THE 1998/99 RANKING: The Unnoticed Leap |
African Players in the German Bundesliga |
This is a component of | AFRICAN PLAYERS TO WATCH IN GERMANY |
by | THE SHOT THAT PASSED RIGHT THROUGH THE NET |
*rating average: how Germanies' most competent
football magazine 'kicker' rated the player each match (appearances under
30 minutes were not rated). The best rating is 1, the worst is 6.
**index is a value made of the number of
mnatches and the ratings. A suspension has a slight negative effect while
goals are not taken into account. 10 is a higher index than 9.
Rank | Player | Position | Country | Club | Matches | Goals | Red Cards | Rating Avg.* | INDEX ** | last year | tendency | comments |
1 | Anthony Yeboah | forward | Ghana | (7) Hamburger SV | 34 | 14 | - | 3,4 | 10,0 | 5,3 | +4,7 | stays one more year |
2 | Radwan Yasser | midfield | Egypt | (13) Hansa Rostock | 33 | 1 | - | 3,4 | 9,7 | 6,1 | +3,6 | stays |
3 | Zoubaier Baya | midfield | Tunisia | (12) SC Freiburg | 32 | 6 | - | 3,3 | 9,7 | 2nd Bundesliga | stays | |
4 | Delron Buckley | midfield/ forward | South Africa | (17) VfL Bochum | 33 | 5 | - | 3,7 | 8,9 | 1,4 | +7,5 | Bochum relegated
future uncertain |
5 | Hany Ramzy | defender | Egypt | (5) 1.FC Kaiserslautern | 32 | 3 | - | 3,6 | 8,9 | 6,8 | +2,1 | stays |
6 | Charles Akonnor | midfield | Ghana | (6) VfL Wolfsburg | 32 | 6 | - | 3,7 | 8,6 | 2nd Bundesliga | stays | |
7 | Pablo Thiam | defender/ midfield | Guinea | (11) VfB Stuttgart | 27 | 2 | 1 | 3,3 | 7,9 | 7,0 | +0,9 | stays |
8 | Adel Sellimi | forward | Tunisia | (12) SC Freiburg | 30 | 1 | - | 3,9 | 7,7 | new | stays | |
9 | Abderrahim Ouakili | midfield/ forward | Morocco | (9) Munich 1860 | 27 | 3 | - | 3,8 | 7,1 | 3,4 | +3,7 | changes to Tennis Borussia Berlin (2nd Bundesliga) |
10 | Bachirou Salou | forward | Togo | (4) Borussia Dortmund | 26 | 5 | - | 3,8 | 6,8 | 10,0 | -3,2 | stays |
11 | Jonathan Akpoborie | forward | Nigeria | (11) VfB Stuttgart | 28 | 11 | - | 4,2 | 6,7 | 8,6 | -1,9 | changes to VfL Wolfsburg |
12 | Victor Agali | forward | Nigeria | (13) Hansa Rostock | 22 | 6 | 1 | 3,4 | 6,2 | new | had a sensational second half, stays | |
13 | Bradley Carnell | defender/ midfield left | South Africa | (11) VfB Stuttgart | 20 | 2 | - | 3,4 | 5,9 | new | stays | |
14 | Mehdi Ben Slimane | forward | Tunisia | (12) SC Freiburg | 22 | 1 | - | 4,0 | 5,5 | 2nd Bundesliga | stays | |
15 | Samir Kamouna | defender | Egypt | (5) 1.FC Kaiserslautern | 19 | 1 | - | 4,1 | 4,6 | new | stays | |
16 | Boubacar Diarra | defender | Mali | (12) SC Freiburg | 16 | 0 | 1 | 3,3 | 4,5 | 2nd Bundesliga | stays | |
17 | Samuel Osei Kuffour | defender | Ghana | (1) Bayern München | 15 | 0 | 1 | 3,5 | 4,0 | 5,0 | -1,0 | stays (a bit unceratin) |
18 | Mohamed Emara | midfield left | Egypt | (13) Hansa Rostock | 14 | 0 | - | 4,0 | 3,5 | new | stays | |
19 | Alphonse Tchami | forward | Cameroon | (3) Hertha BSC Berlin | 11 | 2 | - | 4,3 | 2,6 | 4,7 | -2,1 | uncertain |
20 | Ibrahim Tanko | midfield/ forward | Ghana | (4) Borussia Dortmund | 7 | 0 | - | 4,5 | 1,6 | 0,6 | +1,0 | ? |
21 | Mamadou Diallo | forward | Senegal | (8) MSV Duisburg | 7 | 0 | - | 4,7 | 1,5 | new | leaves | |
22 | Mourad Bounoua | midfield | Morocco | (15) Eintracht Frankfurt | 7 | 0 | - | 5,0 | 1,4 | new | changes to Eintracht Braunschweig (Regionalliga (=3rd level) | |
23 | Miguel Francisco Pereira | forward | Angola | (10) Schalke 04 | 5 | 0 | - | 5,0 | 1,0 | 0,0 | +1,0 | uncertain |
24 | Pascal Ojigwe | midfield | Nigeria | (5) 1.FC Kaiserslautern | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4,0 | 0,8 | 0,0 | +0,8 | played some Champions League and is regular player for the 2nd team, stays |
25 | Henry Nwosu | forward | Nigeria | (15) Eintracht Frankfurt | 4 | 0 | - | - | 0 | new | leaves | |
26 | Ahmed Salah Hosny | forward | ? | (11) VfB Stuttgart | 2 | 0 | - | - | 0 | new | ? (regular player for 2nd team) | |
27 | Awudu Issaka | defender | Ghana | (9) Munich 1860 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | new | ? |
some data:
number of Africans who played: 26 (last year: 18)
number of high indexed African players (Index > 7.5): 8 (last year:
2)
number of Africans as regular players for their teams (2/3 of the matches
or more): 11 (last year: 7),
number of African players relegated with their clubs*: 1 (last year:
3) (*regardless whether they will stay or not)
number of African players becoming champion with their clubs: 1 (last
year: 1)
number of Bundesliga teams with no African player: 4 (Bayer Leverkusen,
Werder Bremen, 1.FC Nürnberg, Borussia Mönchengladbach) (last
year: 4)
(Werder Bremen lost its African player and dropped from 7 to 13, VfL
Wolfsburg won one and moved up to 6)
number of Bundesliga teams in which African players reached an aggregated
total of more than 34 matches: 4 (1.FC Kaiserslautern (55), VfB Stuttgart
(77), SC Freiburg (100), Hansa Rostock(69))
last year there had been no team with more than 2 African players and
the highest number had been 38 matches aggregated (Abedi Pele and Ouakili
at Munich 60).
1998/99 there were 2 teams with 4 players (VfB Stuttgart, SC Freiburg)
and 2 teams with 3 players from the African continent (1.FC Kaiserslautern,
Hansa Rostock)
Top rated African Of the 2nd division:
2nd league not yet finished
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