Stephen Keshi

Stephen Okechukwu Keshi ( born January 31, 1962 in Lagos) is a Nigerian football coach and former player. He became the second man after Mahmoud El- Gohary, the African Cup of Nations in 1994 as a player ( captain ) and African Cup of Nations in 2013 as a coach. He belongs to the ethnic group of the Igbo.

Playing career

From 1979 to 1984 Stephen Keshi played in his native Nigeria at the clubs ACB Lagos and New Nigerian Bank. After that he went to the Ivory Coast to Stade d' Abidjan. Only one season later he moved to league rivals Africa Sports National, with whom he won the 1986 Ivorian league and cup double. After this success season Keshi went to Europe for Belgian club Lokeren SC. But even here he remained faithful to his club for only one season and was then obliged by Belgian giants RSC Anderlecht. There he played for four years until 1991 and won in this time once the Belgian Championship (1991 ) and twice the Cup (1988 and 1989). Then Keshi joined the French second division side Racing Strasbourg and managed with the team in 1992 promotion to the Ligue 1 Another season later he went back to Belgium to Racing White Daring Molenbeek, today's FC Brussels, there to play his last season in Europe. 1995 Stephen Keshi went to the United States and was hired by CCV Hydra in the USL Second Division at. Besides he began here with his trainer training. A year later he moved to the Sacramento Scorpions and another year later after Perlis FA Malaysia, before he ended his active career at the age of 36 years

National

Stephen Keshi played from 1982 to 1994 for the Nigerian national football team. During this time he participated in five different African Championship. He was also captain of the Nigerian squad for the Soccer World Cup 1994 in the United States.

Coaching career

Directly after the end of the playful career Stephen Keshi went back to his home country of Nigeria and was assistant coach of the national team. In 2004 he was in Togo for the first time head coach of a national team (Togo). With the team he managed to qualify for the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany, but was released before the World Cup and replaced by Otto Pfister. The chaos of the Association stopped and Togo difference in the African Cup in 2006 without any points from the previous round. After several strikes the Togolese players on outstanding payments also Pfister went away and the national team remained until February 2007 without a coach, then Keshi was temporarily suspended again. As of April 2, 2008, he coached the national team of Mali. After the preliminary round from the Malian national team at the African Cup of Nations 2010, he was dismissed and replaced by Alain Giresse. On November 3, 2011 Keshi was appointed as the new coach of the Nigerian national football team and won with her ​​prompt the African Cup 2013. During the tournament, he was outraged that the association with the precautionary booking the return flight after the quarterfinals lack of confidence in his work would have shown and had threatened him, nor to fire him during the tournament. Therefore, he gave after winning the title at first spontaneously announced his retirement, but took it back a day later.

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  • As a player: Ivorian champions: 1986
  • Ivorian Cup Winners: 1986
  • Belgian Cup winner: 1988 and 1989
  • Belgian champion: 1991
  • African Cup of Nations: 1994
  • Africa Cup: 2013 ( Nigerian football national team)
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