Guinea against Guinea. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.
Guinea · 2000s · CB
Forty thousand Celtic fans picked Baldé as the club's first Player of the Year in 2003, the season the 1.96m centre-back played 12 of their 13 UEFA Cup ties on the road to the final in Seville. He won five Scottish league titles, three Scottish Cups and two League Cups at Parkhead, lost that final 3-2 to Porto, and took 52 caps to four Africa Cup of Nations with Guinea. Career record: 52 caps and 2 goals for Guinea; club career at Toulouse, Celtic, AC Arles.
Guinea · 1998–2021 · ST
Arsène Wenger gave him his Arsenal debut against Chelsea on 31 January 1999, and he was gone by the summer with twelve league games and not one goal. Bordeaux's 1998-99 French title heads the list, taken in the season he left them, along with beaten Coupe de la Ligue finals for Bordeaux and Paris Saint-Germain, eight goals in twenty-one Guinea caps, and the Guinea head coach's job from October 2021. Career record: 13 caps and 6 goals for Guinea; club career at Sporting Toulon Var, FC Girondins de Bordeaux, AC Arles.
The almanac cannot separate them: both are rated 82.
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