Stephen Keshi

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Stephen Keshi
Personnel
Surname Stephen Okechukwu Keshi
birthday January 23, 1962
place of birth Lagos ,  Nigeria
date of death June 8, 2016
Place of death Benin City ,  Nigeria
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979 ACB Lagos
1980-1984 New Nigerian Bank
1985 Stade d'Abidjan
1986 Africa Sports National
1986-1987 SC Lokeren 28 0(6)
1987-1991 RSC Anderlecht 99 (18)
1991-1993 Racing Strasbourg 62 0(9)
1993-1994 RWD Molenbeek 4 0(0)
1995 CCV Hydra 4 0(0)
1996 Sacramento Scorpions
1997 Perlis FA ? 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1982-1994 Nigeria at least 64 0(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1997-2004 Nigeria (assistant coach)
2004-2006 Togo
2007 Togo
2008-2010 Mali
2011-2014 Nigeria
1 Only league games are given.

Stephen Okechukwu Keshi (born January 23, 1962 in Lagos , † June 8, 2016 in Benin City ) was a Nigerian football player and coach . He was the second man after Mahmoud El-Gohary to win the African Football Championship as a player (captain) ( 1994 ) and as a coach ( 2013 ). He belonged to the Igbo ethnic group .

Player career

From 1979 to 1984 Keshi played in Nigeria for the clubs ACB Lagos and New Nigerian Bank. Then he went to the Ivory Coast to Stade d'Abidjan . A season later he moved to league competitor Africa Sports National , with whom he won the Ivorian championship and the cup in 1986. Then Keshi went to Europe to the Belgian club SC Lokeren and was signed for the next season by the Belgian record champions RSC Anderlecht . There he played for four years until 1991, during which time he won the Belgian championship once (1991) and twice the cup (1988 and 1989). Then Keshi moved to the French second division team Racing Strasbourg and made promotion to Ligue 1 with the team in 1992 . Another season later he went back to Belgium to Racing White Daring Molenbeek , now FC Brussels, to play his last season in Europe.

In 1995 Keshi went to the United States and joined CCV Hydra in the USL Second Division . On the side, he began his trainer training here. A year later he moved to the Sacramento Scorpions and another year later to Malaysia to Perlis FA , before ending his active career at the age of 36.

National team

Stephen Keshi played for the Nigerian national soccer team from 1982 to 1994 . During this time he took part in five different African championships. He was also the captain of the Nigerian squad at the 1994 World Cup in the United States.

Coaching career

Immediately after the end of his playing career, Keshi became assistant coach of the national team . In 2004 he became the head coach of the Togolese national team . With the team, he managed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but was fired before the World Cup and replaced by Otto Pfister . Togo was eliminated from the 2006 African Cup without points in the preliminary round. After several strikes by the Togolese players because of outstanding payments, Pfister also left and the national team remained without a coach until February 2007, when Keshi was temporarily reinstated.

From April 2, 2008 he coached the national team of Mali . After the elimination of the Malian national team after the preliminary round of the African Cup of Nations in 2010 , he was dismissed and replaced by Alain Giresse .

On November 3, 2011, Keshi was appointed the new national coach of the Nigerian national team and won the 2013 African Cup with her . During the tournament he had accused the Nigerian Association of a lack of trust in its work. Therefore, after winning the title, he initially announced his resignation, but withdrew it one day later. At the Football World Cup 2014 he was eliminated with the team after a 2-0 defeat in the round of 16 against France . On the same day, he resigned as national coach.

death

Stephen Keshi died of a heart attack on June 8, 2016 . A few months earlier, his wife Nkem Kate Keshi succumbed to breast cancer in December 2015 . They both left their three children Stephanie Ifeyinwa, Femi Stephen and Jennifer.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Football icon Stephen Keshi dies suddenly at 54 on thecable.ng (English)
  2. ↑ Keshi for Jodar (www.transfermarkt.de, April 2, 2008)
  3. ↑ Africa Cup hero Keshi: Resignation from resignation . Kicker.de, February 12, 2013. Accessed June 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ fifa.com: Nigeria's coach Keshi resigns
  5. ↑ Much praise - but Keshi resigns - World Cup - kicker online
  6. ↑ www.independent.co.uk: Stephen Keshi dead: Nigerian football legend suffers heart attack at 54 June 8, 2016, accessed June 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ www.naija.ng: Stephen Keshi's children. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ fifa.com: "Super Eagles" triumph in Africa
  9. ↑ Welt.de: Africa winner Nigeria celebrates its Beckenbauer
personal data
SURNAME Keshi, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keshi, Stephen Okechukwu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2016
Place of death Benin city