{"id":609006,"date":"2019-04-20T05:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday, 20 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>footballmadeinghana.com<\/p>\n2019-04-20\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/0"},"modified":"2019-04-20T05:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:54:06","slug":"ibrahim-sunday-weighs-in-on-greatest-ever-ghanaian-footballer-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/20\/ibrahim-sunday-weighs-in-on-greatest-ever-ghanaian-footballer-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahim Sunday weighs in on greatest ever Ghanaian footballer debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday, 20 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>footballmadeinghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/36834626.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ibrahimsunday\" title=\"Ibrahimsunday\" width=\"295\" height=\"191\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ibrahim Sunday<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Legendary Ghanaian footballer Ibrahim Sunday has offered his two cents on the debate over Ghana\u2019s greatest ever player.<\/p>\n<p>If you go and ask most connoisseur of the game in the country right now, you will most likely here the name, Abedi Ayew \u2018Pele\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably the greatest African forward of the early 1990\u2019s Abedi is synonymous with Ghanaian football.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for a six-year stint in France with Marseille, he would win two league titles and a European Cup during that time.<\/p>\n<p>However, coach Sunday in an exclusive interview with FootballMadeInGhana.com, made strong arguments for another contender, Baba Yara popularly called King Winger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the players came during their time, if I talk about Baba Yara a lot of people don\u2019t know about him but he was the greatest player of his time. Fantastic player!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had several others who were also great but Baba Yara was on another level. The President of France back then made a famous remark that \u2018Ghanaians don\u2019t know anything apart from Babayara\u2019,  at a time without as much media coverage as today he was making waves all over the world\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he was playing today, he would\u2019ve been compared to the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yara\u2019s rise to fame was unprecedented as a result of his goal-scoring skills; however, his football career was abruptly put to an end as a result of a car accident.<\/p>\n<p>He started out as a horse jockey player \u2013 as a youngster at the Accra Turf Club between 1950 and 1955. Asante Kotoko signed him in 1955, and after a few years, became the greatest footballer of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>Yara was a proud member of the 1961 Black Stars and won 51 caps for Black Stars, scoring 49 goals which is a lot of goals for a winger and was thus nicknamed \u2018King of Wingers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He played active football from 1955-1963, and was voted Footballer of the year twice; the highest football accolade in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kumasi Sports Stadium was named after Baba Yara on the April 12th of 2005 for his exceptional talent and immense contribution to Ghana football.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Saturday, 20 April 2019 Source: footballmadeinghana.com 2019-04-20 Ibrahim Sunday Legendary Ghanaian footballer Ibrahim Sunday has offered his two cents on the debate over Ghana\u2019s greatest ever player. 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[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ibrahim Sunday weighs in on greatest ever Ghanaian footballer debate - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/20\/ibrahim-sunday-weighs-in-on-greatest-ever-ghanaian-footballer-debate\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ibrahim Sunday weighs in on greatest ever Ghanaian footballer debate - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Saturday, 20 April 2019 Source: footballmadeinghana.com 2019-04-20 Ibrahim Sunday Legendary Ghanaian footballer Ibrahim Sunday has offered his two cents on the debate over Ghana\u2019s greatest ever player. 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