Ex-Super Eagles Defender Down With Stroke
Pioneer coach and co-founder of defunct Sharks
Football Club of Portharcourt ex-International, Ebiyon
Dediare is lying critically ill, BSNSports.com.ng can
report.
His ailment, according to his family, is attributed to
complications arising from stroke he suffered on
the 15th of September 2020.
His wife, Mrs. Titilayo Ebiyon Dediare, said coach
Ebiyon is currently admitted at the Prestige Hospital
Portharcourt.
It would be recalled that Ebiyon Dediare and late
Chief Wilson Eselsmo of blessed memory,
proprietor of Eselemo Diamonds Football Club of
Warri sold the idea to the then Rivers state
Governor, His Excellency Alfred Diete Spiff to
transmute Eselemo Diamonds Football Club to
Sharks football of Portharcourt.
Ex-Internationals like Jossy Dombraye, Mike Okotie,
late Morton Owolo, Raymond kwakopone and
others were pioneer players of Sharks of
Portharcourt. Ebiyon Dediare was also coach of
Eagle cement for a long time and took the club to
greater heights. It is in the light of the above the
National Association of Nigeria Footballers (NANF)
is calling on the Dynamic, Good hearted and
compassionate Governor of Rivers State to once
again demonstrate why he is always the man of the
People and not let former center half of the Green
Eagles in the late 1960s die.