Keeping it in the family
Andre "Dede" Ayew's grandfather did not play football but the odds are he might have been pretty handy had he done so.
For three of his sons all played internationally for Ghana, including Abedi "Pele" Ayew, a man widely recognised as one of the greats of African football.
Amazingly, Abedi himself has repeated the feat, with his three sons - Rahim, Dede and the youngest Jordan - all having represented the Black Stars as well.
In fact, should Jordan, a club colleague of Dede's at Marseille, contest next month's Africa Cup of Nations finals, .
Born in Wimbledon, my enthusiasm for the global game was already sizeable before the tragic demise of the boys from SW19. Having covered football in over 50 countries, I've been working in the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's African sports section since the early noughties, recently spending three years in Africa to report on the run-up to the continent's first World Cup.
