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| Milla is Caf''s best from 50 years |
1/14/2007 |
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The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has named Roger Milla as the best African player of the past 50 years.
The Cameroon World Cup star was chosen in a poll by followers of African football through Caf''s website ahead of the confederation''s fiftieth anniversary celebrations next month.
Milla, who starred at three World Cups with the Indomitable Lions (1982, 1990 and 1994), polled a total 2246 points to beat Egypt''s Mahmoud El-Khatib, who recorded 2165 points.
Milla first won the African Footballer of the Year title in 1976 and regained it fourteen years later, after leading the Indomitable Lions to the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup at the ripe age of 38.
In 1994, he became the oldest player in World Cup history to score a goal, getting Cameroon''s lone strike in a 1-6 loss to Russia.
In the top 10 are Hossam Hassan (Egypt/2011 points), Samuel Eto''o (Cameroon/1840), Abedi Pele (Ghana/1783), George Weah (Liberia/1604), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast/1467), Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria/1209), Rabeh Madjer (Algeria/1176) and Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia/1073).
Caf is planning several events to commemorate fiftieth anniversary celebrations, including a youth tournament involving Caf''s four founder members - Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa and Sudan.
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