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Legendary Asante Kotoko midfielder, Stephen Oduro bemoans failure to lift an African club competition title with the Kumasi-based side.
Stephen Oduro, aka Tikotiko laments that the thought of it always haunts him especially losing CAF’s Winners Cup and Confederations Cup in 2002 and 2004 to Wydad Athletic and rivals Hearts of Oak respectively.
The 37-year-old after his move to Asante Kotoko in the 2000 season had a stellar career till his retirement from football.
He played for both the Black Stars(with one cap) and the Black Starlets in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Cup in New Zealand.
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Stephen Oduro is easily one of Asante Kotoko’s best players in the last two decades.
Oduro further states in a quote available to footballghana.com that Asante Kotoko had what it should have won them the continental trophy and that still worries him.
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“I still feel disappointed not to win Africa. I had wanted to do something remarkable for the club so I will be remembered when I’m no more”
“We won all the trophies for Kotoko except Africa and that is the only trophy the life Patron, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II wanted since it has eluded him for a long time”
“So after losing to both Wydad and Hearts I became frustrated because I had wanted to write my name into the books of players that have won Africa for Kotoko”
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