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Top 3 Best Football Players in Nigeria
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Nigeria has produced so many great players over the decades, but who is the standout footballer to ever come out of a football-crazed nation?
In this article, we take a look at the top 10 players in Nigerian football’s storied history.
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- Steven Keshi
Steven Keshi is one of only two people to win the African Cup of Nations as a player and manager, the other being the Egyptian Mahmoud El-Gohari who won the tournament in 1994 as captain and in 2013 as manager of the Eagles.
Big Boss, as he was affectionately known, also captained Nigeria to its first US World Championship in 1994. He made 64 appearances for the Eagles, scoring 9 goals.
At club level, Keshi played for a number of Nigerian clubs, his longest tenure at the New Nigerian Bank and also spent a lot of time in Belgium, especially at Anderlecht, which he represented between 1987 and 1991.
In addition to leading Nigeria to an AFCON triumph in 2013, Keshi had other great managerial feats, the most notable being the selection of lowly Togo for their first World Cup in Germany in 2006.
- Jay Jay Okocha
With magical legs and unrivaled creativity, Austin JJ Okocha is probably the most naturally gifted footballer to ever play for Nigeria.
Okocha didn’t win as many titles and awards as his talents deserved, but he won the Nations Cup with the Eagles in 1994 and was part of the team that won the gold medal in Atlanta in 1996.
He came close on many other occasions as well, finishing second with the Eagles at the 2000 AFCON and then winning three consecutive AFCON Bronze medals in 2002, 2004 and 2006.
Okocha also did not have much luck with individual awards, as he never claimed the prestigious African Footballer of the Year award.
He played for Frankfurt in Germany in particular and for French team Paris Saint-Germain, joining the Parisians for an African record transfer fee after the 1998 World Cup, but it is for the unfashionable English team Bolton Wanderers that he may have had the greatest impact in Europe. .
With Okocha pulling the strings in the middle, Bolton became an established Premier League team and even reached the EFL Cup Final, which they lost to Middlesbrough.
Okocha may not have won as much as some of his contemporaries, but he will always be one of the most talented players to ever play this beautiful game.
- Nwankwo Kanu
Nwankwo Kanu is one of the most decorated players in Nigerian history.
The lanky forward had already captained the Nigerian national team and won worldwide glory at the 1993 Under-1993 World Youth Championship in Japan at 17, but he rose to new heights in 1996 when he inspired a dream team to win a football event at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Despite all his success at the junior level, Kanu, surprisingly, never claimed titles at the senior international level. The closest he came to this was a heartbreaking final with a runner-up finish at the 2000 African Cup of Nations co-hosted by Nigeria and Ghana.
He scored 12 goals in 86 matches for Nigeria.
What he lacked in trophies with the Super Eagles, he more than made up for at club level.
Kanu is one of the few Nigerians to have won a UEFA Champions League winner’s medal. He helped Ajax win the title in 1995 and also won the UEFA Cup in 1998 during his brief stint with Inter Milan.
Kanu earned trophies at Arsenal, winning two league titles and three FA Cups with the Gunners, and in 2008 he added another cup triumph with Portsmouth. famously scoring the winning goal in the final.
For all these feats, he was named African Footballer of the Year in 1996 and 1999.