This Is How Google Honored Stephen Keshi On His 56th Post-Humous Birthday


Previous Nigerian Super Eagles skipper and mentor, Late Stephen Okechukwu Keshi is being respected today, January 23rd by tech Giant Google with a doodle on the event of his post-humous birthday. Keshi would have been 56 today.

Google said the doodle was to perceive the inheritance of the previous mentor Super Eagles skipper who passed on June 7, 2016 in Benin at 54.

Doodles are changes made to the Google logo to praise occasions, commemorations, and the lives of renowned specialists, pioneers, and researchers and awesome men who have their imprints.

We take a gander at nine things you most likely didn't think about the notorious Nigerian gaffer.



Google is likewise praising him by utilizing him as its doodle.

1.Stephen Keshi, a local of Edo State was conceived 23rd January 1962 in Azare, Bauchi State.

2. Keshi was taught at Saint Finbarr's College in Akoka. He along these lines got his secondary school declaration at Saint Gregory's College.

3.) He was head mentor of the Junior Eagles at the 2001 African Youth Championship.

4.) He instructed the Togo national football group in the vicinity of 2004 and 2006, shockingly driving them to their first World Cup competition, Germany 2006.

5.) Keshi additionally instructed the Mali national football group in the wake of being named in April 2008 on a two-year bargain however was sacked in January 2010, after Mali's initial exit in the Nations container.

6.) He was the mentor of Nigeria in the vicinity of 2011 and 2015, winning the African measure of Nations in 2013 and qualifying Nigeria for the FIFA Confederation glass and the World Cup.

7.) As a footballer, Keshi won the West African Club Championship (1983, 1984), Coupe Houphoet Boigny (1985, 1986), Belgian Cup (1988, 1989) among others.

8.) He was one of the main two individuals to win the African Cup of Nations both as a player and as a mentor.( The other individual is Egypt's Mahmoud El-Gohary)

9.) His wife,Kate (née Abureme), whom he had been hitched to for a long time and had four youngsters with, kicked the bucket in December 2015 after a long fight with disease. He never got over her passing.

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