Fifa President Sepp Blatter paid tribute to Nigeria’s late football hero Rashidi Yekini on Wednesday.
Yekini who scored Nigeria’s first World Cup goal, and remains
the country’s all-time top scorer with 37 goals from 58 games for the
senior national team, died on 4th May 2012.
The former Olympiacos and Vitoria Setubal striker would have turned
50 on 23rd of October if he were alive, and Blatter tweeted a tribute in
honour of the legend’s birthday.
“Rasheed Yekini would have been 50 today. His name as scorer of Nigeria’s first World Cup goal lives on,” the message on Blatter’s official twitter handle read.
Yekini was top scorer in the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations enroute to
the Super Eagles winning the competition which he was also adjudged to
be the Most Valuable Player.
Sleep on Yekini,you will always be remembered.
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