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| Kuffour voted as Africa''s 28th best |
1/13/2007 |
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Accra(Gh)- 13 January 2007 -Ghana defender, Samuel Osei Kuffour has been
voted Africa’s 28th best player by fans in a poll conducted by the
continent’s sport body, the Confederation of African Football.
Kuffour, who plays for Italy’s Livorno has had an illustrious career since
beginning his trade as a junior national team player with Ghana’s Black
Starlets in 1991.
He won the UEFA Champions League 2000-01 with Bayern of Munich and went on
to win for the German champions, the Super Cup when he grabbed the match
winner in Tokyo.
The Confederation of African Football – CAF, selected a large poll of
players to be nominated for the best African player of the last 50 years
as the sport body celebrates its anniversary this year.
CAF picked 200 players who have made an impact on the continent since its
founding in 1957
with the selection based on performances at national and international
level.
Followers of African football were allowed to vote through CAF’s website
ahead of the confederation’s fiftieth anniversary next year.
Twenty Ghanaian stars were included in the Confederation of African
Football’s selected poll of players to be nominated the best African
player of the last 50 years.
And only two members of Ghana’s twenty-man party - Michael Essien and
Samuel Osei Kuffour are currently playing active football on the big
stage.
In accordance with the voting results, names of the best 30 players will
be published on the CAF website, every day, in descending order (starting
from last to first) as from January 9 to February 8, 2007, date marking
the foundation of CAF in 1957 in Khartoum.
Lakhdar Belloumi of Algeria was also voted as the 28th best player.
Cameroon''s Rigobert Song took the 29th position while Nasr El Din Abbas of
Sudan placed 30th. GRi…/
Source - ghanafa.org
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