*The late coach Sebastine Brodricks-Imasuen
PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JANUARY 03, 2024
It was gathered by Hobnob News reports that Mr Sebastine Brodericks-Imasuen, a former Golden Eaglets coach who led the Eaglets to win the inaugural U-17 World Cup in 1985 is dead! He is reported to have been on life support for over a year before he breathed his last at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Edo State.
One of his trained players, Bamidele Oguntuashe, first broke the news which was confirmed by Harrison Jalla, the Chairman, of the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria Task Force through a WhatsApp post.
Family sources for the death of the iconic coach who had been bed-ridden for some months now. He reportedly suffered from a stroke and diabetes.
According to Hobnob News reports, the late coach was one of the football players who represented Nigeria at the Mexico Olympic Games in 1968 and famously scored from a free kick to win the then Challenge Cup for Bendel Insurance in 1972.
*The late Coach Sebastine Brodricks-Imasuen
Being a coach, he was the head of a three-man crew that included Bala Shamaki and Christian Chukwu when the Nigerian team shocked the world in China in 1985. He led the team again in 1987 to Canada and got to the final before losing through a penalty shoot-out to the then-Soviet Union.
He then began his football career in 1956 when as a student, he featured for the Onitsha team in the Challenge Cup. In 1962, he joined the then ECN and was part of the Challenge Cup-winning side of 1965.
He was popularly referred to as ‘Sabara’, his biggest moment as a club player was when he scored the winning goal in the 3-2 victory for Bendel Insurance in the replay of the 1972 Challenge Cup with Mighty Jets of Jos at the Liberty Stadium – the first time the national cup final was held outside Lagos.
Much later, became a coach and handled the Midwest junior side to win a gold medal at the inaugural National Sports Festival in 1973.
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