Jordan Ayew picks Eto'o over Yaya Toure as greatest African footballer

Black Stars skipper Jordan Ayew has named Cameroonian fable Samuel Eto'o arsenic the top African footballer, up of Ivorian icon Yaya Toure.

According to Ayew, Eto'o distinguished himself arsenic 1 of the continent’s finest players, boasting awesome statistic and delivering magical moments that acceptable him isolated from his peers.

He noted that Eto'o, who presently serves arsenic the president of the Cameroon Football Federation, had the quality to people important goals and alteration the people of games, helping his teams triumph large titles, including the UEFA Champions League and galore different trophies astatine some nine and planetary levels.

In an interrogation reported by GhanaSoccerNet, Ayew was asked to take betwixt Yaya Toure and Eto'o arsenic the top African player.

He responded, "For me, it's Samuel Eto'o. There's a crippled to win, and you cognize Samuel volition lick the problem. He ever stepped up erstwhile the stakes were highest. That's thing you can't teach. It's not conscionable astir what helium won; it's astir however helium did it. Samuel Eto'o is the greatest."

Eto'o enjoyed a stellar career, winning the UEFA Champions League 3 times, doubly with Barcelona and erstwhile with Inter Milan.

He besides claimed 2 Africa Cup of Nations titles with Cameroon and was named African Footballer of the Year 4 times.

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