Super Eagles: Victor Ikpeba names greatest player to have ever played for Nigeria

Former Super Eagles star, Victor Ikpeba, has named the top subordinate to person ever donned the Nigerian jersey.

According to Ikpeba, erstwhile captain, Christian Chukwu, who passed distant successful April 2025, and astir notably remembered for starring Nigeria to their inaugural Africa Cup of Nations triumph successful 1980, is the greatest.

DAILY POST reports that successful summation to Chukwu’s playing career, helium made important contributions to Nigerian shot arsenic a coach, moving with some the Golden Eaglets and the Super Eagles.

At the nine level, Chukwu played a important relation successful the Rangers squad that secured the African Cup Winners’ Cup, triumphing implicit the esteemed Cameroonian broadside Canon Yaoundé successful the 1977 final.

When asked to place the top subordinate to deterioration the Super Eagles jersey, Ikpeba said connected SuperSport’s Monday Night Football:

“Christian Chukwu. He was the archetypal prima to triumph the Africa Cup of Nations. An iconic player, I witnessed him play arsenic a young boy. During that time, determination were galore talents similar Muda Lawal.”

The erstwhile Monaco guardant elaborated, “In my era, opportunities were abundant: the 1994 team, the squad that won the Olympics, and the 2013 Afcon-...