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Nigerian football won’t be the same without Keshi -Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said Nigerian football would no longer remain the same with the death of a former Coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi. Buhari stated this in a post on his official Twitter handle, @NGRPresident. He said Nigerians would miss the Keshi because he gave his all for the country. He said with Keshi’s death, Nigeria had lost a great sportsman, football player and coach as well as a citizen. The President said, “Nigeria today lost a great sportsman, football player, coach and citizen. “President Buhari commiserates with the family of the late Stephen Keshi, and with the entire country, on his untimely passing. “Nigerian football will not be the same without Stephen Keshi. He gave this country his all. May his soul rest in peace.”

The Former Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, is dead. A tweet on the Nigeria Football Federation’s handle, @thenff, says the legend died in the early hours of Wednesday. The former international football player and coach, lost his wife, Kate, last year after a prolonged battle with cancer. Keshi has coached the national teams of Togo and Mali, qualifying the former to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In his last job with Nigeria, he won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and reached the Round of 16 at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.