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Premier League legend Yaya Toure opens up about his dreams as a football coach.
Manchester City legend Yaya Toure has expressed his desire to match the late Super Eagles icon Stephen Keshi’s AFCON feat.
The 40-year-old retired midfielder is now on a career path to be a manager and is currently an assistant coach at Belgian Pro League side Standard Liege, and recently revealed his lofty ambitions.
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What Yaya Toure said
Since the inception of the AFCON in 1957, only two individuals have won the competition as players and as managers, the late Keshi and Egypt's Mahmoud El-Gohary.
El-Gohary won the tournament as a player in 1958 and then coached the Pharaohs to the title in 1998. The Big Boss, on the other hand, led the Super Eagles to their third AFCON triumph in 2013 as a coach after captaining the Nigerian team to the 1994 title.
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Yaya Toure, after several tries, became an African champion in 2015 as captain of Ivory Coast and in a recent conversation on the BBC Match of the Day Africa's Top 10 Greatest Afcon Manager podcast’ he revealed that he also wanted to win it as a coach, becoming only the third person to achieve it.
He also revealed that he had been offered the opportunity to coach the Elephants previously, but he passed on the chance.
"Definitely, definitely,” he replied when asked if he had AFCON-winning aspirations as a coach.
“Because a few years ago, there was a chance to be manager of the national team. Myself, I didn't see me [doing it] in that moment, but it was an option.
"A lot of friends asked me to do it, but I didn't want to do that. After that, [jobs] came up in Europe, and I preferred to coach here [in Europe]. But let's see what's going on. I'm definitely up to it."
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