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Bet Me You Didn’t Know All This About Stephen Keshi by apogeez(m): 6:11am On Jun 29, 2016
1. His full name was Stephen Okechukwu
Chinedu Keshi.

2. He was born on January 23, 1962.

3. He hails from Oshimili North Local
Government Area of Delta State.

4. He played as a defender for Super
Eagles of Nigerian and several football
clubs.

5. Apart from the Nigerian national
team, Keshi coached the Togolese and
Malian national teams.

6. He is the only coach to have taken the
Togolese team to the World cup
championship till date.

7. The first football club he ever played
for in Nigeria was ACB Football Club,
before joining New Nigeria Bank,
Stade d’Abidjan, Africa Sports,
Lokeren, Anderlecht, RC Strasbourg
among other clubs.

8. From 1981 to 1995 when he stopped
playing international football for
Nigeria, Keshi appeared 64 times in
the Eagles colour and scored a total of
nine goals.

9. He served as head coach for the Junior
Eagles at the 2001 African Youth
Championship.

10. He spoke French and English fluently.

11. Keshi was one of the only two soccer
stars, along with Egypt’s Mahmoud El-
Gohary, to have won the Africa Cup of
Nations both as a player and a coach.

12. He won the African Nations Cup in
1994 as a captain and as a coach in
2013.

13. His wife of 33 years, Kate died on
December 9, 2015 after losing a long
battle with cancer.

14. Keshi is survived by four children and
his mother.
Re: Bet Me You Didn’t Know All This About Stephen Keshi by cosby02(m): 6:45am On Jun 29, 2016
Is that all

Re: Bet Me You Didn’t Know All This About Stephen Keshi by fiftynaira(m): 7:08am On Jun 29, 2016
We know all these things
Re: Bet Me You Didn’t Know All This About Stephen Keshi by Hustlerlomo(m): 7:09am On Jun 29, 2016
Op before you were born, I knew all this.. anyway the younger ones like u will thank you for this.

Una gud morning.
Re: Bet Me You Didn’t Know All This About Stephen Keshi by nonjebose(m): 7:26am On Jun 29, 2016
I will not waste my time telling you things not listed here.

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