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Vincent Enyeama wowed the global
football audience, as well as millions of Nigerian football fans, with
his all-yellow football apparel along with his numerous saves
throughout Nigeria’s unsuccessful run at the World Cup.

To the average football fan, the Israel
based goalkeeper was Nigeria’s best player at the World Cup so it may
come as a shock to them that someone else other than Enyeama was
actually the country’s best performer in South Africa, according to the
Castrol Performance Index, CPI, which FIFA is using to rate players in
this tournament.

While Enyeama earned a credible 7.11
rating on the CPI, Lukman Haruna, the previously unheralded midfielder
grabbed 7.81 points to rank as the country’s top performer.

In third place is one player a
cross-section of Nigerian football fans have blamed for the Super
Eagles’ loss to Greece, Sani Kaita who finished with a modest 6.26
rating followed by Taye Taiwo and the combative Dickson Etuhu, who
covered more distance than any other Nigerian player at the World Cup –
slightly over 29 kilometres.

Other players like Chidi Odiah, Chinedu
Obasi and Danny Shittu also earned ratings from the CPI but there was
no data available for the legendary Nwankwo Kanu, despite playing 57
minutes in the 2-2 draw against Korea Republic, as well as Yusuf Ayila
and the five unused players – John Utaka, Dele Adeleye, Brown Ideye,
Austin Ejide and Dele Aiyenugba.

What is the Castrol Index?

The Castrol
Performance Index is a ranking system sponsored by Castrol. The system
uses mathematical formulas which evaluate various player performance in
terms of how individual actions either assist or prevent goals.

The system takes into account the strength of the opposition and the time in a game the player’s actions occurred.

Developed in
conjunction with Arsenal manager and Castrol global ambassador Arsène
Wenger, every pass, tackle and move on the field is measured and
assessed to see if it has a positive or negative impact on a team’s
ability to score or concede a goal. As such, the Castrol Index is the
definitive system to objectively analyse and rank player performances
throughout the 2010 World Cup.

Lukman Haruna

Matches played: 2

Minutes played: 180

Goals scored: 0

Fouls committed: 4

Fouls suffered: 4

Total shots: 3

Shots on goal: 0

Total passes: 89

Passes completed: 66

Distance covered: 20.02 km

Castrol index: 7.81

Vincent Enyeama Matches played: 3

Minutes played: 270

Goals scored: 0

Fouls committed:1

Fouls suffered:1

Saves:20

Total passes:93

Passes completed: 53

Distance covered: 8.54 km

Castrol index: 7.11

Sani Kaita

Matches played: 2

Minutes played:123

Goals scored:0

Fouls committed:1

Fouls suffered:0

Total shots:2

Shots on goal: 0

Total passes:55

Passes completed: 38

Distance covered: 13.80 km

Castrol index:6.26

Taye Taiwo

Matches played:2

Minutes played:130

Goals scored:0

Fouls committed:1

Fouls suffered:1

Total shots:4

Shots on goal:1

Total passes:60

Passes completed: 35

Distance covered:

10.91km

Castrol index:

6.18

Dickson Etuhu

Matches played:

3 Minutes played:

270 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

5 Fouls suffered:

1 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

123 Passes completed: 96 Distance covered:

29.07 km Castrol index:

6.15

Yakubu Aiyegbeni

Matches played:

3 Minutes played:

250 Goals scored:

1 Fouls committed:

9 Fouls suffered:

5 Total shots:

5 Shots on goal:

2 Total passes:

78 Passes completed: 40 Distance covered:

24.24 km Castrol index:

6.11

Chidi Odiah

Matches played:

3 Minutes played:

270 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

1 Fouls suffered:

1 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

150 Passes completed: 101 Distance covered:

26.00 km Castrol index:

5.40

Chinedu Obasi

Matches played:3

Minutes played:

194 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

6 Fouls suffered:

5 Total shots:

6 Shots on goal:

1 Total passes:

83 Passes completed: 59 Distance covered:

21.60 km Castrol index:

5.36

Danny Shittu

Matches played:3

Minutes played:

270 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

6 Fouls suffered:

0 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

74 Passes completed: 63 Distance covered:

24.19 km Castrol index:

