Sunday Mba

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Sunday Mba
Personal information
Full name Sunday Mba
Date of birth (1988-11-28) 28 November 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Aba, Nigeria
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Youth career
2004 Pepsi Football Academy
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2006 Enyimba
2007 Enugu Rangers
2007–2008 Enyimba
2008–2009 Enugu Rangers
2009–2010 Dolphins
2010–2013 Warri Wolves
2013 → Rangers (loan)
2014–2015 CA Bastia 43 (5)
2015–2017 Yeni Malatyaspor 54 (8)
International career‡
2012–2014 Nigeria 21 (5)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
Africa Cup of Nations
Winner 2013 South Africa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 July 2017
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 April 2014

Sunday Mba MON (born 28 November 1988) is a Nigerian footballer who last played as a attacking midfielder for Yeni Malatyaspor and the Nigeria national team. [1] [2]

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Club career

Mba joined Rangers on loan in May 2013 from Warri Wolves. He scored in his Rangers' debut, a 3–1 loss to Clube Recreativo Desportivo do Libolo in the 2013 CAF Champions League [3] He signed for Bastia in December after a drawn-out negotiation that lasted most of the year. [4]

In October 2019, after 2 years without a club, he said he wanted to return to active football. [5]

International career

He was a member of the Nigeria B team that won the 2010 WAFU Nations Cup. He made his senior debut in the Eagles' 0–0 tie against Angola in January 2012. He scored a brace against Liberia in his next game. [6]

He was called up to Nigeria's 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. [7] Mba scored the winning goal in Nigeria's 2–1 quarter-final win over Ivory Coast. On 10 February 2013, in the final against Burkina Faso, he scored the first and only goal of the game, to hand Nigeria their third Africa Cup of Nations title. [8]

He was selected for Nigeria's squad at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. [9]

Honours

Orders

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References

  1. ↑ AFCON 2013 hero Sunday Mba released by Turkish club‚ scorenigeria.com.ng, 9 September 2017
  2. ↑ "NEW PLAYERS AT THE NIGERIA NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM". WEST AFRICAN FOOTBALL. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "2013 CAF Champions League - Nigeria lone hope Rangers out - MTNFootball". Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sunday Mba quits CHAN for France - MTNFootball". Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sunday Mba: Nigeria's Nations Cup hero aims to return after two years out". BBC Sport. 17 October 2019.
  6. ↑ Stephen Fottrell (4 February 2013). "Super Eagles bounce back". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  7. ↑ Oluwashina Okeleji (10 January 2013). "Nations Cup 2013: Nigeria pick six locally-based players". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Nigeria v Burkina Faso – as it happened". Guardian UK. 10 February 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
  9. ↑ "Nigeria to take new-look squad to Confederations Cup". BBC Sport. 9 June 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
  10. ↑ Okeleji, Oluwashina (13 February 2013). "Presidential reward for Super Eagles". Sport. BBC. Lagos. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
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