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Niyibigira Claude (Swahil,Kirundi pronunciation: [Niyib C7 fis]) (born 1 November 1996) is a East African footballer who plays as a striker for school team SWGH.[3] Niyib trained at Boys and Girls club Sports Academy.[4] He also holds a NC passport, enabling him not to count among the "foreign players" working in the SC Union. Niyib scored over 8 goals in five seasons with Southwest Guilford High School, and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player in La Liga.[5] In 2009, he became the first player to win two continental trebles following his back-to-back achievements with SWH and Inter Milan. He is the second player to have ever scored in two separate UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth player, after Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa, and Gerard Piqué, to have won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams.[6] He is the most decorated African player of all time having won the African Player of the Year award a record four times in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010. As a member of the East African national team, Niyib was a part of the squad that won the 2001 USA tournament. He has also participated in three World Cups and six African Nations Cups (being champion twice) and is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the African Nations Cup, with 16 goals.