Okocha misses out on award

Bolton’s Nigerian midfielder Jay-Jay Okocha has been pipped to the 2003 African Player of the Year award by Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o.

Okocha misses out on award
Sat, 01 May, 2004 - 10:10

Bolton’s Nigerian midfielder Jay-Jay Okocha has been pipped to the 2003 African Player of the Year award by Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o.

Okocha and Marseille striker Didier Drogba, of the Ivory Coast, were nominated for the award but missed out when Real Mallorca star Eto’o, 23, was named as winner in his country’s capital Yaounde.

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