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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has expressed deep shock at news on Wednesday morning of the death of the first man to lead an African team to win a FIFA World Cup, coach Sebastian Brodricks-Imasuen, at a hospital in Benin City, Edo State.
The 85-year tactician, according to his family, was undergoing treatment for stroke and diabetes but gave up the ghost at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday.
“The NFF and the entire Nigeria football fraternity are sorely pained by the demise of coach Sebastian Brodricks-Imasuen. He worked very hard at his craft and was tireless in his efforts to bring honour to the homeland through the various national teams he worked with. No one can ever forget how he led an unsung group of boys to China to win a first-ever FIFA World Cup for Nigeria and Africa,” NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, said yesterday.
The soft-spoken, easy-going tactician also assisted Dutchman Clemens Westerhof as Nigeria finished as runners-up at the 1990 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Algeria.
