Steve keshi Nigeria ex coach is dead

One of the most iconic captains of the
Nigerian national football team, the
Super Eagles, and former coach of the
team, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, is
dead, his family has announced.
He was 54.
Emmanuel Ado a brother to the late
coach told PREMIUM TIMES the 54-year-
old died of Cardiac arrest in the early
hours of Wednesday, June 8.
“With thanksgiving to God, the
Ogbuenyi Fredrick Keshi family of Illah
in Oshimili North Local Government
Area of Delta State, announces the
death of Mr. Stephen Okechukwu
Chinedu Keshi,” Mr. Ado said in a
statement.
He continued “Our son, brother,
father, father-in-law, brother-in-law,
has gone to be with his wife of 35
years (Nkem ), Mrs. Kate Keshi, who
passed on on the 9th December 2015.
“Since her death, Keshi has been in
mourning. He came back to Nigeria to
be with her. He had planned to fly
back today Wednesday, before he
suffered a cardiac arrest. He has found
rest.”
Though deeply mourning the shock
exit, Mr. Ado said the family remained
grateful to God for the life spent by the
Big Boss.
Mr. Keshi had lost his wife of 35 years,
Kate, to cancer last December.
Mr Keshi, popularly called the Big Boss, is the only
Nigerian coach to have won the Africa Cup of
Nations.
He also became the second person in history to win
the competition as a player and as a coach after
Mahmoud El-Gohary of Egypt when he led the Super
Eagles to win the tournament in 2013 in
Johannesburg, South Africa.
He rose to national prominence when debuted for
the Super Eagles in 1981 at age 20. The late Central
Defender withdrew from the national team in 1994.
He had 64 caps and scored nine goals.
As coach, he qualified an unlikely Togolese national
team for the 2006 World Cup in Germany but was
sacked and replaced with German Otto Pfister, just
before the tournament.
He however, achieved his dream to manage a team
at the World Cup when he coached the Super Eagles
side to the tournament in 2014.
He is the fifth member of the glorious 1994 Super
Eagles team to die, after Uche Okafor, Thompson
Oliha, Rashidi Yekini and Wilfred Agbonavbare.
He is survived by four children and his mother.
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