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Who have been the best young players at #afcon2025 so far??
Here are some of my picks for @BBCSport
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John Bennett
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John Bennett
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Broadcaster on @bbcworldservice, @5liveSport, & BBC Final Score. Enjoy talking European & African football. I’ve made award winning docs about Klopp & Arteta.
- Kluivert scoring a hat-trick, people listening to Robbie Williams songs, David Moyes managing Everton. What decade is this?!
- Mohammed Kudus. The future of Ghana football!
- “Have you ever self isolated before John?” “Yeah, about 19 years ago...”
- The Ghana fans behind me are in bits. One lady has been praying for the entire injury time!
- Unai Emery comes across as such a classy guy. No bitterness whatsoever about how his time at Arsenal came to an end. (And as for the mocking... This is a guy who, despite being a beginner in the language was brave enough to do his first Arsenal press conference in English).
- Afcon is huge. It’s massively tough to win. & it means the world to the players. Ask Eto’o, Yaya, Salah, Drogba, Mane etc - who’ve won it all in Europe - what Afcon means to them. There is no debate to be had about whether it’s a major tournament. The answer is clear. End of.
- Typical negative comments on here about the Liverpool parade… If, as a club, you can’t celebrate winning the FA Cup and the League Cup in the same season then football really is done… Congrats LFC on a season to remember.
- Sadio Mane overtook Didier Drogba's Premier League goal tally tonight. So Salah and Mane are now 1 and 2 in the top scoring African players in Premier League history. What a duo.
- Someone in front of me at Al Bayt stadium waving a huge Ghana flag. You Ghana fans are everywhere 😂👏
- I’ve hesitated about posting this but I think it’s right to remember Christian Atsu in the correct way, as someone who radiated positive energy. A talented, friendly, kind and generous person. This was from an interview I did with him before AFCON 2019.
