Yeboah is the best Ghanaian player of all-time - Okocha

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Pumpuni 7 years ago

One of the best, but certainly not all time best.

One of the best, but certainly not all time best.
DR TRUTH 7 years ago

HE PLAYED FOR SMALL TEAMS BUT SHONE.. CORNERS,FRANKFURT, LEEDS. ABEDI & WEAH BECAME AFRICAN BEST WHEN PLAYING FOR BIG TEAMS WITH STAR PLAYERS

HE PLAYED FOR SMALL TEAMS BUT SHONE.. CORNERS,FRANKFURT, LEEDS. ABEDI & WEAH BECAME AFRICAN BEST WHEN PLAYING FOR BIG TEAMS WITH STAR PLAYERS
$AINT GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

in my opinion, he is the most prolific gh striker. i will rate him better than gyan bcos when yeboah was in his prime gh never wen to wcup but we saw what he did in the premier lg in germany and england. gyan went to england ...
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in my opinion, he is the most prolific gh striker. i will rate him better than gyan bcos when yeboah was in his prime gh never wen to wcup but we saw what he did in the premier lg in germany and england. gyan went to england and ran away..ofui just liek he ran away fron penalties at afcon. abedi is gh best player ...i didnt get to see the careers of polo, osei kofi, mama acquah etc but i hear there were very prolific as well..
John 7 years ago

No basis for comparison the terrains were different,definitely the likes of Yeboah,Abedi,Ali Ibrahim etc stand tall above current players not even Stephen Appiah can compare himself to them.

No basis for comparison the terrains were different,definitely the likes of Yeboah,Abedi,Ali Ibrahim etc stand tall above current players not even Stephen Appiah can compare himself to them.
DR TRUTH 7 years ago

YEBOAH PLAYED LEFT WING(11) AND INSIDE LEFT(10) AT KOTOKO U20, CORNERSTONES AND HIS 1ST SEASON AT OKWAHU WHEN SAM 'MUGU' YEBOAH WAS THIER STRIKER (9). HE WAS A MIXTURE OF FRANCIS KUMI, OPOKU NTI AND EMMANUEL QUARSHIE AKA 'STR ...
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YEBOAH PLAYED LEFT WING(11) AND INSIDE LEFT(10) AT KOTOKO U20, CORNERSTONES AND HIS 1ST SEASON AT OKWAHU WHEN SAM 'MUGU' YEBOAH WAS THIER STRIKER (9). HE WAS A MIXTURE OF FRANCIS KUMI, OPOKU NTI AND EMMANUEL QUARSHIE AKA 'STRIKER BODOI'. HE COULD SHOOT, DRIBBLE, PASS AND OUTMUSCLE OPPOSING PLAYERS. HE HAD IT ALL
Son Of Man 7 years ago

Yeboah better than Weah? Please say it ain't so. There are four great strikers in Africa, Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba, George Weah and Mohammed Aboutrika

Yeboah better than Weah? Please say it ain't so. There are four great strikers in Africa, Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba, George Weah and Mohammed Aboutrika
Fi 7 years ago

Not African

Not African
Cape coast boy 7 years ago

GOD BLESS GHANA FOOTBALL

GOD BLESS GHANA FOOTBALL
Adu Phillips (Toronto) 7 years ago

Yeboah was great at club level outside Ghana than any player Ghana has ever produced but when it comes to the national level Polo,Razark,Abedi Pele stand tall. To be frank Yeboah was a magic man on the field during his time ...
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Yeboah was great at club level outside Ghana than any player Ghana has ever produced but when it comes to the national level Polo,Razark,Abedi Pele stand tall. To be frank Yeboah was a magic man on the field during his time.
T and T 7 years ago

Okocha, U did not get the opportunity to observe Osei Kofi, Mohamed Polo and Robert Mensah, like Pele they did not play outside their home country, but I can say for sure that great as Yeboah was, he does not come close, even ...
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Okocha, U did not get the opportunity to observe Osei Kofi, Mohamed Polo and Robert Mensah, like Pele they did not play outside their home country, but I can say for sure that great as Yeboah was, he does not come close, even Abedi was better than Yeboah.
POW @ TRUMP anaa, ONAAPO 7 years ago

Who told you Tony Yeboah is Ghana's all time best?

