African Cup of Nations - Good News !?

[Blake Griffin]

dont think bassong will be spurs player in mid to late january myself.

he'll probably still be here on january 31st, whether he's still here on the feb 1st that's another matter.

 

[ladi100]

Its not - the standard of African football has taken half a step back in the last few years imo. Ghana did brilliantly at the world cup but it was a pretty awful world cup with many of the traditional top nations under-performing (Italy, ourselves, France, Argentina).

If you had to ask most football fans to name the top 5 players in African football chances are they would still name the likes of Eto'o, Drogba, Yaya Toure, Adebayor, maybe a fully fit Essien still in amongst them. Basically its best players are the same players who helped improve African football in the run-up to 2006 but they're now 5 years older so not as sharp and in most cases past their best.

Very good point. Many younger players are now picked up in Europe sooner and fail to develop as their predecessors had. Some even end up playing for foreign nations due to inefficient home nation organisations. But there will always be one Adebayor for every 3 Djemba-Djemba's