Former Nigeria national football team midfielder Henry Nwosu has died at the age of 62.
His death was announced by his former teammate Segun Odegbami on social media on Saturday.
Nwosu was a member of the Nigerian team that won the 1980 Africa Cup of Nations, which was held in Lagos. He was the youngest member of the squad, then known as the Green Eagles, that secured Nigeria’s first continental title on home soil.
Confirming the news, Odegbami wrote: “After five days in hospital battling for his life, the one I call ‘Youngest Millionaire’ passed on at 4:00 am this morning at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, where he had been in intensive care since Wednesday.”
He added, “It is with deep pain in my heart that I have to be the conveyor of the news of the de@th of Henry Nwosu, MON. May he rest peacefully with our Creator in Heaven.”
Nwosu was widely celebrated for his contributions to Nigerian football, particularly for his role in the historic 1980 AFCON victory.