Who told you Tony Yeboah is Ghana's all time best?
OKOROMANSA 7 years ago

J.J. OKOCHA HAS EXPRESSED HIS OPINION, BUT DID NOT START ANY WAR. EVERBODY HAS HIS OR HER OPINION WHEN IT COMES TO GHANA'S ALL TIME BEST FOOTBALLER. BUT OKOCHA, A NON-GHANAIAN AND BASED ON HIS PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF GHANA SOCC ...
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J.J. OKOCHA HAS EXPRESSED HIS OPINION, BUT DID NOT START ANY WAR. EVERBODY HAS HIS OR HER OPINION WHEN IT COMES TO GHANA'S ALL TIME BEST FOOTBALLER. BUT OKOCHA, A NON-GHANAIAN AND BASED ON HIS PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF GHANA SOCCER AND HAVING PLAYED ALONGSIDE GHANAIAN PLAYERS GAVE VERY GOOD REASONS WHY HE CONSIDERS TONY YEBOAH AS HIS PICK.

THE ARGUMENT THAT HE DID NOT SEE THIS OR THAT PLAYER IS IMMATERIAL HERE.

FROM NOW ON, LET US APPRECIATE SOMETHING ABOUT THIS FACT. THOSE OF OUR PLAYERS WHO EXCELLED DURING THEIR PLAYING DAYS HAD A PECULIAR QUALITY WHICH OUR CURRENT TEAMS DON'T HAVE. TONY YEBOAH, DAN OWUSU, ANAS SEIDU, KWASI OWUSU, MAMA ACQUAH, JOHN HAMMOND, WILLIE KLUTSE, GEORGE ALHASSAN, DAN KAYEDE AND A FEW OTHERS WERE BLESSED WITH A PERFECT PHYSICAL STRUCTURE THAT ENHANCED THEIR SKILLS. THEY WERE ALL ROUND SIX FEET AND ABOUT 180 KILOS IN WEIGHT ON THE AVERAGE. YET THEY WERE QUICK ON THE BALL, AGILE AND GOOD AT SCORING GOALS. THANK GOD WE HAD OSEI KOFI, POLO, RAZAK, SUNDAY, ADOLPH ARMAH, OPOKU AFRIYIE, BANNERMAN, YAWSON, ASASE, KOFI BADU, HARUNA YUSIF AND A FEW MORE WHO DID NOT HAVE THAT STOUT FRAME OF A MAN, BUT WERE EQUALLY OR EXCEPTIONALLY SKILFUL AND DEXTEROUS.
THE TWO SCENARIOS BLENDED INTO A MASTERPIECE OF A TEAM. I THINK GFA MUST FIND A WAY TO CREATE STRIKERS OUT OF OUR YOUNG PLAYERS SO WE CAN HAVE A FEW MORE OF SUCH FEARFUL STRIKERS.

I REMEMBER THE EARLY DAYS OF KWASI OWUSU AND KEPT WONDERING HOW HE MATURED TO CAPTAIN THE NATIONAL TEAM. IN FACT I SAW HIM PRACTISING HOW TO SCORE WITH IS HEAD, AND HE WAS MARVELOUS. DAN OWUSU WAS ANOTHER, BECAUSE HERE WAS A GUY WHO WOULD SCORE A GOAL IN ALMOST EVERY MATCH THAT HE PLAYED. SO HERE IS OUR HANDICAP, OUR CURRENT STARS ARE GOOD AND DOING WELL, BUT LET US LOOK AT OUR STRIKING DEPARTMENT AND IMPROVE ON IT AND NOT TO RELY ON ONE PLAYER, ASAMOAH DJAN FOR ALMOST A DECADE, HOW CAN THAT BE?
Yaw Badu, Toronto 7 years ago

