2.
He was born on January 23, 1962.
3.
He hails from Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State.
4.
He played as a defender for Super Eagles of Nigerian and several
football clubs.
5.
Apart from the Nigerian national team, Keshi coached the Togolese and
Malian national teams.
6.
He is the only coach to have taken the Togolese team to the World cup
championship till date.
7.
The first football club he ever played for in Nigeria was ACB Football
Club, before joining New Nigeria Bank, Stade d’Abidjan, Africa Sports, Lokeren,
Anderlecht, RC Strasbourg among other clubs.
8.
From 1981 to 1995 when he stopped playing international football for
Nigeria, Keshi appeared 64 times in the Eagles colour and scored a total of
nine goals.
9.
He served as head coach for the Junior Eagles at the 2001 African Youth
Championship.
10.
He spoke French and English fluently.
11.
Keshi was one of the only two soccer stars, along with Egypt’s Mahmoud
El-Gohary, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations both as a player and a coach.
12.
He won the African Nations Cup in 1994 as a captain and as a coach in
2013.
13.
His wife of 33 years, Kate died on December 9, 2015 after losing a long
battle with cancer.
14.
Keshi is survived by four children and his mother.
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