Finidi George: African Legend of the Week

In light of Ajax's sublime four-goal Europa League success, Goal honours one of the Dutch club's finest African stars...and a Champions League hero.

The Golden Age of Nigerian football had a couple of distinct features: Sunday Oliseh’s vision, Rashidi Yekini’s finishing, Jay-Jay Okocha’s trickery.

Arguably though, Finidi George ’s deliveries from wide areas came to be considered as much a calling card as any of the above; to this day, the former Ajax winger is revered as the gold standard for Nigerian widemen.