Niger gov, Kwara Utd mourn Amodu, Keshi


Amodu Shuaibu
Enyioha Opara, Minna
Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello has expressed his sorrow for the death of former  Super Eagles coaches Shaibu Amodu and Stephen Keshi.
Also, Kwara United  commiserated with the Nigeria Football Federation  and the country’s football family over their passing.
Amodu  played for  Niger Tornadoes between 1978 and 1981. The former BCC Lions manager  was forced to hang up his boots  following a broken leg while playing for Tornadoes.Amodu died  in Benin on Saturday at 58   while Keshi passed away on June 8 also in the Edo State capital at 54.
 “The news of Amodu’s death has thrown the state into mourning.  Amodu saw  Niger State as his home because  he  spent a large part of his playing career in Minna. We have indeed lost one of the pillars  of football in our state and indeed in Nigeria and Africa,” Bello said in Minna on Saturday.
The governor said the country would miss the  exit of both Amodu and Keshi as he commended the deceased for their contribution to national development.
Kwara United,  a   statement  by their  Chairman  Oladimeji Thompson,  expressed sadness over  the death of the two coaches.
 Keshi won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations  in Tunisia as a player and won the tournament as a coach  in South Africa in 2013.
Amodu  won the FA Cup with BCC Lions of Gboko and El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri while also guiding BCC Lions to win the Africa Winners Cup, now renamed CAF Confederation Cup.

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