on country performance only, eto will be lower in rank compared to abu trika who has a better nations cup performance and george weah wont even make the list.

base on club performance only, some names will surely not make it, mostly the old players.

combining club and country, not easy to come up with the perfect list, george weah wont be 2nd, roger milla wont be top 5.

but on a general same playin feild whether club or country, the list is good

Jarus:

He was the most important player in Lyon's CL run in 2003/2004, getting to S/finals I think. He single-handedly carried Chelsea for 2 seasons, 2005-2007.

And he made the 20-30 man shortlist of WPOY for 5 consecutive years. Could have won African POY if not because of striker role of Eto'o and Drogba.

Feed me more:
Jarus, i disagree with Essien being above Kanu. Haba! For wetin nau?

chucky234: Sagamite must be drinking some cheap Korean alomo bitters to have put together a list as ridiculous as this,Kanu won UEFA Champions league aged 19yrs and was an important player at the then world's best football,Ajax Amsterdam and no African footballer dead or alive has ever achieve that fit.
Drogba was average with Marseille and only made his mark with chelsea,Kanu won CL,world club cup,3 dutch titles and 2 dutch cup with Ajax,UEFA cup with inter milan,2 EPL titles,3 FA cups,2 Carlin cup with Arsenal and 1 FA cups with Porthsmouth.

With Nigeria he won the U17 world at 16 and was the tournament 3rd most outstanding player,2 AFCON silver and 3 bronze,2 times African player of the year,Olympic gold medal,played in 3 world cup.

To me Kanu should be up there behind Eto'o in 2nd place.

dayokanu:

Messi too hasnt won anything for Argentina I doubt there would be any author who wont make him top 3-5 in Argentina.

What did Weah win for Argentina, Giggs for Wales, Shevchenko for Ukraine,

What did Okocha win for Nigeria as top dog? Nothing At least Kanu won the Olympics for Nigeria which is still Nigerias greatest achievement in football till date

Afam4eva:
Apart from winning the UCL with chelsea even as a fringe player, what's Essien's individual achievements as a footballer?

yemmy19:
ℓ̊ can bet it,u ar on drugs,u said Messi has neva won anythng ƒσя Argentina.moreso,Weah for Argentina,Messi won two trophies ƒσя †ђξ Argies,meanwhile Weah is not from Argentina

StarBoard:
So tell us what he has won for Argentina.
Maybe you are the one on drugs.

Jarus: Essien conveniently rank above Kanu by any standard.

Jarus:

Foe was a regular player, not extra-ordinary. His death on pitch only popularized him.

jadakiss213: 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.

FXKing2012:
The author of this list must be very eeeeediotic; no smart individual will concoct such.

kj_hova:

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?

aribisala0:
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

aribisala0:
Way too many Nigerians who are good but this list inly shows the youth and generation bias of its author,

Jarus: All rankings I have come across have Okocha and Kanu in top 15, whether from top sports journalists, or football portals or even official CAF ranking

When CAF celebrated 50 few years ago, its official ranking had Kanu as 8, Okocha as 12 and Rashidi at 17

This is more agreeable to me, but I recognize different folks, different perspectives.

dayokanu:

In Sagamites list I think kanu should make top 10 of African footballers but I doubt Okocha should even make top 20

dayokanu: Sagamite No one from the Senegalese team who made the World cup quarter finals? or the Ghanaian team of 2010 Thats the highest thing an African team has achieved at the world cup

Jarus:

Foe was a regular player, not extra-ordinary. His death on pitch only popularized him.

chucky234: Sagamite must be drinking some cheap Korean alomo bitters to have put together a list as ridiculous as this,Kanu won UEFA Champions league aged 19yrs and was an important player at the then world's best football,Ajax Amsterdam and no African footballer dead or alive has ever achieve that fit.
Drogba was average with Marseille and only made his mark with chelsea,Kanu won CL,world club cup,3 dutch titles and 2 dutch cup with Ajax,UEFA cup with inter milan,2 EPL titles,3 FA cups,2 Carlin cup with Arsenal and 1 FA cups with Porthsmouth.

With Nigeria he won the U17 world at 16 and was the tournament 3rd most outstanding player,2 AFCON silver and 3 bronze,2 times African player of the year,Olympic gold medal,played in 3 world cup.

To me Kanu should be up there behind Eto'o in 2nd place.

Chanchit:

But Abou Trika still deserves to be among the top 10 from any angle you look it from, club or country,

yemmy19: †ђξ Sagamite must be a fool,cos Kanu is supposed to Ђα̲̅v̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣ occupied †ђξ 3rd position.
Ar u a learner.....infact u must be a novice