According to the retired footballer’s sister Joy, Emmanuel Ebiede, a former forward for the Super Eagles, has been diagnosed with hepatitis B and is currently being treated in a hospital in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Late Tuesday night, images of the 47-year-old former international who had a bulging stomach went popular on social media.
Joy, Ebiede’s younger sibling, informed ANAEDOONLINE that club members had taken the former Flying Eagles player to the hospital last Friday.
He is in Port Harcourt’s BMH Hospital, although he is now unable to speak well. The retired player has been in the hospital since Friday, and I arrived on Saturday from Bayelsa State to take care of him, Joy stated when our correspondent called to speak with him over the phone.
“His daughter called me that Daddy (Ebiede) was not feeling fine. So, I got here and saw his situation. It was his club members that rushed him to the hospital. Initially, it was malaria and typhoid, but his stomach got swollen.
“He underwent some tests to detect the cause of the swollen stomach. The test results diagnosed Hepatitis B. He’s not stooling freely, so I don’t know if that’s the cause of the swollen stomach.”
Joy, who said Ebiede had not worked lately, added that his medical bills had been taken care of by his benevolent club members.
Joy added, “His club guys are always coming to the hospital to check on him and pay the bills.”
Meanwhile, UK-based David Doherty, who contested the presidency of the Nigeria Football Federation at last year’s election, has opened an account for donors to assist the ailing Ebiede.
As of the time of filing this report, donors had contributed about N150,000, with Doherty also donating another N100,000.
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In a post on Facebook tagged ‘Save Emmanuel Ebiede Now,’ Doherty stated, “Ex-international, Emmanuel Ebiede, is reportedly sick and needs urgent help. One hopes this help comes urgently.
“We wish one of our celebrated attacking midfielders a speedy recovery.”
Ebiede was one of the few bright spots of coach Fanny Amun’s “wobbling and fumbling” Flying Eagles at the African championship on home soil in 1995.
He 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 against Iran on January 28, 1998.
At the 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.
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