Check Out Africa’s Top Defenders Who Never Won Afcon

March 26, 2021

Here is a list of the continent’s top players who have never won Africa’s grandest prize, the AFCON Cup.

One of Nigeria’s greatest defenders, Auxerre excelled with Auxerre in France, and also represented both Milan giants—AC and Inter.

Despite amassing 42 caps for the Super Eagles, and featuring in two World Cups, he never got his hands on Africa’s biggest prize.

The defender was an Olympic gold medallist in 1996, but the closest he ever came to the Afcon was a runners-up medal in 2000.

Is he the greatest African defender never to win the Nations Cup? Here are five other stoppers who may deserve this somewhat dubious accolade.

Kuffour was brought to Europe by Torino aged just 13 after playing junior football in his native Ghana.

Arguably the greatest African defender of all-time, he won the 2001 BBC African Footballer of the Year award and spent 12 successful years with Bayern Munich, where he won six league titles and four German Cups.

He’s perhaps best remembered for breaking down in tears following Manchester United’s two late goals to seal a 2-1 win over Bayern in the 1999 Uefa Champions League final.

He featured in the 2006 World Cup for the Black Stars.