Gor against Djibuouti Telekom and Yanga versus Al Khartoum brought the CECAFA Kagame Cup 2015 group stages to conclusion, with Gor (on 10 points) finishing top of group A ahead of Yanga (nine).
One common characteric of the two matches was the wastefulness of Gor's and Yanga's strikers in front of goal. Although Gor beat Telekom 3-1, the score would have been higher with greater efficiency in finishing.
The same was the case with Yanga, who could only manage a 1-0 scoreline against Al Khartoum after the club's forwards squandered many scoring chances.
These performances only served to emphasize one important fact: quality strikers are in deed very valuable persons in the beautiful game. In Africa, especially, they have become very rare species.
This same continent has given to the football world the likes of Zambia's Kalusha Bwalia, Cameroon's Roger Millar and Samuel Etoo, Nigeria's Rashidi Yekini, Kanu Nwankwo, Austin Okocha and Daniel Amokachi, Egypt's Hossam Hassan, Ghana's Abedi Pele and Tony Yeboah, Liberia's George Weah, Morocco's Mustapha Hadji, Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba, Zimbabwe's Peter Ndlovu, and many others.
The most valued African players in European leagues recently have been midfielders - Yaya Toure, Cheick Tiote, Michael Essien, John Obi Mikel...what happened to the African striker species?
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