Okromansa, l hereby appoint you as the Sports Minister & GFA CHAIRMAN (concurrently ). Even if there is a conflict, we can live with such a conflict. I thank God we have deep thinking & experienced persons like you in the ...
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Okromansa, l hereby appoint you as the Sports Minister & GFA CHAIRMAN (concurrently ). Even if there is a conflict, we can live with such a conflict. I thank God we have deep thinking & experienced persons like you in the nation. Keep spewing out such good ideas, for, one day the people at the helm of affairs may stumble over such good opinions. THANKS AGAIN.
TVhm 7 years ago

And what happens when he came to black stars

And what happens when he came to black stars
Mensah Abrampah 7 years ago

Abedi Pele created unnecessary problems for the Black Stars. When he was a pre-teen he owned the football and dictated who should play, who should not play and what happens on the field of play. As an adult, although he had g ...
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Abedi Pele created unnecessary problems for the Black Stars. When he was a pre-teen he owned the football and dictated who should play, who should not play and what happens on the field of play. As an adult, although he had great qualities he still wanted to be the de facto leader on and off the field of play and that poor attitude affected team spirit at the national level. Abedi would demand to be made captain or he wasn't going to play. This happened in 1992 before the start of the finals of the African Cup of Nations in Senegal. Kwesi Appiah had successfully captained the team through the qualifying series and when Abedi and others were invited to augment the team for the finals Abedi demanded to be made captain before he would play for his Nation. This almost tore the team apart. Abedi Pele was a great player whenever he played for his club but he almost single-handedly dismembered the Black Stars of his time. Great individual player at club level but a disaster at the national.
$AINT GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

were u there? shut up...die3 obr3 no odi. how can u allow appiah to be captian when u ahve a player in abedi excelling in europe? plus abedi understands french and english. this is a no brainer but some fools see this as logi ...
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were u there? shut up...die3 obr3 no odi. how can u allow appiah to be captian when u ahve a player in abedi excelling in europe? plus abedi understands french and english. this is a no brainer but some fools see this as logic and instead of the gfa n coach explaining this to them they themselves were confused n this may havecreated a rift. if appiah was gh best player in marseille at the time n abedi was a local kotoko player. will he have agreed to relinquish the captaincy to abedi, a local player? wat is good for the goose is good for the gander...
Ghanaman 7 years ago

Abedi was head and neck above anyone in the black stars, three times African footballer, the qualifiers he was the main man, yeboah was not coming till we did qualify,the games, both abedi and yeboah all did well, but it wa ...
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Abedi was head and neck above anyone in the black stars, three times African footballer, the qualifiers he was the main man, yeboah was not coming till we did qualify,the games, both abedi and yeboah all did well, but it was abedi who makes the difference in Senegal 92, simply he makes sure no team can defeat the black stars...the final? we missed him and the trophy, the armband is for him forever no worthy challengers PERIOD!!!!!!!!
Kofi Boat. Kaduna, Nigeria. 7 years ago

Okocha doesn't know any Ghanaian player aside Yeboah if this is what he is saying.

Okocha doesn't know any Ghanaian player aside Yeboah if this is what he is saying.
edem 7 years ago

Its a matter of opinion.The fact is He was one of our best

Its a matter of opinion.The fact is He was one of our best
Mike 7 years ago

On what bases is he judged the best in Ghana? Is it because he won laurels for Ghana? He won laurels for his teams in Europe? He won the Champions league for his club? He was the African player of the year many times? He coul ...
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On what bases is he judged the best in Ghana? Is it because he won laurels for Ghana? He won laurels for his teams in Europe? He won the Champions league for his club? He was the African player of the year many times? He couldn't achieve any of these yet a non Ghanaian comes to tell use he the best of all times! Rubbish
DR TRUTH 7 years ago

