Ex-Senegal defender Ferdinand Coly regards former teammate El-Hadji Diouf as a “standard-bearer” who drove “opponents mad” in 2002 when the Teranga Lions enjoyed one of their best football times.
The Senegal Class of 2002 lost the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) final to Cameroon on penalties, before capturing global attention a few months later by reaching the Fifa World Cup quarter-finals in their debut tournament.
In a squad which included the likes of Khalilou Fadiga, captain Aliou Cisse, Henri Camara, Pape Bouba Dioup, Salif Diao and goalkeeper Tony Sylva, Coly has picked Diouf as the best player of that crop.