Jay Jay Okocha Is Among Telegraph's 100 Premier League Greatest Player

Ex-Nigerian international, Austin Jay-Jay Okocha is the only Nigerian and one of the 4 Africans to make Telegraph's list of 100 premier League greatest players. Africans on the list: Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure, JayJay Okocha and Lucas Radebe. The list was decided by a panel of experts including Henry Winter, Alan Smith, Jason Burt, Mark Ogden, Jeremy Wilson, Chris Bascombe, Luke Edwards, Jim White and Jonathan Liew.

100 Premier League greatest players list
(1) Ryan Giggs
(2) Thiery Henry
(3) Roy Keane
(4) Alan Shearer
(5) Paul Scholes
(6) Cristiano Ronaldo
(7) Patrick Vieira
( Eric Cantona
(9) Dennis Bergkamp
(10) Frank Lampard
(11) Steven Gerrard
(12) John Terry
(13) Peter Schmeichel
(14) Wayne Rooney
(15) Didier Drogba
(16) Ashley Cole
(17) Rio Ferdinand
(18) Luis Suarez
(19) Yaya Toure
(20) Tony Adams
(21) David Beckham
(22) Gary Neville
(23) Andy Cole
(24) Vincent Kompany
(25) Robert Pires
(26) Robbie Fowler
(27) Robin Van Persie
(28) Nemanja Vidic
(29) Gary Speed
(30) Gianfranco Zola
(31) Jaap Stam
(32) Gareth Bale
(33) David Seaman
(34) Matt Le Tissier
(35) Sergio Aguero
(36) Ian Wright
(37) Cesc Fabregas
(38) Teddy Sheringham
(39) Ruud Van Nistelrooy
(40) Jamie Carragher
(41) Claude Makelele
(42) Michael Owen
(43) Xabi Alonso
(44) Edwin Van Der Sar
(45) Dwight Yorke
(46) Dennis Irwin
(47) David Silva
(48) Sol Campbell
(49) Emmanuel Petit
(50) Les Ferdinand
(51) Mark Hughes
(52) Fernado Torres
(53) Pablo Zabaleta
(54) Sami Hyppia
(55) Patrice Evra
(56) Ledley King
(57) Jurgen Klinsmann
(58) Marcel Desailly
(59) Lee Dixon
(60) Branislav Ivanovic
(61) Gary Pallister
(62) Peter Cech
(63) David Ginola
(64) Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
(65) Carlos Tevez
(66) Steve Bruce
(67) Marc Overmars
(68) Luca Modric
(69) Nicky Butt
(70) Dimitar Berbatov
(71) Nicolas Anelka
(72) Steve McManaman
(73) Peter Beardsley
(74) Tim Cahill
(75) Ricardo Carvalho
(76) David Batty
(77) Michael Carrick
(78) Lucas Radebe
(79) Jimmy Floyd Hassel-baink
(80) Paul Ince
(81) Joe Hart
(82) Martin Keown
(83) Gus Poyet
(84) Graeme Le Saux
(85) Nigel Winterburn
(86) David James
(87) Roberto Di Matteo
(88) Pepe Reina
(89) Paolo Di Canio
(90) Shay Given
(91) Chris Sutton
(92) Robin Keane
(93) Jay-Jay Okocha
(94) Kevin Phillips
(95) Michael Ballack
(96) Freddie Ljungberg
(97) Tim Howard
(98) Phil Neville
(99) Scott Parker
(100) John Barnes

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Posted: at 20-10-2014 12:18 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

Big ups!

Posted: at 20-10-2014 01:51 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie

Where is Luis Suarez ??

 

Posted: at 20-10-2014 03:18 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

CONGRATS JAYJAY
BUT WHERE IS KANU NWANKOW'S NAME?

Posted: at 20-10-2014 04:04 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Ok

Posted: at 20-10-2014 05:34 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

U missed a name dere. As in a legend name ( Luis Suarez). This list is flopped I dnt welcome it.

Next news abeg.

Posted: at 20-10-2014 07:29 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Jay jay legend

Posted: at 20-10-2014 10:45 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

what happy to Kanu nwankwo, Adebayo, Micheal Essien, Ebue and Adebayo?

Posted: at 20-10-2014 10:51 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie

No Merci?

Posted: at 21-10-2014 01:48 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

big up ,,,,,,,,

Posted: at 21-10-2014 05:31 AM (9 years ago) | Hero