{"id":35844,"date":"2019-11-04T10:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=35844"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T09:52:23","slug":"kwara-gov-mourns-recalls-years-under-coach-adenuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/kwara-gov-mourns-recalls-years-under-coach-adenuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Gov Mourns, Recalls Years Under Coach Adenuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-NG\">Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commiserated with the family, prot\u00e9g\u00e9s and contemporaries of Coach Usman Adenuja, the head coach of the defunct Kwara Academicals and the Northern Lions, who died on Wednesday, October 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-NG\">AbdulRazaq said in a condolence statement personally signed by him that he was once a player of the Kwara State Football team which Adenuja coached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-NG\">\u201cCoach Adenuja was the football coach when I represented Kwara State at the National Sports Festival in Lagos in 1973. He was a great coach and a leader of men. He was great at what he did! I pray to the Almighty God to repose his soul and comfort the family he has left behind,\u201d the Governor said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-NG\">\u201cI also commiserate with the entire sports family in Kwara and Kogi States, especially the football family, which benefited immensely from the ingenuity, patriotism and commitment of Coach Adenuja while he held sway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-NG\">The Governor recalled visiting Adenuja in his Okene country home a few years ago while he also spoke with his son, Abubakar, a week ago to inquire about the health of the coach.<\/span><\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"en-NG\">Adenuja, a former head of coaching at the Kwara State Sports Council and Ag. Director of Sports at the Council, was from the old Kwara State before the creation of Kogi in 1991. He was also a very skillful footballer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-NG\">Top players like Moses Otolorin and Toyin Ayinla, among others, were nurtured by Coach Adenuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-NG\">Prominent coaches who grew up under Adenuja&#8217;s tutelage include\u00a0 Busari Isola and Albert Adetoye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commiserated with the family, prot\u00e9g\u00e9s and contemporaries of Coach Usman Adenuja, the head coach of the defunct Kwara Academicals and the Northern Lions, who died on Wednesday, October 29.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6370],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-35844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-coach-usman-adenuja"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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