DO YOU KNOW THE FIRST PLAYER TO CAPTAIN THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM?

Etim Henshaw

Richard Etim Henshaw who played for the defunct Marine FC of Lagos is the first player to captain the Nigeria national team. He led the first ever assembled Nigeria national team (that is now the Super Eagles) for the tour of UK in 1949. The team toured the United Kingdom and impressed in seven friendly matches which they played bare–footed. 

After the tour of UK, the Nigerian team returned to Africa and played its first international match against Serra Leone in Freetown on October 8, 1949 and it was Henshaw that also captained the Nigeria squad to a 2-0 victory. He died in his home in Calabar at the age of 89 on November 18, 2009.