Nigerian football icon Stephen Okechukwu
Keshi died suddenly in the early hours of
Wednesday in Benin City, Edo state,
Naijaloaded was briefed.
The former international football player
and coach had lost his wife of 33 years,
Kate, last year after a prolonged battle
with cancer.
NL confirmed his death from a member of
his family as well as one of his close
associates.
“He was not ill at all, never showed any
signs of illness, but we suspect he never
got over the death of his wife,” a friend
said.
He is survived by four children and his
mother.
Keshi, the only Nigerian coach to have won
the Africa Cup of Nations, achieved a rare
feat in 2013 by becoming only the second
person to win the trophy both as a player
and a coach.
The only other person to have achieved the
feat is Egypt’s Mahmoud El-Gohary.
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