Former Super Eagles midfielder Ebiede has died at 47.
Glamtush reports that former Super Eagles midfielder, Emmanuel Ebiede, is dead.
This online newspaper understands that Ebiede, died on Friday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, after suffering Hepatomegaly (enlargement of the liver).
The 47-year-old gave up the ghost at 4 pm at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital.
He is survived by a wife and three kids – two in Nigeria and one in Holland.
Ebiede was part of the Flying Eagles squad at 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.
At club level, Ebiede 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 then returned home to feature for Bayelsa United and Sharks. He retired in 2011.
