CAF Names Simon, Ekong In 2021 AFCON Best 11For Group Stage

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Ndidi Makes Substitutes Bench

The Nigeria Super Eagles have three of their players included in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Group Stage Best 11 after an impressive performance so far at the tournament in Cameroon.

Only on Saturday statistics website Whoscored.com published its own version of the Group stage Best Eleven and the Confederation of African Football have come up with its official best players for the group stage.

The Nigeria Super Eagles were the only team that reached the only team that reached the last 16 round winning all group matches at the 33rd AFCON.

The CAF AFCON2021 Group Stage Best Xl included three Super Eagles trio of Moses Simon, William Troost-Ekong and Wilfred Ndidi.

Simon was the Man of the Match in the game against Sudan while William Troost Ekong won same prize in the match against Guinea-Bissau.

Ndidi has been the livewire of the team from his midfield position and it was a bit surprising that he only made the substitutes bench.

Mali’s Yves Bissouma was deemed by the Technical study group of the continental football controlling body as the best performing defensive midfielder in the group stage.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.