Rashidi Yekini
Complete Name: Rashidi Yekini
Nationality: Nigerian
Place of Birth: Kaduna, Nigeria
Date of Birth: 23/10/1964
Height: 190 cm
Weight: 80 kg
National Team: Nigeria
Current Club: Retired
Position: Forward

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Club career history
United Nigerian Textiles Limited (Nigeria), Shooting Stars (Nigeria), Abiola Babes (Nigeria), Africa Sports (Nigeria), Vitoria FC (Portugal), Olympiacos (Greece), Sporting Gijón (Spain), Vitoria Setubal (Portugal), FC Zürich (Switzerland), Bizerte (), Al-Shabab (), Africa Sports (Nigeria), Julius Berger FC (Nigeria), Gateway FC ()

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Biography
Rashidi Yekini (born October 23, 1964 in Kaduna) is a former football striker from Nigeria. Scoring 37 goals for Nigeria, he is the national record top goalscorer. Yekini was part of the team that participated in the 1994 World Cup and 1998 World Cup and won the 1994 African Nations Cup, a tournament in which he became top goalscorer. Yekini also played Olympic football, in Seoul 1988.

After playing well in the Nigerian league, he went to Côte d'Ivoire to play for Africa Sports. From here he went on to Portugal and Vitoria Setubal, where he eventually became top scorer in the Portuguese league. His performances earned him the title African Footballer of the Year in 1993. After the1994 World Cup Yekini was bought by Olympiacos, but didn't get along with the players and left. His club career never really got back on track, even not upon a return to Setúbal. He did have one quite successful season with FC Zürich, and played in Tunisia and Saudi Arabia before rejoining Africa Sports. In 2003, Yekini, 39 years old, was back in the Nigerian Premier League with Julius Berger.


He is a hero indeed but he is forgotten

Don't really know what you mean by "forgotten".

Do you mean he should be invited to play again
or made a coach?

Akin Alabi

Ao i wish yu were in his shoes then yu would have probably known wot τ̣̣ђё 'forgotten' means because i can't imagine an hero,a man D̶̲̥̅̊α̲̅†̥ has lifted Nigeria in football during his lifetym n ofwhich no oda Nigerian player has ever reached his victory,now been on d street of Ibadan walking with barefoot up and down....its so sad D̶̲̥̅̊α̲̅†̥ our so government can't do anytin abt it.@akinalabi τ̣̣ђё 'forgotten' means sumfins...may his gentie soul rest in perfect peace of his creator.