Human_being1st: the story is false we didnt play india and i our football historty both on fifa.com and wikpedia the hisghest goal we concede ever in a football match was a 7-1 defeat to gold coast

Dextra: So the story is actually true. I thought it was a folklore!

alpha conde: @ can u help me find anything about peter esele, the TUC president. Anything @all

deandavid: ingrate, jst an average player abi, that his club is demanding $15000, jst 2 play 4 his country. He played 4 AS ROMA of old, a club legends like maradonna nd d likes wantd 2 play 4. My friend u no dy respect d dead .

Human_being1st: the story is false we didnt play india and i our football historty both on fifa.com and wikpedia the hisghest goal we concede ever in a football match was a 7-1 defeat to gold coast

Napolitano: Used to hear about how great he was before he died. Who knows he could have been part of our squad in USA 94. May his soul rest in peace and the souls of great good men like him not be cut short by the cold hands of death.

goldfish80: Wow...I never knew he had two degrees. What a legend!
He died before our eyes defending his fatherland.Why the national stadium Surulere wasnt re-named after him or as little as his statue erected @the same stadium he gave up the ghost until Fashola came in,is frankly beyond me.
RIP sir

Kay-Dee:


His bust was there at the National Stadium long before Fashola came in.

9jadelta: okwaraji was just an average player, he becomes legend because he died playing for his country. Nigeria vs india is a false story we keep telling ourselves till we forget the reality

R.I.P great samuel okwaraji

playah P: 

Another dumb fuckktard...


But wait oooh... Sam died at the age of 25?..... I stand to be corrected but that's a big fat lie.. He looks nothing less than 34

stagger: I still remember that horrific day watching it live on TV. Everything that occurred that day was pointing to tragedy. First, 80,000 fans were allowed into the National Stadium in Surulere, far beyond the capacity. Fans were being thrown down from terraces as the game progressed. 12 eventually died that day.

Then on to the game itself. The Angolans employed an extremely physical approach, hacking at our players with no mercy. Tackle after tackle after tackle. Then Austin Eguavoen missed a penalty. If not for the single goal scored by Stephen Keshi and the penalty save in the second half from goalkeeper David Ngodigha after Sunday Egboigbe's double error, in giving the ball away, we would have gone home empty-handed.

Then Sam fell. The crowd gasped. Samson Siasia walked over to him and according to him, Sam's last words were "call me a doctor". Siasia lifted up his hands and beckoned frantically to the bench that there was trouble. Okwaraji was taken to an ambulance which could not start because the battery was down. And he died right there in the ambulance.

It was terrible. Just so terrible. But have we learnt?

Other footballers who have died this way are:

- Tunde Charity Ikhidero (part of the Miracle of Damman U-21 team).
- Amir Angwe (part of the BCC Lions who won the 1990 African Cup Winners Cup).

There are others I cannot remember now. Have they been immortalised? Have they been given National Awards? What has happened to their families? When last did a government official ever care to call or visit their people to know how they have fared all these years that their breadwinners have died?

Has the govt fulfilled any of the promised made to Sam Okwaraji's family?

Yet we have thieves and Boko Haram sponsors being given national awards. God help them I do not become president bcause heads will roll.

blanco56: @OP get your facts right jooor! The then NFA chairman Group Captain John Obakpolor is still alive, hail and hearty yet you referred to him several times in your writeup as late...Na u kill am? Abi U get plans?

blanco56: @OP get your facts right jooor! The then NFA chairman Group Captain John Obakpolor is still alive, hail and hearty yet you referred to him several times in your writeup as late...Na u kill am? Abi U get plans?

Dextra: So the story is actually true. I thought it was a folklore!

stagger: I still remember that horrific day watching it live on TV. Everything that occurred that day was pointing to tragedy. First, 80,000 fans were allowed into the National Stadium in Surulere, far beyond the capacity. Fans were being thrown down from terraces as the game progressed. 12 eventually died that day.

Then on to the game itself. The Angolans employed an extremely physical approach, hacking at our players with no mercy. Tackle after tackle after tackle. Then Austin Eguavoen missed a penalty. If not for the single goal scored by Stephen Keshi and the penalty save in the second half from goalkeeper David Ngodigha after Sunday Egboigbe's double error, in giving the ball away, we would have gone home empty-handed.

Then Sam fell. The crowd gasped. Samson Siasia walked over to him and according to him, Sam's last words were "call me a doctor". Siasia lifted up his hands and beckoned frantically to the bench that there was trouble. Okwaraji was taken to an ambulance which could not start because the battery was down. And he died right there in the ambulance.

It was terrible. Just so terrible. But have we learnt?

Other footballers who have died this way are:

- Tunde Charity Ikhidero (part of the Miracle of Damman U-21 team).
- Amir Angwe (part of the BCC Lions who won the 1990 African Cup Winners Cup).

There are others I cannot remember now. Have they been immortalised? Have they been given National Awards? What has happened to their families? When last did a government official ever care to call or visit their people to know how they have fared all these years that their breadwinners have died?

Has the govt fulfilled any of the promised made to Sam Okwaraji's family?

Yet we have thieves and Boko Haram sponsors being given national awards. God help them I do not become president bcause heads will roll.