Samuel Ojebode, former Shooting stars player now 3SC
football club Ibadan this morning died at the University College Hospital
as after unsuccessful protracted battle with cardiac congestion (Heart
related ailment).
Sam was the captain of the Shooting Stars football Club
between 1974 and 1980.
He was left full back for both club and country through
that period and his attacking runs down the left flank were a beauty to watch.
In 1976 he led Shooting Stars team that had the likes of
Segun Odegbami, Muda Lawal (late), Best Ogedegbe (late), Kunle Awesu, Otolorin
Moses, Idowu Otubusin (Slow Poison) to victory in the Africa Cup Winners Cup
and made history by becoming the first club side in Nigeria to win a
continental trophy.
The last two teams in that year’s championship were
Zamalek of Egypt in the semi-finals and Cameroon’s Roger Miller-led Tonnerre
Kalala in the finals.
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