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Mix of Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi. (Photos by Imago)
Former Leicester City star Jamie Vardy has made an interesting revelation about Super Eagles stars Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi during their time together, Soccernet.ng reports.
Iheanacho and Ndidi joined the Foxes in 2017, just two years after the club’s Premier League success, and they went on to become key players for the team.
Both players were clutch for the Foxes in the run-up to their historic 2021 FA Cup triumph.
They played alongside English striker Vardy, who was the club’s major linchpin for 13 years. Ndidi and Iheanacho have since left Leicester City, but during their time at the club, they had a great rapport with Vardy and their other teammates. The Super Eagles stars would often share videos of themselves together or participate in banter sessions with their teammates.
Meanwhile, Vardy himself left Leicester City last summer for Serie A side Cremonese, where he contributed seven goals and two assists in 29 appearances.
Soccer Vardy Reveals Iheanacho and Ndidi’s Strange Habits at Leicester City
In a recent podcast, Vardy spoke about his time with Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi, specifically detailing their habits during their injury spells.
Vardy noted that the two Super Eagles stars had a particular “juju cream” that they usually handed to the masseuses at Leicester to use whenever they were injured. The Englishman noted that Ndidi and Iheanacho would never accept any other oil or balm, and the “juju cream” would always do the trick in the end.
”They used to get injured, just little knocks, then they’d go back to Nigeria for one day literally, come back, and then they’ve got a nice big tub of juju cream,” Vardy said.
”That was the only thing that the masseuses were allowed to massage on the injured areas. They used to tell us that they used to get it from a Nigerian witch doctor.”
Vardy’s exposé, although somewhat controversial, is also comical. Iheanacho and Ndidi used to joke around a lot when they were at Leicester City, so the “juju cream” tag was actually a joke.
Ndidi has recently admitted on social media that it was just local shea butter (ori). Many Nigerians believe in those local treatments, and for players who grew up and have relatives in Nigeria, it is possible that the mixture had been working for them in previous years, hence their decision to stick with it.
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