Thompson Oliha, ex-Nigerian Green Eagles player dies at 44

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Late Thompson Oliha

THE sport circle in the country was again thrown into mourning on Sunday when news filtered in that former Super Eagles player Thompson Oliha had passed on.

TNI gathered that Oliha died at Yusjib Industrial Medicare in Ilorin after he reportedly slumped in his toilet on Sunday before he was rushed to the hospital where the Chief Medical Director Dr Abdulraheem Yusuf, confirmed him dead.

Oliha, a midfielder was a member of the Super Eagles team that played at the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 1994, two months after the squad won the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time in Tunisia.

The late midfielder was also a member of the Flying Eagles squad to the 1987 World Cup in Chile.

Thompson Oliha first played for the senior national team in a 1988 Olympic Games qualifying match against Algeria in Annaba in January 1988, and then became a fixture in the team at the 1990 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Algeria.

The ex-Nigeria international was Until his death,  the coach of the senior students of Kwara Footbal Academy, Ilorin, Kwara State