NFF President Gusua sends Get well message to Ailing Henry Nwosu

Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, yesterday, visited former Nigeria captain, Henry Nwosu, on the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, the place the legend has been receiving remedy for an undisclosed ailment for some weeks now.

Nwosu, the youngest participant within the Nigeria squad that received the Africa Cup of Nations title on house soil in 1980, had been within the hospital for a while now, with prime politicians, captains of trade and soccer chieftains all displaying curiosity in his well being standing.

“I can guarantee you that each one Nigerians, from our political leaders to enterprise gurus and all soccer folks, are fascinated with seeing you recuperate from this sickness. Everybody, inside Nigeria and within the diaspora, is praying on your restoration and eventual recuperation,” Gusau instructed the legend within the hospital situated within the Delta State capital.

Nwosu, a formidable drive within the senior males’s nationwide crew of Nigeria within the Nineteen Eighties, performed in three Africa Cup of Nations finals (1980, 1984 and 1988) and was top-of-the-line gamers of the 1984 and 1988 editions, each of which Nigeria misplaced to Cameroun within the Remaining.

He scored a stellar purpose towards the Indomitable Lions within the 1988 remaining in Morocco, disallowed by Mauritanian referee Idrissa Sarr, and that incident stays one of many evergreen speaking factors within the 65-year historical past of Africa’s flagship soccer championship. Cameroun went on to win by the odd purpose scored from the penalty spot within the second half.