NOTABLE NIGERIAN FOOTBALLER: PHILIP OSONDU

Philip Osondu was named Most Valuable player at the FIFA U16 World Cup. At the time, he was 16 years old. When he first got invited to the Eagles in 1981, Philip Osondu was in the same team but both got dropped after the first phase of camping before qualifiers for the 1982 Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup began.

However, Osondu, after a sparkling performance at the U16 World Cup in 1987, was signed on by Anderlecht and was supposed to be a player for the future. He managed to play in the U20 World Cup in two years (1989) as an 18 year old, but two years later, Osondu could no longer play football actively . After he left Andelecht, he started selling African fabrics  at the airport in Brussels and later on became a cleaner in the same airport.

Source: Nairaland