Kanu Named As Substitute In Thierry Henry's Ultimate XI Side Of Most Frequent Teammates

Henry became one of the world's most deadly strikers at Arsenal and was shockingly never awarded the Best Player gong when he lit up the Gunners' previous home ground, Highbury.

Two-time African Footballer of the Year in 1996 and 1999 Kanu who joined Arsenal from Inter Milan in January 1999 and went on to win two Premier League titles in London including being part of the Invincibles side of the 2004/2005 side shared 142 Arsenal appearances with Henry in north London.

In an interesting line up of players that shared the pitch with him at club and national team levels as published by English media, The Mirror, Henry selected ten of his Arsenal teammates barring former France goalkeeper Fabian Barthez whom he had 169 appearances with.

In an all Arsenal defence, Henry went for former Cameroon international Lauren Etame Meyer who had 208 club appearances with him as well as Kolo Toure,(186) Sol Campbell (174) and Ashley Cole (194).


Henry's attack consist of Dennis Bergkamp (216) and Sylvain Wiltord (189).

Subs: Lehmann (145), Keown (137), Grimandi (132), Dumas (118), Thuram (130), Gilberto Silva (159), Kanu (142).

All minutes played and appearances stats were courtesy of transfermarkt.co.uk.

Izuchukwu Okosi