The next African superstar?
He's one of football's hottest properties, with a host of top clubs chasing him, so will Papiss Demba Cisse be the next African to take the European game by storm?
The Senegalese is having what he calls an 'extraordinary season', which is why reports are constantly linking the Freiburg striker , particularly Arsenal.
and the relative obscurity of the French second division in December 2009, Cisse has turned into one of the most feared strikers in the Bundesliga where the 25-year-old despite playing for unfashionable Freiburg.
Last Saturday, as the southern German side beat Hoffenheim 3-2, Cisse netted his 20th league strike of the season - so equalling Tony Yeboah's long-standing African record in Germany while also going a goal clear of Bayern Munich's Mario Gomez.
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 91Èȱ¬'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.
