📸 Michael Essien's new statue is the weirdest one yet | OneFootball

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Dan Burke·3 January 2018

📸 Michael Essien's new statue is the weirdest one yet

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If you thought Cristiano Ronaldo and Diego Maradona’s statues were bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Milan midfielder Michael Essien has had a monument erected in his honour in his native Ghana and it’s interesting to say the least.


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Essien, who currently plays for Indonesian side Persib Bandung, has been capped almost 60 times for his country and his statue was created by a local artist in the city of Kumasi.

We knew he was a good footballer, but we never knew he was an extraterrestrial!