Zohran Mamdani’s footballing tastes are closely linked to Arsenal, but the New York mayor made an exception when asked about the best African player in history. At the end of the 2025 African Cup of Nations and the victory of Sadio Mané’s Senegal, the debate to determine the greatest footballer in the history of the continent is intense. The Senegalese’s second success gives him a place of choice in the pantheon, but Zohran Mamdani places several names ahead of that of the former Liverpool Red.
“As an Arsenal fan, I was traumatized by Didier Drogba,” he said without giving his vote to the Ivorian. While a list of players was presented to him gradually, the American councilor had to eliminate the names one by one. In passing, he displayed his culture and his advanced references on the discipline, on the sidelines of the broadcast of the final won by the Lions against Morocco (1-0, ap).
A former PSG
“Mo Salah is the only one to have a halal truck named in his honor in Astoria (a neighborhood in New York)launched the 34-year-old politician, before favoring Jay-Jay Okocha over the Egyptian. “He is so great that we nominated him twice and for the superb publicity he did for the CAN, which always stays in my mind,” he justified.
But ultimately, at the moment of the final choice, Zohran Mamdani opted for a former Paris Saint-Germain player, Ballon d’Or in 1995 and president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Despite these accomplishments, the mayor pointed out another argument for selecting George Weah. “It has to be George Weah because he is the father of a New Yorker who grew up on Staten Island, shout out to Timothy Weah. » Another former Parisian.
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