BREAKING: Former Super Eagles Coach Adegboye Onigbinde is dead

A erstwhile Super Eagles coach, Adegboye Onigbinde, has died astatine the property of 88.

His household confirmed his passing connected Monday done a WhatsApp broadcast connection signed by Bolade Adesuyi, a subordinate of the family.

The broadcast connection read, “With large gratitude to God for a beingness good spent, we denote the passing of this large man, a Modakeke High Chief, the archetypal indigenous Nigerian Super Eagles shot coach, father, husband, grandfather, great-grandfather, member and friend, High Chief Festus Adegboye Onigbinde, who passed unto the large beyond a mates of minutes ago.”

Born connected March 5, 1938, Onigbinde was wide regarded arsenic 1 of the pioneers of modern shot coaching successful Nigeria.

He made past arsenic the archetypal indigenous Nigerian manager of the Nigeria nationalist shot team.

During his coaching career, helium led Nigeria to the last of the 1984 Africa Cup of Nations, wherever the squad finished with a metallic medal aft losing to the Cameroon nationalist shot team.

Onigbinde aboriginal returned to negociate the Super Eagles pursuing the sack of the coaching unit led by Shuaibu Amodu aft what was wide considered a disappointing show by Nigeria astatine the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations.

He subsequently guided the Super Eagles to the 2002 FIFA World Cup co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, assembling a squad mostly made up of young and comparatively inexperienced players.

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