Ivorian footballing icon Yaya Toure is having a time of his life cheating on his wife of fourteen years with one Tanika, an up and coming musician.
Unless what we are seeing online is a scene from a movie the two is shooting but we know better than to tickle ourselves and burst into laughter.
As a devout Muslim, Yaya Toure is forbidden from consuming any form of alcohol, so you can imagine our collective surprise when he was convicted on drunk driving charges and banned from driving for 18 months.
Toure was returning with friends from a party when he was stopped by police and his blood alcohol level was found to be twice the legal limit.
Ivorian national team captain Yaya Toure has announced he’s retiring from the international game after 12 years representing his country.
33 year old Toure announced the news with a post on his official website Tuesday.
A lot of sore losers seem to be emerging after the award of this year’s African Player of the Year.
Yaya Toure, who has won this award four times, has already cried his river, and it is now the turn of Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan.
Sour Grapes. Salty. Cry Baby. Chaaii why is this guy behaving like a stroppy teen? You’ve already won the award four consecutive times and you are already having a meltdown because you lost on your fifth attempt?? After losing the coveted African Player of The Year award to Gabon’s Pierre Aubameyang, the Ivorian National Football Team … Read more
The final list of players to contest for the 2015 African Player of the Year Award has been revealed, and Ghana’s Andre Ayew makes the final three man list.
Ayew would be vying for the top award with Ivorian Yaya Toure and Gabonese speedster Pierre Emerick Aubameyang.
Ivorian international midfielder Yaya Toure, has been crowned as the BBC African Footballer of the Year for the second time.
Yaya Toure beat the likes of of Yacine Brahimi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Sadio Mane and our own Andre Ayew to clinch the 2015 title.
A very successful year chock full of recognitions for Andre Dede Ayew continues as he makes another awards list shortlist- this time for the BBC African Footballer of the Year Award.
The award is given by the British broadcaster to the best African player in the year under review, and runs concurrently with CAF’s African Footballer of the Year award.
Four time winner Lionel Messi and three time winner and defending champion, Cristiano Ronaldo; lead the 23 man shortlist for the 2015 world footballer of the year award. The list, compiled by football experts from the FIFA Football Committee and a group of experts from France Football; would be voted on by the coaches and … Read more
Andre Ayew and Christian Atsu are the only Ghanaians to make it onto the fifty man list for the African player of the year award for 2015.
The two wingers, who appear for Swansea City and Bournemouth respectively in the English Premier League, both make the list after their heroics at the last African Cup of Nations, where they helped Ghana finish second. Atsu was adjudged the overall best player of the entire tournament.
Well it does run in the family, doesn’t it?
A 31 year old Paris woman, Mariam Camara, has made a series of blistering allegations to the Sun. The shop worker was Toure’s girlfriend whilst they were teenagers back in Cote d’Ivoire, but fell out of contact when he went to Europe to make his name as one of the world’s best midfielders.
Manchester City’s Yaya Toure has once again been named Confederation of African Football African Footballer of the Year—this is his fourth winning in four years in a row.
Yaya Toure’s nomination came after helping Ivory Coast qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and also after playing a central role in winning the Premier League and League Cup at his club.
In winning the CAF footballer of the year, Toure, 31 beat off the challenge of Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Cameroonian footballer-Samuel Eto’o has also won the African Footballer of the Year award four times but his achievement was not in a row.
Full list of winners…
After winning BBC’s Africa footballer of the year in December, Ivory Coast’s Yaya Toure has today been named Confederation of African Football (Caf) Footballer of the Year…
Yaya Toure was up against fellow Ivorian Didier Drogba, of Galatasaray, and Nigeria and Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi.
According to BBC;
Toure, 30, emulates Abedi Pele and Samuel Eto’o with a hat-trick of wins…
Ghanaian Abedi Pele won three in a row between 1991-93 while Cameroonian Eto’o took the award from 2003-05.
Toure may not have won a major trophy for club and country last year but his class has shone through at both domestic level and for the Elephants of Ivory Coast.
He was honoured at a ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday.
Toure’s form also led to him being the only African to be included on the 23-man shortlist for Fifa’s World Player of the Year.
