Former Manchester City mercurial midfielder Yaya Toure believes the 2013 CAF Player of the Year was wrongly awarded to him.
Speaking during a chat on Mikel Obi’s podcast, the former Cote d’Ivoire captain stated that Mikel who won the Champions League with Chelsea and at also the Africa Cup of Nations that same 2013 was more deserving to win awards more than any other African player.
“You deserved it, Obi, to be honest, because in the league, the season was perfect. Nigeria won the AFCON, and you were instrumental in this period,” Toure said on Obi One Podcast.
“The thing is, I was told nothing [by CAF] and I said Obi deserved it at the time. If it were me or him [Obi Mikel], it would have been fine, but the big question was me attending the ceremony. If we don’t go there, who’s going to support?” Yaya Toure said.
Mikel was second runners up to Toure in a voting that still baffles football fans. Just like in 1998 when Austin Jay Jay Okacha was tipped to win the title, but it was handed to Morocco’s Mustapha Hadji.
