Super Eagles goal-king named among Saudi Arabia’s best

The Nigerian worldwide ahead tasted league success for the primary time since his travels overseas

Former Manchester United striker Odion Ighalo has been included within the Staff of the Season for the Saudi Arabia Professional League.

Ighalo loved a superb 2021-22 marketing campaign, as he performed a vital half in serving to Al Hilal elevate the league title on the final day.

The Nigerian worldwide was by a ways one of the best striker within the Saudi Arabian high flight, ending high of the scoring chart with 24 targets. His closest rivals, Al Ittihad’s Romarinho and Al Nassr’s Talisca, each had 20 targets.

Ighalo netted 12 targets in 18 video games for Al Shabab within the first half of the season. The Watford hero then switched to Al Hilal in January and fired one other dozen in 13 matches to energy the Asian Galacticos to the championship crown.

It was Ighalo’s first main trophy since shifting abroad virtually twenty years in the past.

Regardless of a troublesome childhood, Ighalo left Nigeria for Norway in 2007 after making an affect with Prime FC and Julius Berger FC.

The 33-year-old has since performed for Lyn Oslo, Udinese, Cesena, Granada, Watford, and Manchester United.

After Ighalo moved to Asia in 2017, he featured for Chinese language sides Changchun Yatai and Shanghai Shenhua earlier than arriving in Saudi Arabia two years in the past.