/ 27 February 2000

YEKINI RETURNS TO AFRICA

FORMER African Footballer of the Year Rashidi Yekini from Nigeria has rejoined African Cup Winners Cup holders Africa Sports of Cote d’Ivoire. A club official said on Sunday Yekini signed a three-year contract with the Abidjan club where he spent three seasons before leaving in 1989 for Europe and the Middle East. Yekini was voted 1994 Footballer of the Year by the African Football Confederation after helping his country win the Nations Cup and qualify for the World Cup.