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Africa’s Richest Football Players

Walter Wilson Nana

A list made public by a Belgian football magazine reveals three top African soccer stars in the top ten of highest paid footballers. They are Ivorian born offensive midfielder; Yaya Toure, who trades his football skills at English Premier League side; Manchester City, the captain of the Indomitable Lions and Inter marks man Samuel Fils Eto’o and another EPL ace Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayor.

 

Sport Foot Magazine writes that in the hit parade of highest paid footballers, Yaya Toure is at the 4th position with a yearly take home package of 10.8 million Euros, Eto’o is at the 5th position with 10.5 million Euros per year while Adebayor closes the top ten list with 8.4 million Euros per year.

From the Sport Foot Magazine list, Cristiano Ronaldo has a salary of 12 million Euros per year, excluding advertising contracts. He is the current highest paid footballer. The Portuguese man is followed by Manchester United’s England striker, Wayne Rooney, who earns 11.5 million Euros a year, while Argentinean, Lionel Messi got 11 million Euros from Barcelona.

In the list of the top 10 you also have the following players with their respective take home packages; Bastian Schweinsteiger of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich with a yearly salary of 9.7 million euros, at the 6th position. There is Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the 7th position with nine million euros per year, at the 8th position is Real Madrid’s Kaka, who takes home nine million euros per year and is tied with Chelsea’s John Terry, 9th position with nine million per year.

Walter is a33-year old Cameroonian living Buea. He studied Journalism and Performing Arts in the University of Buea, Cameroon
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Nigerian Striker Yakubu Ayegbeni to Sign For Leicester City

Yakubu Ayegbeni
Yakubu Ayegbeni

Nyarko Benso

Nigerian and Everton striker Yakubu Ayegbeni is set to complete a loan signing to Leicester City before the end of the transfer season on Wednesday.

Yakuku, 28, will join Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Championship side with a view to a permanent move in the summer.

The Nigerian striker has started only eight games this term.

He has struggled to find his best form following an eight-month lay-off with a Achilles injury in 2008 and 2009.

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Asamoah makes life even more difficult for Obaa Yaa

Asamoah Gyan responds to her would be mistress
Asamoah Gyan responds to his would be mistress

 

On November 30, we reported of a young Ghanaian woman who vowed that unless Black Stars arrow head, Asamoah Gyan marries her, suicide would be the only option.

The lady, Obaa Yaa, has said that she is so crazy in love with the Sunderland ‘hitman’ that no will not be an option.
Obaa Yaa said she’s awestruck by Asamoah’s haircut, skin tone and the excellent skill he exhibits not only on the football field but also on the music scene.

Nobody expected any response from the no nonsense Ghanaian striker. Well, Gyan appeared on a popular TV program, the DENTAA Show, where after a couple of minutes of dance and chat with the hostess, he finally responded to Obaa Yaa.

Obviously, neither the dance, not the response is going to make life any better for Obaa.
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Samuel Eto’o is African footballer of the year

Samuel Eto’o has been named African Footballer of the Year for 2010 ahead of Didier Drogba and Asamoah Gyan.

The three forwards made up the shortlist at the annual Confederation of African Football awards ceremony in Cairo, with the winner being voted for by the coaches and captains of the continent’s 53 national teams

Eto’o came out on top despite enduring a wretched 12 months with Cameroon, who lost all three of their group games at the World Cup and disappointed at the African Cup of Nations.

He was in stunning form at club level though, helping Inter Milan win a spectacular treble last season and then clinch Club World Cup glory earlier this month.

Samuel Eto'o, 2010 African Footballer of the Year
Samuel Eto'o, 2010 African Footballer of the Year

It is the fourth time in his career that Eto’o, 29, has claimed the prize after winning three times in a row from 2003.

TP Mazembe, the four-time African Champions League winners who stunned Internacional of Brazil 2-0 in the United Arab Emirates last week before finishing runners-up to Inter Milan, were named Club of the Year.

Milovan Rajevac, the humble Serbian coach who made 2010 such a memorable year for Ghana, took the Coach of the Year award. He resigned after the World Cup to join Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad Jeddah.

Other award winners included Al-Ahly and Egypt midfielder Ahmed Hassan (Africa-based Player) and Ghana midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah (Most Promising Talent) while Ghana were predictably named best national team after reaching the World Cup quarter-finals.

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Ghana’s Asamoah Gyan wins 2010 BBC award

Gyan misses a critical penalty at 2010 Word cup in South Africa
Gyan misses a critical penalty at 2010 Word cup in South Africa

Ghana and Sunderland star Asamoah Gyan has been crowned BBC African Footballer of the Year for 2010.

The Black Stars striker clinched the title with an overwhelming majority – receiving more than half of the vote.

He finished well ahead of fellow Ghanaian Andre ‘Dede’ Ayew, Ivorians Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon.

“I’m so happy, I can’t believe it,” he said. “I’m so thankful to all the fans who voted for me.”

He added: “It was really hard to win this award, especially because of all the other players I was up against.

“So I’m so appreciative to all my fans in Africa – especially my family and fans in Ghana.”

