These two are unarguably the most prominent and popular soccer
stars to come out of Africa. They have both won the prestigious African Footballer of the Year award six times between them. Eto’o winning it four times, Drogba winning twice.
We chronicle their life outside the field of play in this
piece….thier wives, houses, and cars…Its a pictorial
presentation….Enjoy!
SAMUEL ETO’O
Cameroonian footballer who plays as a striker for Russian
team Anzhi Makhachkala. He is also the current of the Cameroon national
team.Eto’o trained at Kadji Sports Academy. He also holds a Spanish
passport, enabling him not to count among the “foreign players” working
in the European Union.
Eto’o scored over 100 goals in five seasons with FC Barcelona, and
is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player
in La Liga. In 2010, he became the first player to win two
European Continental Trebles following his back-to-back achievements
with Barcelona and Internazionale. He is the second player to have ever
scored in two separate UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth
player, after Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa, and Gerard Piqué, to have
won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams.[7] He
is the most decorated African player of all time having won the African
Player of the Year award a record four times in 2003, 2004, 2005, and
2010.
Wife
Georgette
Cars
DIDIER DROGBA
Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (French pronunciation: [didje
dʁɔɡba]; born 11 March 1978) is an Ivorian footballer who plays in
the centre forward position. He currently plays forChelsea in
the Premier League, where he is deputy vice-captain, and is the captain
andall-time top scorer of the Côte d’Ivoire national football team. He
has scored more goals for Chelsea than any other foreign player and is
currently Chelsea’s fourth highest goal scorer of all time. His key
attributes include his physical strength, ability in the air, and his
power to retain possession of the ball.
Wife
Cars
House
Drogba’s house In England, estimated at 14.5M pounds
There you have it! The lives of Africa’s prolific footies….who’s winning so far?