5.30

Kalu Uche

Matches played:

3 Minutes played:

195 Goals scored:

2 Fouls committed:

1 Fouls suffered:

5 Total shots:

7 Shots on goal:

4 Total passes:

81 Passes completed: 61 Distance covered:

20.92 km Castrol index:

5.28

Obinna Nsofor

Matches played:

2 Minutes played:

72 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

0 Fouls suffered:

0 Total shots:

3 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

89 Passes completed: 66 Distance covered:

20.02 km Castrol index:

5.06

Obafemi Martins

Matches played:

2 Minutes played:

71 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

0 Fouls suffered:

2 Total shots:

2 Shots on goal:

1 Total passes:

21 Passes completed: 10 Distance covered: 8.07 km Castrol index:

4.89

Osaze Odemwingie

Matches played:

2 Minutes played:

76 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

2 Fouls suffered:

2 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

34 Passes completed: 20 Distance covered: 8.84 km Castrol index:

4.85

Joseph Yobo

Matches played:

3 Minutes played:

226

Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

1 Fouls suffered:

0 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

65 Passes completed: 39 Distance covered:

19.42 km Castrol index:

4.73

Rabiu Afolabi

Matches played:

2

Minutes played:

103

Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

0 Fouls suffered:

1 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

55 Passes completed: 39 Distance covered:

11.01 km Castrol index:

4.67

Uwa Echiejile

Matches played:

2 Minutes played:

66 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

1 Fouls suffered:

0 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

26 Passes completed: 14 Distance covered: 7.03 km Castrol index:

4.67

Yusuf Ayila

Matches played:

1 Minutes played:

90 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

5 Fouls suffered:

0 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

49 Passes completed: 36 Distance covered:

10.58 km Castrol index:

No data available

Nwankwo Kanu

Matches played:

1 Minutes played:

57 Goals scored:

0 Fouls committed:

1 Fouls suffered:

4 Total shots:

0 Shots on goal:

0 Total passes:

17 Passes completed: 13 Distance covered: 5.92 km Castrol index:

No data available

Dele Aiyenugba

Castrol index: No data available

Dele Adeleye

Castrol index:No data available

Austin Ejide

Castrol index: No data available

Brown Ideye

Castrol index: No data available

John Utaka Castrol index:

No data available

Matches Win: 0 Draw: 1 Loss: 2 Goals scored For:

3 Against:

5 Penalties:

1 Goals scored in
penalty area: 2 Goals conceded in penalty area: 3 Goals scored from
outside penalty area: 1 Goals conceded from outside penalty area: 2
Cards Yellow: 5 Red: 1 Top scorers Kalu Uche: 2 Yakubu Aiyegbeni: 1
Total shots Kalu Uche: 7 Chinedu Obasi: 6 Yakubu Aiyegbeni: 5 Taye
Taiwo: 4 Obafemi Martins:

2 Other statistics Assists:

1 Offsides:

1 Average ball possession rate: 44% Solo runs: 40 Deliveries in penalty area: 11 Clearances: 45 Clearances completed: 9 Saves:

21 Tackles:

21 Recovered balls: 17 Passes (Completion rate %) Total passes: 1180
Passes completed: 799 Passes completion rate: 67.71% Long passes: 247
Long passes completed: 104 Long passes completion rate: 42.11% Medium
passes: 663 Medium passes competed: 504 Medium passes completion rate:
76.02% Short passes: 270 Short passes completed: 191 Short passes
completion rate: 70.74% Crosses: 41 Crosses completed: 6 Crosses
completion rate: 14.63% Corners: 8 Corners completed: 6 Crosses
completion rate: 14.63% Top performers Chidi Odiah: 150 (67%) Dickson
Etuhu: 123 (78%) Vincent Enyeama: 93 (57%) Lukman Haruna: 89 (74%)
Chinedu Obasi: 83 (71%) Fouls Fouls committed: 45 Fouls suffered: 32
Top culprits Yakubu Aiyegbeni: 9 Chinedu Obasi: 6 Danny Shittu: 6
Dickson Etuhu: 5 Yusuf Ayila: 5