HOW STEVEN OKECHUKWU KESHI DIED

written by Our Reporter June 25, 2016

BIG BOSS

Former Super Eagles Chief Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, is dead. Keshi, former Captain and Coach of the Super Eagles until recently died at the age of 54.

The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) confirmed his death on his twitter handle, @thenff.

“Former Nigeria Captain and Coach, Stephen Keshi, is dead. Reports say the legend died in the early hours of Wednesday, RIP Big Boss”.

Assistant Secretary, Communications of the NFF, Ademola Olajire, said Keshi died after he was rushed to the hospital in Benin after he complained of pains in his legs which made it difficult for him to stand.

Keshi was also said to have complained of irregular heart beats.

Keshi was the only member of the Super Eagles team that led the team as a captain and later coach.

He led the Super Eagles to win the African Cup of nations in Tunisia in 1994 and later as a coach in 2014.

He also led the team as a player to the 1994 World Cup in the United States.

Former Super Eagles’ Coach, Stephen Keshi, died before he arrived Faith Mediplex, the hospital he was rushed to on Tuesday night, his brother in-law, Richard Aburime, has said.

The former captain and coach of the senior national died at the age of 54 on Tuesday.

Narrating Mr. Keshi’s last days on earth to journalists in Benin, the Edo State capital on Wednesday, Mr. Aburime said the late coach had a history of leg pains following years of successful professional football, which was usually managed with massaging.

He said following his last complains and subsequent massaging, Mr. Keshi’s body system and health suddenly degenerated as a result of which he was at about 11.30pm rushed to the hospital, which is about 20 minutes’ drive from his residence at Giwa Amu area of Government Reserved Area in Benin City.

“He had complained of pains in his leg for some days and they kept massaging it for him. When he complained of it yesterday, they massaged it for him again,” Mr. Aburime recounted.

“About one and half hours after the massaging, he was in serious distress and was gasping for breath. That was how we rushed him to the hospital, a distance of about 20 minutes.”

“But by the time he arrived at the hospital, the doctor certified him dead on arrival. That was between 11:30 and 11:45 pm.”

“It was the nurse that first came out. She checked for pulse‎ and said there was no more pulse in him. Doctors later came and do all the stuffs they do; but nothing came out of it.”

                                                         REST IN PEACE THE BOSS