IKENWA NNABUOGOR
If gate crashing was this sweet for US’94 World Cup star Chidi Nwanu, the former Anderlecht defender needed not to prepare for this sweet surrender at all, after all, he, sure, had it coming.
Nwanu had been in the Eagles’ wilderness since the Olympics in Seoul in 1988 until coach Clemens Westerhof resurrected his ghosts and changed his gatecrasher mode to war veteran setting at US’94 as Nwanu shone like a million stars.
Nwanu’s arrival meant there was no place for Okechukwu Uche’s erstwhile pair, Uche Okafor, and the former SK Beveren star grabbed all the headlines as he recharged the Eagles’ batteries from the rear.
Having emerged the best from the stock gushing with African blood a year earlier in Belgium, the proud prestigious Ebony Shoe Award winner, Nwanu proved his achievement in the European city known for it’s bursting international seaport in Antwerp, was no fluke and emerged from the heat in Dallas and Birmingham, Alabama, smelling of roses.
World Cup champion, Diego Maradona, pictured below, was one of the best legs he encountered and Nwanu refused to show any nerves as he saw through a yeoman’s job on the mercurial former Barcelona superstar.
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Robert Baggio was sleeky, tricky, direct but met a very prepared but poorly experienced Nwanu who was slightly exposed in the high profile second round game that brutally stopped the Eagles’ flight.
Nwanu had his plate full in that busy and highly tensed Foxborough night but still held his head high to continually keep yours’ truly’s head ringing for beholding a re-emerging top star.
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