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Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by DONSMITH123(m): 12:04pm On Jan 03
Sebastine Brodericks-Imasuen, who led the Golden Eaglets to win the inaugural U-17 World Cup in 1985 is dead.

PUNCH reports that the late Nigerian coach was on life support at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital for over a year.

Brodericks-Imasuen, 85, had been diagnosed with Ischemic stroke in December 2022 and had been receiving treatment before he took his last breath, our correspondent gathered.

Ischemic stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks or narrows an artery leading to the brain.

The blood clot often forms in arteries damaged by the buildup of plaques (atherosclerosis).

One of the players Brodericks-Imasuen trained at the 1989 U17 World Cup in Scotland, Bamidele Oguntuashe, first broke the news before another confirmation came from Harrison Jalla, the Chairman, of the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria Task Force through a WhatsApp post.

Jalla quoted family sources for the death of the iconic coach who had been bed-ridden for some months now.

He reportedly suffered from a stroke and diabetes.

The late coach was one of the football players who represented Nigeria at the Mexico Olympic Games in 1968 and famously scored from a free kick to win the then Challenge Cup for Bendel Insurance in 1972.

As a coach, he was the head of a three-man crew that included Bala Shamaki and Christian Chukwu when the Nigerian team shocked the world in China in 1985.

He led the team again in 1987 to Canada and got to the final before losing through a penalty shoot-out to the then-Soviet Union.

At the third attempt in the competition, his team lost to Saudi Arabia by a penalty kick in the quarter-finals.

At another time, he was the assistant to Clemens Westerhof in the Super Eagles.

He began his football career in 1956 when as a student, he featured for the Onitsha team in the Challenge Cup.

In 1962, he joined the then ECN and was part of the Challenge Cup winning side of 1965.

He was invited to the national team in 1962 but only became a regular in the build-up to the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.

He was noted for his curving shots, especially from free-kick situations.

Popularly called ‘Sabara’, his biggest moment as a club player was when he scored the winning goal in the 3-2 victory for Bendel Insurance in the replay of the 1972 Challenge Cup with Mighty Jets of Jos at the Liberty Stadium – the first time the national cup final was held outside Lagos.

He later became a coach and handled the Midwest junior side to win a gold medal at the inaugural National Sports Festival in 1973.

https://punchng.com/breaking-1985-u-17-word-cup-winning-coach-sebastian-broderick-is-dead/

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by hisexcellency34: 12:06pm On Jan 03
The labours of our heroes past. The man was sick for long and begging for help.

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by accordadoga28(f): 12:06pm On Jan 03
Hmmmm

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die.

Ma j’okun, ki o ma j’ekolo, Ohun ti wọn ba n jẹ l’ọrun ni ki o ba wọn jẹ.

Sun re oo baba Sebastian, o tun d'ojo abameta

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by naptu2: 3:14am On Jan 04
May his soul rest in peace.

I watched them train on my field before they went to the World Championship in 1985. It was an Under 16 championship back then.

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by GanagiBitrus: 7:40am On Jan 04
RIP.

Unfortunately, none of his gold-winning Eaglets made any remarkable impact at the senior level.
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by naptu2: 7:40am On Jan 04
GanagiBitrus:
RIP.

Unfortunately, none of his gold-winning Eaglets made any remarkable impact at the senior level.

That's not true.

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by Bilabong(m): 8:26am On Jan 04
Rip
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by oluwaseyi0: 8:27am On Jan 04
RIP
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by CJStarz: 8:27am On Jan 04
From his name,I used to think he was a foreigner.

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by femi4: 8:28am On Jan 04
Rip 442
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by McBishop2020: 8:28am On Jan 04
RIP sir
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by Nemesis0147(m): 8:28am On Jan 04
naptu2:


That's not true.
anyone?
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by tommy589(m): 8:29am On Jan 04
1985 when players selection was based on merit. If my memories serves me right, some of the players were picked from YSFON

RIP

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by youngrichnigga: 8:29am On Jan 04
God bless you Sir, rest in peace. You gave the country your all, may the god console the family you left behind 🙏🙏🙏
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by Sucre7: 8:29am On Jan 04
RIP legend
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by ppogba: 8:30am On Jan 04
GanagiBitrus:
RIP.

Unfortunately, none of his gold-winning Eaglets made any remarkable impact at the senior level.

Get your facts right.

Jonathan Akpoborire as a member of the team played at the highest level in his own right.

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by Donedeal1(m): 8:30am On Jan 04
Broderick RIP.
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by MMWandali: 8:31am On Jan 04
A patriot abandoned by his county and government
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by nairalanda1(m): 8:32am On Jan 04
GanagiBitrus:
RIP.

Unfortunately, none of his gold-winning Eaglets made any remarkable impact at the senior level.

Not very true. Ugbade did play at senior level for example.

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by GanagiBitrus: 8:34am On Jan 04
ppogba:


Get your facts right.

Jonathan Akpoborire as a member of the team played at the highest level in his own right.

Maybe you should check up the meaning of REMARKABLE. smiley

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by Roboto11: 8:35am On Jan 04
Oh no!!
May his soul rest in peace.
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by cenaman(m): 8:35am On Jan 04
RIP. These man impact lives positively than Buhari and Tinubu combine.
Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by nairalanda1(m): 8:35am On Jan 04
GanagiBitrus:


Maybe you should check up the meaning of REMARKABLE. smiley

Well, most of the squads of the countries could say the same like Nigeria...

The West German squad did not produce a single star player for example.

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by naptu2: 8:36am On Jan 04
Nemesis0147:
anyone?

At club level, Johnny (Jonathan Akpoborire) did wonderful things with Stuttgart in the late 1990s. He was the second highest goalscorer in the UEFA Cup Winners Cup and he got to the Cup Winners Cup final where they lost to Chelsea. He formed a fantastic partnership with Fredy Bobic and he was Stuttgart's highest goalscorer in one of those seasons. They also won the German Cup (obviously).

At National team level, Nduka Ugbade played in that Flying Eagles team that got to the final of the U20 World Cup in 1989. He scored a goal in the Miracle of Damman.

He also scored for the Super Eagles in the Nations Cup qualifier against Ethiopia in 1993 or 1994. He was a member of the team that won the 1994 African Nations Cup.

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by firearcher: 8:37am On Jan 04
GanagiBitrus:


Maybe you should check up the meaning of REMARKABLE. smiley

Lol. Do you know Jonathan Akpoborire?

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by davidtemi(m): 8:37am On Jan 04
Opened because of his name only to see a black man picture

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by tommy589(m): 8:38am On Jan 04
GanagiBitrus:
RIP.

Unfortunately, none of his gold-winning Eaglets made any remarkable impact at the senior level.

Most of them chose education ahead of a career in football

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by Faposky95: 8:39am On Jan 04
first to put Nigeria on the International Football Map.......
the Tellas and co. followed his footsteps......
we dont experience such these days, do we......?

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by Jagaban2012: 8:40am On Jan 04
All these Indomie generations will have nothing to say about this person...

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Re: Sebastian Broderick Is Dead by bigdammyj: 8:40am On Jan 04
R.I.P to him

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