The Former Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, is dead. A tweet on the Nigeria Football Federation’s handle, @thenff, disclosed this news on the early hours of wednesday.
It could be recalled that the former international football player and coach, lost his wife, Kate, barely a year ago after a prolonged battle with cancer.
The football legend has coached the national teams of Togo and Mali, qualifying the former to the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
In his last job with Nigeria, he won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and reached the Round of 16 at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
In his tweet, the Nigerian Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick sent his condolence via twitter early this morning this was his statement: "Kesi was a super hero. His death is a big loss to Nigeria as a nation, not only to Nigeriafoothball"see his tweet below.
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