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Troost-Ekong, who was born in the Netherlands to a Nigerian father and Dutch mother, made his debut for the Super Eagles against Chad on 13 June 2015.

The 31-year-old made his 79th appearance for the three-time African champions against Russia at the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, on Friday night.

The centre-back thanked former Super Eagles head coach, the late Stephen Keshi, for handing him his debut.

He also expressed pride in taking over from Ahmed Musa as captain of the team.


“10 YEARS REPRESENTING NIGERIA:13.06.2015 – 06.06.2025

I will never forget the ‘Big Boss’ Stephen Keshi for believing in me to make my debut in Kaduna that day a decade ago,” the Al-Kholood of Saudi Arabia defender wrote on social media.

“79 caps, 5 major tournaments, 3 medals later. It is my biggest pride to be the captain of this nation & team.

“No dream is ever to big. This is my purpose, and I will continue to strive to be better everyday.
GRATEFUL!”

https://dailypost.ng/2025/06/07/troost-ekong-celebrates-super-eagles-milestone/

The Big moments in pictures
The debut picture and now

Nice one... He's doing well as a defender and captain of the team...

Congratulations champ.


Don't forget, to whom much is given, much more is expected. God be with us 🙏

Weldone

na this kind of guys will eventually secure a place in football istration after they retire from active service to Nigeria. then boys like boniface go dey complain say who naija help

Congrats king kong

That is a landmark achievement. Wishing him more successes

Nice. More grease to your elbow.

Congratulations Skippo!
I love your patriotism & sense of leadership. Nigeria would be better when our leaders show same spirit of leadership & commitment.

Well done, Captain!

Ok

A notable and useful career.

Beautiful.

How Nigeria went from defenders like keshi to this average dude needs to be studied

Congratulations to him

Close to retirement

I just love the guy.ever do commited.na why that mistake against Zimbabwe pain gan

Troost has the same ion has Mikel.

Bless you champ

Loyalty

Congratulations bro

femi4:
Close to retirement

Bad belle! He has many more years to serve Nigeria.

More grease to your elbow skippo!

Won nothing
10years of heartbreaks
Not even an afcon
Has to be the worst era of the super eagles
About to miss bavk to back World Cup appearances

This guy too humble. When others are complaining, he is busy building himself up. God bless you bro

Congratulations Ekong.

Always repping and proud of his country.

He is not one to demarket his nation.

I love him
His dedication is second to none, not loud but focused on his job

Congrats.... Where is d balogun guy that got injured playing for us

BIG congrats to him

LZAA:
How Nigeria went from defenders like keshi to this average dude needs to be studied

Guy, leave that thing,de guy try im best.
Everybody no fit perform the same.
No be only for Naija wey e dey happen,how Italy move from solid rock defenders like Parlo Maldini to those kindergarten defenders wey I see as small Norway dismantle them yesterday?

Troost kor, trust ni

I just love the guy. So committed and focused.

Pacesetter123:

Guy, leave that thing,de guy try im best.
Everybody no fit perform the same.
No be only for Naija wey e dey happen,how Italy move from solid rock defenders like Parlo Maldini to those kindergarten defenders wey I see as small Norway dismantle them yesterday?

Italy moved from Maldini to chiellini,barzagli and bonnuci who then moved to bastoni and scalvini
None and i mean none of those players were/are kindergarten
Back to Ekong
An average player is not a bad player
We used to have average centrebacks even before keshi in the green eagles
They just didn't rack up 100 caps
It's not his fault tho
The NFF just happens to be the worst run football association in major African countries if not player development would have been key
Instead they just wait for FIFA and government money