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Twenty years of professional football that started at age 15, 21 National team goals, stints with Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester, Blackburn, Reading   to mention a few, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, the third highest goal scorer for the Super Eagles has called time on his 'footballing' career. Embed from Getty Images An Illustrious by career by many standards, the 'YAK' terrorized defenders across the premier league for years, employing a sheer use brute force, perfect hold up play and positional discipline to gain the upper hand for his side. At 35 however, this writer believes there is one more season left in the YAK, and it should be played in the NPFL. Imagine the YAK playing home games(yes, even only home games) for MFM FC or Enyimba, with his face plastered across match day billboards and his name the key marketing element to sell the games. Without trying, the YAK should bring in an extra 2000 fans every match day, and if he adds goals to his game...

Written by Modo Victor. Endless national team call-ups, constantly overlooked on game days   yet consistently cheering selected players to victory, John Ogu has come full circle. This sums up the life and times of the midfielder in the Super Eagles under the tutelage of Head Coach, Gernot Rohr. Believed by many keen observers to be one of the most gifted   midfielders of this present crop of Super Eagles players, John Ogu possesses a left foot that rubs gloss over every touch, a positional awareness that makes up for his seeming lack of speed, and a mean shot off the boot of his preferred foot; a cultured one I must add. A regular for his Isreali outfit, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, and voted best foreign player in the Isreali league in the just concluded season, the central midfielder's stunning displays on club duty earned him no favours with the national team, falling behind John Mikel Obi, Ogenyi Onazi,   Wilfred Ndidi, and surprisingly Mikel Agu on the peck...