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Published 13 February 2021
In this report, ’TANA AIYEJINA takes a look at the illustrious career of late ex-Super Eagles defender Yisa Sofoluwe, who was buried on Wednesday in Lagos
The big wigs of Nigerian football or top government officials were not there, neither was the fanfare and ceremony usually associated with the burial of a national hero, during Yisa Sofoluwe’s burial on Wednesday at Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos.
Yet, this was a man who toiled for close to a decade in his quest to put the country’s name on the global football map.
Former Super Eagles defender Sofoluwe died on Tuesday evening at the Intensive Care Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, after being diagnosed with mild cerebral atrophy, a brain disease. He died at the of age 53.