BERNARD TAPIE THE MARSIELLE OWNER BOUGHT ALL THE TITLES THEY WON

BERNARD TAPIE THE MARSIELLE OWNER BOUGHT ALL THE TITLES THEY WON
Mike 7 years ago

Talk about Sammy Kuffour and Stephen Appiah; these players won World Cup at junior levels and took Black Stars to world cup. Abedi Pele many times African player of the year and people like that. Tony was a good player but no ...
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Talk about Sammy Kuffour and Stephen Appiah; these players won World Cup at junior levels and took Black Stars to world cup. Abedi Pele many times African player of the year and people like that. Tony was a good player but not the best.
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$AINT GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

he was good at dribbling but he knows abedi was the best dribbler. jealous okocha lost africa best player to abedi who went on t win the award 3 times. so what okocha is sayin is based on jealousy. so many nigerians were hear ...
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he was good at dribbling but he knows abedi was the best dribbler. jealous okocha lost africa best player to abedi who went on t win the award 3 times. so what okocha is sayin is based on jealousy. so many nigerians were heartbroken when abedi scored that afcon goal with his ponytail. i will never forget that....hhh3333hhhh! gal paa nie...muahahahaaaaaaaa abedi's gial with the back of his head and weah coast to coast in the italian seria a i will never forget those goals...
Bombadier 7 years ago

Okocha never said that. He actually said that Tony Yeboah is his most favourite Ghanaian player. He certainly cannot be the best Ghanaian player of all time. In fact, he comes no where near the first five best players. Abedi ...
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Okocha never said that. He actually said that Tony Yeboah is his most favourite Ghanaian player. He certainly cannot be the best Ghanaian player of all time. In fact, he comes no where near the first five best players. Abedi Pele was far better than Yeboah and no amount of hatred, propaganda and ethnocentric agenda can change that, PERIOD!!!
ACTION 7 years ago

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josh 7 years ago

His key objective on the field was to protect his legs. He does not come close to Abedi who threw in his all.

In Ghana no one has so far come close to Polo

His key objective on the field was to protect his legs. He does not come close to Abedi who threw in his all.

In Ghana no one has so far come close to Polo
Nii Anang Mcphee 7 years ago

I will also rate Abdul Razak ahead of Yeboah. Thanks Bro Josh and God bless Ghana

I will also rate Abdul Razak ahead of Yeboah. Thanks Bro Josh and God bless Ghana
Da Yie 7 years ago

Anyone who plays/ watches football objectively knows that Tony Yeboah is not an all time best( not even one of the best). Here are the facts: 1 . When he was playing for. Cornerston in the 80's Ghana did not have great playe ...
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Anyone who plays/ watches football objectively knows that Tony Yeboah is not an all time best( not even one of the best). Here are the facts: 1 . When he was playing for. Cornerston in the 80's Ghana did not have great players around. The likes of Abedi Pele and Opoku Nti were abroad. Yes he was able to help Cornerston ' almost' win the league then. He also tried with Okwawu United. In 1988, he could not help Ghana Qualify for the Soul Olympic when we fell to Zambia 2-1 aggregate in Accra.Abedi did not play in that match. I remember very well because I was at the stadium when Coach Addey came up with that ' head - scratching ' selection. Am very sure Abadi Pele would have made a big difference if he had played. 2. When he went to Germany in the late 80's we did not hear about him until after Italia 90 . Why? . It was because most of the best players in Europe moved to Italy after the 1990 World Cup . Therefore ' in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is the king', if he was that great how come he could not help Ghana win Senegal 92 after Abedi had to sit out that final due to 2 yellow cards? Tony Yeboah, just like Osei Kuffuor were what I will call lucky footballers. They were average players who shone when there were hadly any one around to compete with them( but that is for another discussion).Tony Yeboah has contributed in no small measure to the failure of Ghana to win any tournament since 1982. When he went to England, he scored those goals because English players at that time were playing 'kick and run' soccer. In my opinion, there are many players who were far better than Tony in their hay days .
TRUE AFRICAN 7 years ago

Most Ghanaians who are alive today were not even born in the days of the legendary Baba Yara,so they have no idea about who Baba Yara was.You guys have to do more research in Ghana's Soccer history before you come out with na ...
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Most Ghanaians who are alive today were not even born in the days of the legendary Baba Yara,so they have no idea about who Baba Yara was.You guys have to do more research in Ghana's Soccer history before you come out with naive and false pronouncements.
Sly from CHITOWN. 7 years ago

Wrong headlines.

Wrong headlines.

Yeboah is the best Ghanaian player of all-time - Okocha

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