{"id":448688,"date":"2017-12-20T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/sammy-kuffour-is-an-intelligent-boy-ibrahim-sunday\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:30:29","slug":"sammy-kuffour-is-an-intelligent-boy-ibrahim-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/sammy-kuffour-is-an-intelligent-boy-ibrahim-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Kuffour is an intelligent boy \u2013 Ibrahim Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/36834626.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ibrahimsunday\" title=\"Ibrahimsunday\" width=\"295\" height=\"191\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ibrahim Sunday, 1971 African Footballer of the Year winner<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513783829_140_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghana football legend and 1971 African Footballer of the Year winner, Ibrahim Sunday, has told www.ghanaweb.com that Sammy Kuffour demonstrated a great deal of intelligence and maturity, when he \u2018declined\u2019 to unveil the CAF Africa Player of the Year shortlist in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Former Black Stars defender Sammy Kuffour earned great reviews earlier this week, when he declined the honour of unveiling the final three-man shortlist for the 2017 CAF African Player of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bayern Munich defender who was selected to represent Ghanaian football legends at the unveiling of the final nominees for the prestigious awards, said he could not do the unveiling when his senior, Ibrahim Sunday was at the auditorium. <\/p>\n<p>He therefore \u2018begged\u2019 the organizers to allow Ibrahim Sunday, who was a former winner of the award, to be the one to unveil the final three (3) man.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSammy Kuffuor\u2019s gesture sent the auditorium of the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel- venue of the programme- into thunderous applause.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Ghanaweb.com, Ibrahim Sunday, confessed that he didn\u2019t expect that from Kuffour but was impressed and touched by his humility.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cHe showed maturity and I am impressed. 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