“Tony Baffoe denies Tony Yeboah’s claims about Black Stars captaincy”

 

Ex-Black Stars defender, Anthony Baffoe has rubbished claims by former teammate Anthony Yeboah that he refused to hand over the captain’s armband despite pleas from the latter’s management ahead of the 1992 Afcon final against Côte d’Ivoire.

Following the suspension of Abedi Pele, Tony Baffoe was handed the captain’s armband ahead of Tony Yeboah who was the deputy to the Maestro.

According to former Leeds United striker Anthony Yeboah he revealed that Baffoe did not deserve to be named captain of the side as that was his first tournament and there were older-serving Black Stars players like himself.

Yeboah then claimed that Baffoe refused to hand him the captain’s armband despite calls from his manager to do so.

The current CAF deputy secretary, who shared a room with Abedi Pele during the tournament stated that he never had a conversation with The Maestro on the captaincy.

“Let me reveal something interesting. People thought Abedi Pele had a hand in my selection as captain. Abedi never mentioned anything about captaincy to me and this I can assure you”.

Contrary to the account of Tony Yeboah, Baffoe stated that he was never contacted by Yeboah’s management team and that reports was untrue.

“I didn’t have a manager, I worked with a lawyer. To set the record straight, I saw an interview that Anthony Yeboah said his manager called me to speak to me and management to hand the armband to him. No body called me. It is not true”.

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