By Daily Sports on December 11, 2015

Celebrated coach and ex-international Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has lost Kate, his wife of 33 years. She died of cancer on Wednesday in tier USA base, Keshi’s brother and agent Emmanuel Ado said in an official statement issued yesterday in Kaduna on behalf of the bereaved immediate past coach of the Nigerian senior national soccer team, the Super Eagles.

Ado said: “With gratitude to God, the family of Mr Stephen Okechukwu Keshi announces the death of our wife, mother, daughter and sister, Mrs Kate Keshi nee Abureme. She died in the United States of America. She has in the last three years battled with cancer. She gave a good fight until she finally succumbed yesterday.

“She is survived by her husband of 33 years, 4 children, her mother, brother and sisters. And numerous relatives. We ask for prayers for her.”

The late wife of the former Togo and Mali gaffer is survived by her husband, four children, mother, brother and sisters.

•Photo shows Keshi and late Kate at a function.

Source Daily Sports

Posted December 11, 2015

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