Former Super Eagles midfielder, Emmanuel Ebiede, is dead.
Ebiede died on Friday, at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, after a long battle with Hepatomegaly (enlargement of the liver).
Ebiede, 47, was a member of the Flying Eagles squad who won the African Youth Championship on home soil in 1995.
Ebiede had two caps for the Super Eagles, making his debut under Serbian Bora Milutinovic in the 1-0 win over Iran in a pre-1998 World Cup friendly January 28, 1998.
He joined Belgian First Division side, SC Eendracht Aalst, from boyhood club Sharks of Port Harcourt in 1995. In 1997, he moved to SC Heerenveen in the Dutch Eredivisie, before further spells in the United Arab Emirates (1999-2004) and Israel (2006-2008).
He later returned home to feature for Bayelsa United and Sharks, before he retired in 2011.
He is survived by a wife and three children.
