The forward’s ‘commitment issues’ affected the Panthers’ Nations Cup prospects, and lessons must be learned
Gabon’s troubled Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign, which ended in failure at the weekend amidst tensions surrounding their star man Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, must be a lesson for some of Africa's biggest teams.
As has been the case before, a superstar player has found himself playing in a national team with the kind of players he wouldn’t usually be rubbing shoulders with at international level.
It’s a dynamic that, to one degree or another, has been experienced by all of Africa’s top national sides, with many simultaneously containing players who ply their trade in local leagues, in some of the world’s backwaters, and some of the planet’s top divisions.