Over the years, African football has had its fair share of unsavoury moments: from corruption at administrative levels to national teams threatening to boycott games over failure to receive bonuses.
Frankly, it’s a lengthy list of unpleasant events that could take ages trying to recollect due to the sheer excess of embarrassing head-scratching episodes on the continent.
Still, the comical nature in which the 2007 African Footballer of the Year awards panned out was truly astonishing, and not in a positive way.
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The major front-runner for the honour, Didier Drogba alleged that the Confederation of African Football threatened to hand the honour to principal challenger Frederic Kanoute if he wasn’t present at the ceremony that held in Togo.