Goal has ranked Sunday Mba as the 24
best player of the 2013 football year
ahead of the likes of Ibrahimovic,
Suarez, Isco, Mata and Lampard. Hazard
and Oscar didn’t even make the list.
This is a first time ranking for Mba in the
annual goalcom top 50 after he became a
revelation for the super eagle’s in the
recently concluded AFCON which he scored
to clinch the title.
When Keshi decided to take Mba along with
five other home based players to the AFCON
tournament he had a lot of raised eyebrows
but the 24-year-old played better than many
of the nation’s more heralded foreign
contingent.
Having started the tournament on the bench,
Mba was Nigeria’s hero in the knockout
stages. He scored the winner in the quarter-
final against Cote d’Ivoire to spell the end for
Didier Drogba’s trophyless ‘golden
generation’. Then in the final itself, Mba fired
home the only goal against Burkina Faso to
gift Nigeria their first Afcon title since 1994.
The 24-year-old was also one of Nigeria’s best
performers at the Confederations Cup and
has helped to draw attention to the depth of
talent in the Nigerian league.

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