Onigbinde, Ex-Super Eagles coach, FIFA/CAF Instructor Dies In Modakeke

Former Nigerian national team coach, High Chief Festus Adegboye Onigbinde, is dead.

The demise of the late football administrator, which occurred on Monday night, was announced by the family in a statement signed by Mrs Bolade Adesuyi.

“We announce the passing of this great man, a Modakeke High Chief, the first indigenous Nigerian Super Eagles coach, father, husband, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother and friend, High Chief Festus Adegboye Onigbinde, who passed away unto the great beyond a couple of minutes ago,” the statement read.

The late Modakeke High Chief was born on March 5, 1938, and was widely regarded as an icon of Nigerian football.

Onigbinde served as coach of the Nigerian national team twice, first between 1981 and 1984 when the team was known as the Green Eagles.

He led the Green Eagles to the Africa Cup of Nations final in 1984.

He later returned to lead the Super Eagles to the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan, heading a consortium of coaches to the tournament.

The late football technocrat also coached IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan and later served as the club’s general manager, renaming it Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC), while also working for many years as a FIFA/CAF instructor involved in training coaches across Africa.