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Stephen Appiah And Some African Football Stars Were Stuck In Turkey As Failed Coup Raged On

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Samuel Eto’o Fils was supposed to hold a charity match this weekend in Turkey, but that was before the military attempted a spectacularly failed coup that has been squashed by the regime of President Erdogan.
Most of the stars for the games hadn’t enplaned to Turkey just yet, but some others, including our former ‘captain fantastic’ Stephen Appiah, were already in country.
Alongside Marcel Dessaily Michael Essien, J.J Okocha and Kolo Toure, they had to wait out the coup.
The match has been cancelled now, initially planned for Antalya and set to feature stars such as Messi, Neymar, Luis Suarez, Diego Maradona, Eden Hazard, Francesco Totti, Xavi, Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, Andres Iniesta, Demba Ba, Didier Drogba and Arda Turan.
Turkish President Erdogan, believe it or not, was actually slated to appear at the game.
Proceeds from the match would have been donated to Samuel Eto’o’s charity, the Samuel Eto’o Private Foundation.



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