Google in an attempt to honour
Nigerian football legend Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has created a doodle on this
day, Tuesday, January 23 to celebrate him. The former Nigerian skipper was born
on January 23, 1962, and would have been 56 today. Doodles are changes made to
the Google logo to celebrate holidays, scientists, lives of famous artists,
anniversaries, pioneer, great footballers. Keshi died on June 7, 2016, at the
age of 54 just seven months after losing his beloved wife Kate to the terminal
disease called cancer. He won the African Cup of Nations for Nigeria as a
player in 1994 and was the only Nigerian to have won the same tournament as a
coach - a feat he achieved in South Africa in 2013. In the same year, he
qualified the Super Eagles for the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil, thereby
becoming the first African coach to qualify two African countries for the World
Cup finals. Before his success with the Super Eagles in AFCON, Keshi was in
charge of Mali and Togo, with whom he enjoyed a measure of success. The Delta
state born defender was the first coach to qualify lowly Togo to the 2006 World
Cup in Germany but was unceremoniously sacked before the World Cup.
By Mercy Kukah
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