A former captain and head coach of the Super Eagles, Christian Chukwu, is dead.
PUNCH Online gathered that the former Enugu Rangers coach died at the age of 74 in the early hours of Saturday.
However, the exact circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear as of the time of filing this report.
His longtime teammate and friend, Dr. Olusegun Odegbami, confirmed the development in a post via his official X handle on Saturday.
Odegbami, who won the 1980 Africa Nation Cup with Chukwu, wrote, “My Chairman has passed on. This morning, ‘Chairman’ Christian Chukwu, MFR, my bosom friend and teammate, one of the greatest football players in Nigeria’s football history, former captain and coach of Nigeria’s national football team, has passed on.”
Chukwu captained the national team to their first-ever Africa Cup of Nations title in 1980 and later led the Super Eagles as head coach in the early 2000s.
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