Gyan had a memorable year internationally, leading Ghana to second place at the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, scoring three of the four goals that helped Ghana reach their first final in 18 years.

At the World Cup in South Africa, the 24-year-old grabbed the world’s attention as his three goals helped the Black Stars progress from the group and into the quarter-finals.

But he shot to prominence through unfortunate circumstances as his missed penalty against Uruguay with the last kick of the game denied Africa its first semi-final berth.

He then earned widespread praise and went some way to redeeming his error when recovered his composure to score in the shoot-out following a 1-1 draw.

World Cup Exit

Despite the disappointment of the World Cup exit, the finals boosted his career as he left French side Rennes to become Sunderland’s record signing at £13m.

“Asamoah has been a fantastic addition to the Sunderland squad,” said Sunderland coach Steve Bruce, who presented Gyan with the African Footballer of the Year trophy.

“As our record signing, he had a lot of expectation placed on his shoulders but he has embraced the club wholeheartedly and has settled in very well.

“He’s a strong, quick player and brings something different to the side.

“He has formed positive partnerships with other strikers and he’s a real bright spark around the place too – always smiling and happy.

“He has an infectious joy for football, and we are reaping the rewards of that.

“I’m thrilled for Asamoah that he has been awarded this honour, it is thoroughly deserved.”

The search for BBC African Footballer of the Year 2010 began on 15 November when fans were given a chance to choose their African football hero from a shortlist selected by experts from each of the continent’s 52 countries.

Public voting closed on 10 December 2010 – with votes cast online at bbc.com/africanfootball or via text messages.

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Football Fanatics

I am not a fanatic of anything, let alone the round-leather games, whose players only entertain and then smile to the banks. Why should people bully and kill themselves over a “game”? The result of a game can go either way. So, it is important for the supporters of players to withstand the outcome of football matches, even when they are not happy about it.

Suleiman Alphonso Omondi, a 29-year-old Kenyan football fan was once reported to have committed suicide just because the club he supported (Arsenal) lost a match. This is not proper. Maybe psychoanalytic experts may help us explain why some people take football as a religion, and often allow their emotions to overcome their reason when watching the game. The losing players may weep, and react negatively on the pitch, and may even call the bluff of the referee, as Drogba (some Nigerian supporters call him Aderogba!) once did when Chelsea played with Barcelona. But players don’t kill themselves. Look at Kanu or Essien, win or lose, they always take it easy; gentle, cool, calm and collected. It is because they know it is a game.

The problem with fanaticism is that it leaves a bitter taste after a sweet experience. While the players play with one another and even exchange jerseys, knowing that losing a match is not the end of their career, their fanatic supporters fight against one another. Informed investigations show that some football fanatics don’t talk to their spouses for days, some go on sex strike, and some don’t even eat at home in protest of ‘their’ loss. This is still bearable. But ending one’s or other people’s life as a result of a football match is the most unthinkable.

In fact, If Drogba’s Chelsea did not win and Eto’o’s Barca won, what do you stand to lose? If there was no game called football or soccer would you not live your life? If your club does not win today, can it not win tomorrow? We must watch matches responsibly. In short, we should be enthusiasts and fans of football, and not fanatics of it.

§        Earlier version published in The Guardian (Lagos)

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Drogba, Eto’o and Gyan finalists for Africa’s player of the year

Fiifi Johnson

Strikers Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto’o and Asamoah Gyan have been named as finalists for Africa’s 2010 player of the year award.

Ivory Coast’s Drogba is a two-time winner and last claimed the honour in 2009. He won the English Premier League title with Chelsea last season, finishing as the league’s top scorer with 29 goals in 32 games.

Eto’o of Cameroon, Africa’s player of the year in 2003, 2004 and 2005, won an Italian league, cup and Champions League treble with Inter Milan in 2010. Gyan starred as Ghana advanced to the quarter-finals at the World Cup.

The winner will be decided by a vote of the coaches or technical directors of the 53 countries that make up the Confederation of African Football on Dec. 20.

(CBC)

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A woman vows to commit suicide unless Asamoah Gyan marries her

A young Ghanaian woman says Black Stars arrow head, Asamoah Gyan must requite her love for him with a march to the altar this December or she will commit suicide.

The lady, Obaa Yaa, has said that she is so madly in love with the Sunderland striker to the point that suicide is the only option if Asamoah spurns her love proposal.

The Madina-based woman was on Deloris Frimpong Manson’s entertainment programme, Delay on TV Africa over the weekend professing her ‘deep’ love for Asamoah, who would be profoundly surprised his new fame is also grabbing for him new friends. Obaa Yaa revealed that she is helplessly in love with the football star (and now music star) and she wants him to marry her by December 24 or “I will kill myself,” she said.

She is mesmerized by Asamoah’s haircut, skin tone and the excellent skill he exhibits not only on the football field but also on the music scene.

According to Obaa Yaa, she has been having sleepless nights and to prove her love to the footballer, she has even learnt the star’s after-goal dance moves as well as his jig in the video of Castro’s latest hit song African Gils in which Asamoah features.

Dark-skinned, bushy-haired and fat Obaa Yaa was insistent on “I love you so much” and “I will kill myself”, and was all dancing to “African Girls” on the show.

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