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Sunday Mba’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

By Nathan Sanders
Intro Footballer
Is

Athlete 
Football player 
Association football player 

From

Nigeria 

Type

Sports 

Gender male
Birth 28 November 1988, Aba
Age: 31 years
Star sign Sagittarius

Sunday Mba (born 28 November 1988) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Yeni Malatyaspor 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

He signed for Bastia in December after a drawn-out negotiation that lasted most of the year.

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.

He was called up to Nigeria’s 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. 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.

He was selected for Nigeria’s squad at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.