A minute
silence in honour of late Coach Amodu Shuaibu was observed before all
fixtures of Match Day 22 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL)
kicks off this weekend.
Amodu died
in the early hours of Saturday in Benin and the League Management Company (LMC)
directed all Match Commissioners and Club Officials to ensure that players paid
their last respect to the one time Coach of BCC Lions and El-Kanemi Warriors
before the matches kick-off.
The LMC
enjoined the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) where the late Coach served as
Technical Director and Chief Instructor for all CAF Graded Coaching Courses,
the people of his home state, Edo State and the entire football stakeholders to
bear the loss with fortitude, noting that “in his lifetime, Amodu served
Nigeria’s football with commitment and made Edo State proud”.
“Amodu was
one of the Coaches that brought style and panache to club Coaching in Nigeria.
He made the league lively with his exploits at the various clubs he managed
before joining the national team on four different occasions”, remarked Shehu
Dikko, the LMC Chairman in sorrowful tones.
Amodu won
the FA Cup with BCC Lions of Gboko and El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri and
would also guide BCC Lions to win the Africa Winners Cup now named CAF
Confederation Cup. He guided Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) to the finals of
the CAF Champions League and at different times coach Sharks FC and Niger
Tornadoes. As the Super Eagles Coach at four different times, he guided the
teams through 15 World Cup qualifiers, won 12 and drew three but never lost
any.
As club
coach, the late Amodu was one of those that brought glamour to the bench in his
dapper suits and colourful ties and was seen as the Young Turk who upstaged the
older generation coaches like late Willy Bazuaye, Jossy Ladipo, Monday
Sinclair, Alabi Aisien and James Peters.
Dikko
described the late Coach as “a resource person who will remembered in the
history of our football for never hesitating to respond to the Football
Federation especially during difficult moments of the senior national team, the
Super Eagles”.
His remains
was interred at 4pm on Saturday, June 11 according to Islamic rites in his home
town, Okpella in Edo State.
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