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A erstwhile Super Eagles midfielder Henry Nwosu has died astatine the property of 62 years.
Nwosu’s erstwhile teammate, Segun Odegbami, announced this connected his societal media leafage connected Saturday.
Nwosu was portion of the squad that won the 1980 Africa Cup of Nations, hosted by Nigeria successful Lagos.
“Henry Nwosu passes on!
“After 5 days successful infirmary battling for his life, the 1 I telephone ‘Youngest Millionaire’ passed connected astatine 4:00 americium this greeting astatine the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, wherever helium had been successful intensive attraction since Wednesday.
“It is with heavy symptom successful my bosom that I person to beryllium the conveyor of the quality of the decease of Henry Nwosu, MON. May helium remainder peacefully with our Creator successful Heaven,” Odegbami wrote.
Nwosu, who was the youngest subordinate of the 1980 AFCON squad, was wide celebrated for his relation successful Nigeria’s triumph astatine the Africa Cup of Nations, wherever the nationalist team, past known arsenic ‘Green Eagles’, secured the archetypal continental rubric connected location soil.
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