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Yakubu Aiyegbeni has retired from
football and tributes have been pouring
in for Nigeria’s third all-time leading
goalscorer.
The former Portsmouth and Everton star
boasts of 21 goals from 57 international
games for Nigeria and featured in the
2010 Fifa World Cup – where he notably
missed an open goal from three metres
against South Korea.
Aiyegbeni’s announcement was done on the ex Nigeria international 35th birthday
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