African soccer icon, Kanu Nwankwo has been named in The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS)’s 50 World’s Soccer Legends List. This honour comes 4 and 5 years after he hung his boots for country and club.
Football heavyweights also featured in the list are Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pele), Diego Armando Maradona, Edson Arantes Do Nascimento (PELE) of Brazil.
IFFSH Top 50 list of Legends
Arthur Antunes Coimbra (Zico) of Brazil
Late Manuel Francisco dos Santos (Garrincha) of Brazil
Ronaldo Luís Nazário De Lima (Ronaldo) of Brazil
Franz Anton Beckenbauer (Beckenbauer) of Germany
GERD MÜLLER (Gerd) of Germany
Lothar Matthäus of Germany
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (Johan Cruyff) of Netherlands
Marco Van Basten (Marco) of Netherlands
Ruud Gullit OON of Netherlands
Bobby Charlton (Bobby) of United Kingdom
David Robert Joseph Beckham (David Beckham) of United Kingdom
Late STANLEY MATTHEWS of United Kingdom
Diego Armando Maradona Franco (Maradona) of Argentina
Late Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé of Argentina
HAO HAIDONG of China
Sun Jihai of China
Mahmoud El-Khatib (Bibo) of Egypt
Mohamed Aboutrika of Egypt
Michel Platini of France
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (Zizou) of France
Antonio Carbajal (Tota) of Mexico
Hugo Sánchez Márquez (Sánchez) of Mexico
Eusébio da Silva Ferreira (Eusébio) of Portugal
Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo (Luis Figo) of Portugal
Dino Zoff of Italy
Roberto Baggio of Italy
Mustapha Rabah Madjer (Rabah Madjer) of Algeria
Albert Roger Mooh Miller (Roger Milla) of Cameroon
Late Ferenc Puskás of Hungary
Baichung Bhutia (Bhutia) of India
Ali Daei of Iran
Hidetoshi Nakata of Japan
Cha Bum-kun (Tscha Bum) of South Korea
Jasem Yaqoub Sultan Al-Besara of Kuwait
George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah (George Weah) of Liberia
Wynton Alan Whai Rufer of New Zealand
Nwankwo Kanu of Nigeria
José Luis Félix Chilavert González (José Luis Chilavert) of Paraguay
Late Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Lev Yashin) of Russia
Majed Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mohammed (Majed Abdullah) of Saudi Arabia
Francisco Gento Lopez (Paco) of Spain
Tanju Çolak of Turkey
Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin of Ukraine
Late Juan Alberto Schiaffino Villano (Pepe) of Uruguay
Landon Timothy Donovan of USA
Lucas Valeriu Ntuba Radebe (Lucas Radebe) of South Africa
Ryan Joseph Giggs (Ryan Giggs) of Wales
Unarguably one of Nigeria’s most decorated footballers, Kanu kicked off his career in 1993 when he featured for the Golden Eaglets in a Fifa U17 World Championship qualifier in Kaduna.
He has laced his boots for teams like Ajax, Inter Milan, Arsenal, West Brom and Portsmouth.
His list of honors
U17 World Cup winner- 1993
Uefa Champions League -1995
Uefa Super Cup- 1995
Uefa Cup- 1998
Dutch League title- 1994, 95, 96
African Footballer of the year- 1996, 1999
English Premier League – 2002, 2004
English FA Cup -2002, 2003, 2008
Olympic Gold- 1996