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Why Eto’o’s status as Africa’s greatest will take some beating

Samuel Eto’o’s response to El Hadji Diouf recently over who Africa’s greatest ever player is was as brazen as a rebuttal could be. In a sense, it seemed like the Cameroon icon had had enough of the lingering debate and felt the need to make a statement himself.

"None of them [Diouf and Didier Drogba] can come and say that they were at my level or better, and it's not the fact that I say it, it's a fact, it's something that is there,” a fortnight Eto’o asserted. “I wanted to be number one and I have been throughout my career.