Head coach of Nigeria’s Beach Soccer national team, Audu Adamu has died suddenly in Anyigba, Kogit state, Nigeria.
Before the disbandment of the team following 2019 World Cup poor outing in Paraguay, Adamu, who became the technical adviser of the Supersand Eagles in 2009, inspired the country to one Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations triumph same year in Durban, South Africa.
Coach ‘Ejor’ as fondly called by friends and players, also led the country to four Beach Soccer World Cup tournaments, and Copa Lagos success three times.
The Kogi-born coach also handled the Kogi Beach Soccer club, winning several national and international competitions, including a silver at Keta Cup in Ghana in 2016.
On Saturday evening, former NFF Beach Soccer secretary and Fifa instructor Sunday Okayi confirmed the sad development to the beach soccer family.
“Good evening Friends. It is with a heavy heart that I wish to inform us that our Coach, Friend and Brother has gone to be with his Maker. He breathed his last some minutes go,” he wrote on social media.
SavidNews also exclusively gathered from family sources that the deceased died from complications of diabetes.
“He could not talk as at Saturday morning and the situation got worse as the diabetes had already eaten deeply into his system,” the source told SavidNews earlier on Saturday afternoon.
His death will be the second loss to the Beach Soccer national team, following the demise of his assistant coach Chukwuma Agbo on February 20, 2019.
This is also coming up just 24 hours to the kick of the 2021 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations in Senegal, which the Supersand Eagles will not be participating in for the first time in their history.
Credits: Savid
