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African Legends #22: Tony Yeboah - Ghana's Finest

ChampionSport Editorial Team·09-03-2026·1 min read
African Legends #22: Tony Yeboah - Ghana's Finest

That volley against Liverpool. That thunderbolt against Wimbledon. Tony Yeboah only needed a moment to make a whole stadium stop and stare.

Before England, the Ghanaian had done the hard yards in Germany. After Cornerstones he played for Saarbrücken and then Eintracht Frankfurt, where he finished as the Bundesliga's top scorer twice.

At Leeds United he scored 32 goals in 66 games. Two of them, against Liverpool and Wimbledon, come up whenever people pick the best Premier League goals, and the Liverpool volley still turns up in polls of the best of all time. He finished at Hamburg, and his career ran from 1981 to 2002.

The Liverpool volley and the Wimbledon strike

Number 21 follows tomorrow.

ChampionSport Editorial Team

ChampionSport Editorial Team

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The ChampionSport.ug editorial team compiles and edits sports coverage for Ugandan fans: the Uganda Premier League, the Cranes and the Premier League. Stories are drawn from official and reputable sources and checked before publishing.

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