HARRY GORDON REFLECTS ON A PREDICTION BY PELE AND LOOKS FORWARD TO THE CONTINENT’S FUTURE...

Lion-heart: Roger Milla celebrates one of his two goals in Cameroon’s 2-1 win against Colombia in Italia ’90

Chelsea keeper Edouard Mendy

IN 1977, Pele predicted that an African nation would lift the greatest prize in football, the World Cup, by the year 2000.
Twenty-one years on from that milestone and the wait goes on, but there’s little doubt that African football is gradually growing stronger.
So far, the closest an African nation has come to glory in the World Cup is Cameroon in 1990, Sene...