Roger Milla had already retired when he came back at 38 for the 1990 World Cup. He left it a global star, with a dance by the corner flag that everyone copied.
That tournament ended with Cameroon in the quarter-finals, the first African team to get that far. Four years later, at 42, he scored again and became the oldest goalscorer in World Cup history.
The rest of the file:
- African Footballer of the Year in 1976 and 1990
- a career that ran from 1965 to 1996
- clubs including Léopard de Douala, Tonnerre Yaoundé, Valenciennes, Monaco, Saint-Étienne, Montpellier and Pelita Jaya
The striker changed how plenty of people around the world saw African football, and he did it with a smile and a wiggle of the hips.
Milla at the corner flag
Tomorrow: number 9.
