Former Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy has claimed that Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi made use of “juju cream” to overcome their injuries during their time at the Foxes.
Vardy made the claim in the latest episode of ‘Jamie Vardy’s Having a Party’ podcast.
The 39-year-old was a teammate of both Iheanacho and Ndidi at Leicester City from 2017 to 2024, and the club won the Community Shield and the FA Cup within that period.
Recounting some behind-the-scenes information from that time at the King Power Stadium, Vardy narrated how the Super Eagles pair used to go back home in Nigeria after injuries and return to the club with “a nice big tub of juju cream”, which was the only ointment the masseuse was allowed to apply to the affected area.
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Vardy added that when the players are queried about the source of the substance, they would claim it was from “a Nigerian witch doctor”.
“They used to get injured. Little knocks, then go back to Nigeria for just one day. They come back with a nice big tub of juju cream,” Vardy said.
“That was the only thing that the messeuse was allowed to apply to the injured area. They used to tell us that it had come from a Nigerian witch doctor.”
Ndidi currently plays for Turkish giants Besiktas while Iheanacho is at Scottish heavyweights Celtic where he won the league and Cup titles.
By James Agberebi
6 Comments
Lol….
What sort of allegation or accusation is this….
It’s not suppose to be funny honestly but the “a nice big tub of juju cream”….is really cracking me up….
Did senior man and ndidi really said all these things….
This doesn’t look good on their image and nigerian players image….
Hope vardy is not trying to go trend with his podcast show??
If this is true then these guys must be investigated and out of the national team. This is no jokes light and darkness can not dwell in one place.
Are you okay? So it’s wrong to use our native treatment or what? This white folks assumed anything aside what they threw @ us as medicine to be juju and you all seems to be supporting that notion or what?
Illiteracy is when you can’t differentiate Juju from Native or Traditional content. I will rather ask if you okay? Because the headline does not tell you it’s shes butter or herbal treatment. Be wise in your own sense because I am not here to argue with you. I don’t know you from Adam so dey your dey Omoboy.
Oga go and sit down with your slave/colonial mentality…
Even if the headline say juju nko???
Did you read anywhere in the writeup where they use the juju in a negative light, maybe to cast a negative spell on somebody??
Did iheanacho use it on vardy to stop him from scoring so he can be the main man??
They used it on themselves in a positive light for quick and good recovery as vardy clearly stated…
It is you who is rather an illiterate because you lacked a deep comprehension from what you just read….
You just jump up started shouting light and darkness kini ko kini ko….
So your defination of juju is anything and everything evil…..
Oga you better free yourself from this mental colonial slavery o….
Before all these white, colonial rubbish came we as africans had our way of curing diseases, ailment, sickeness etc…
So if you allow vardy to make you to begin to see it as juju(evil. Cos that is what the whites see it as) abi na light and darkness then we might just be experiencing another colonialization through you in 2026…
Nah real wah, that means Penicilin is juju. You called a solution juju.