The badge of Africa’s club of the century, Kumasi Asante Kotoko has been ranked as the 21st best badge in world football by football magazine FourFourTwo.
Kotoko is ranked 21st on the list in a list that includes Ajax, Sampdoria, Guangzhou Evergrande, Liverpool, AS Roma, Inter Milan, Orlando Pirates, Boca Juniors and other clubs across the globe.
With Ajax ranked as the best football team with the best badge, Kotoko and South Africa’s Orlando Pirates are the only African clubs to have made the list with Pirates coming ahead of Kotoko and Italian giants Inter Milan in 16th place.
‘There’s only one way to start: with an evil porcupine. Ghana’s Asante Kotoko was named Africa’s Club of the Century in 2000 by football nerd-do-wells IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics), ostensibly based on results. We know the real reason: that porcupine struck terror into IFFHS’s cold, mathematical hearts. After all, the club’s motto means, ‘Kill a thousand and a thousand more will come’. A-porc-alypse!
Kotoko also have an unofficial nickname that has previously resulted in the proposed building of a Fabulous Arena, and their women’s team being called Fabulous Ladies of Asante Kotoko. Which is just delightful,’ they wrote about Kotoko’s badge.
After the introduction of the new badge by Kotoko’s rival Accra Hearts of Oak, would Hearts get on the list should FourFourTwo review it?
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