Sunday Mba

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Sunday Mba
Personal information
Full nameSunday Mba
Date of birth (1988-11-28) 28 November 1988
Place of birthNigeria
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Playing positionCentral Midfielder
Club information
Current clubCA Bastia
Youth career
2004Pepsi Football Academy
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2006Enyimba
2007Enugu Rangers
2007–2008Enyimba
2008–2009Enugu Rangers
2009–2010Dolphins
2010–2013Warri Wolves
2013Enugu Rangers (loan)
2013-CA Bastia
National team
2012–Nigeria17(5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 May 2013.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19:26, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Sunday Mba (born 28 November 1988[1]) is a Nigerian football player who currently plays as a central midfielder for CA Bastia and the Nigeria national team.

Club career

Mba joined Rangers on loan in May 2013 from Warri Wolves. He scored in his Rangers' debut, a 3–1 loss to Clube Recreativo Desportivo do Libolo in the 2013 CAF Champions League[2] He signed for Bastia in December after a drawn-out negotiation that lasted most of the year.[3]

International career

He was a member of the Nigeria B team that won the 2010 WAFU Nations Cup. He made his senior debut in the Eagles' 0–0 tie against Angola in January 2012. He scored a brace against Liberia in his next game.[4]

He was called up to Nigeria's 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.[5] Mba scored the winning goal in Nigeria's 2–1 quarter-final win over Côte d'Ivoire. On February 10, 2013, in the final against Burkina Faso, he scored the first and only goal of the game, to hand Nigeria their third Africa Cup of Nations title.[6]

He was selected for Nigeria's squad at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.[7]

Honours

Nigeria

References

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