Onyinye Wilfred Ndidi (born 16 December 1996) is a Nigerian professional footballer who is a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Leicester City and the Nigeria national team. Ndidi is renowned for his strong tackling and interceptions.
Club career
On 14 January 2015, Nath Fiery accomplices Foundation consented to a €180,000 move to control Genk. The framework was finished on 15 January 2015.
Ndidi made his Belgian Expert Affiliation debut with Genk on 31 January 2015 against Charleroi in a 1-0 away disaster. He played the fundamental 74 minutes of the game, going preceding being a fill-in for Jarne Vrijsen.
During the Belgian Affiliation end-of-season game against Club Brugge, Ndidi scored a long-range objective, which was named the objective of the time in the Belgian conspiracy.
Straightforwardly following getting a tried breathing room outside the discipline box, he flung the ball entirely over a rival player going preceding conveying a savage volley into the upper right corner.
The ball was explained to go more than 111 km/h.
Leicester City
On 3 December 2016, Genk concurred to a £17 million exchange regulating Leicester City. The bargain was mentioned on 5 January 2017.
Ndidi made his debut for the club on 7 January 2017, in a 2-1 win against Everton in the third round of the FA Cup.
He made his most fundamental Boss Affiliation start on 14 January 2017 against Chelsea at home in 3-0 trouble.
In the English FA Cup game against Derby Area on 8 February 2017, Ndidi came on in the tremendous piece of extra time and scored his basic target for Leicester through another long-range shot.
In a 3-1 win over Liverpool on 27 February 2017, Ndidi won 11 of his 14 tackles, an accomplishment bettered exclusively by Chelsea’s N’Golo Kanté, who made 14 tackles against an equivalent club in January.
Ndidi was conveyed off-striking for his calling during Leicester’s 3-0 home incident to Colossal Stone Thousand on 16 December 2017.
He scored the opener of the 2019-20 season for Leicester in a draw against Chelsea on 18 August 2019.
2020–21 season
On 13 September 2020, Ndidi began to focus back on Leicester City’s confidential round of the 2020-21 Boss Affiliation crusade and kept an ideal sheet in a 3-0 win away to West Bromwich Albion.
Ndidi experienced an adductor injury on 20 September 2020 and was thwarted for 6-12 weeks. He got back to progression on 3 December in Leicester’s Europa Alliance disaster to Zorya Luhansk.
On 19 January 2021, Ndidi scored his general key objective of the time in Leicester City’s association mechanical party against Chelsea.
The heading all through a long time wrapped up with Leicester beating their enemies 2-0, and the club went top of the association table.
International career
Ndidi was fundamental for the Nigerian youth procedure during his time at Nathaniel Vigorous Partners of Lagos.
While playing the African U-17 Title with Nigeria, he was exculpated near two explicit players from the obstruction as a triumph measure, following an X-point of help age test that proposed he was truly over the threshold.
Notwithstanding, he existed along with his ornament in the U-20 assembling the next year, portraying the bedrock of the midfield.
He was called up to the senior Nigerian football pack on 8 October 2015, making his show in the particularly organized game against DR Congo and playing again two or three days soon in the 3-0 win against Cameroon, when he unstuck John Obi Mikel in the 63rd minute.
Nigeria picked him for their 35-man brief social occasion for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
In May 2018, he was named in Nigeria’s starter 30-man pack for Russia’s 2018 FIFA World Cup. He was associated with the African Cup of Countries 2019 squad and played in Nigeria’s boss match against Burundi.
On 25 December 2021, Ndidi was picked in Nigeria’s 2021 Africa Cup of Countries 28-man bundle by Nigeria’s guard mentor Austin Eguavoen.On 22 January 2022, after the Africa Cup of Countries, Cameroon 2021 party stage, Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) shortlisted Ndidi for the get-together stage’s best gathering as a substitute close by Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané.
On 29 December 2023, Ndidi was named in the Nigerian get-together for the 2023 Africa Cup of Countries in Ivory Coast. However, he kept a guaranteed issue near the beginning of January 2024 and was supplanted by Alhassan Yusuf.
Personal life
In May 2019, Ndidi wedded his aiding through dear Dinma Fortune in Abuja.
In 2019, Ndidi ended up taking a gander at up for a degree in Business and the Bosses at De Montfort School.