Nigeria largely failed to live up to their hype in France, but the captivating playmaker was a joy to behold with his eye-catching glut of tricks
Nigeria’s 1998 World Cup campaign will likely be remembered for the Super Eagles’ failure to push on from their encouraging showing four years before, where they came within minutes of advancing to the quarter-final on their debut at the finals.
In the competition held in France, the Super Eagles, under the management of Bora Milutinovic, couldn’t kick on from an impressive 3-2 victory over Group D top seeds Spain, who suffered the ignominy of an early exit.