Former Super Eagles midfielder, Henry Nwosu, is dead.
Nwosu, a member of 1980 Africa Cup of Nations winner, died few months to his 63rd birthday.
The news of his death was announced on Saturday morning by ex-Nigerian international and fellow 1980 AFCON winner, Segun Odegbami, via a post on his Facebook page.
Odegbami, in the post, disclosed that the Eagles star died at about 4:00 a.m. on Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos, where he had been receiving treatment.
According to him, Nwosu had been in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit since Wednesday after battling for his life for several days.
Odegbami wrote on his Facebook page,
“It is with deep pain in my heart that I have to be the conveyor of the news of the death of Henry Nwosu, MON.
“After five days in hospital battling for his life, the one I call ‘Youngest Millionaire’ passed on at 4:00 a.m. this morning at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, where he had been in Intensive Care since Wednesday.”
Nwosu’s death came few days after the demise of former Super Eagles coach, Adegboye Onigbinde.
Nwosu played for the now defunct African Continental Bank (ACB) FC of Lagos, and was the youngest member of Nigeria’s historic Green Eagles squad that won the country’s first Africa Cup of Nations title in 1980 on home soil.
