CAF Awards: Onigbinde Blasts Yaya Toure
Babajide Orevba 2 minutes ago 12
The former Super Eagles coach Adegboye Onigbinde has blasted Ivorian international, Yaya Toure, for his remarks after losing the 2015 CAF African Footballer of the Year award to Gabon and Borussia Dortmund striker, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Onigbinde
Adeboye Onigbinde
Aubameyang was crowned Africa’s best player of 2015, a situation his runner-up Yaya Toure condemned as “indecent” and “pathetic”.
According to Daily Post, Onigbinde disclosed that Aubameyang deserved to win it.
“Can one be the accused and the Judge?” He started. “There is a meticulous system of selecting people for this award and probably he (Toure) does not understand the details. And I don’t believe CAF have changed its system from what I know it to be.”
“This award is not done by one man. It is done by media people, technical people, making their input. Unless Yaya Toure can come out and say what he thinks really went wrong.”
The coach who led the Super Eagles to the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan also Onigbinde also faulted Toure’s claim that he should have won.
“Because Cote d Ivoire won the Cup of Nations is not a criteria to award him the award. It is a cumulative assessment,” he added.
“It’s like when Nigerians are talking about the FIFA ranking, making claims that the Super Eagles won this match and that match, the question is of what grade are these matches.
“So like I said, it is a cumulative assessment, not just because you won the Cup of Nations and you think you are the best,” he concluded.
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