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Place of Birth: Modakeke, Osun State, Nigeria
About Festus Onigbinde
- Festus 'Adegboye' Onigbinde (born March 5, 1938 in Modakeke) is a Nigerian football manager.
- He coached Nigeria national team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, an achievement he had already gotten, between 1982 and 1984.
- In 1984, Mr.
- Onigbinde took Nigeria into the final match of the 1984 Africa Nations Cup.
- Nigeria lost 1-3 to Cameroun in that match.
- Later in 1984,he took over as coach of Shooting Stars Sports Club in Ibadan and took the Club to the final of the Africa Club Champions Cup.
- They lost the finals to Zamalek of Egypt. Mr Onigbinde took over the Nigerian national team after the sack of the coaching crew of Shuaibu Amodu following what was considered a disgraceful performance of the Super Eagles at the 2002 Africa Nations Cup.
- Mr Onigbinde took ateam that consisted largely of young and inexperienced players. But the Japan/South Korea edition was the worst Nigerian performance in the World Cup history: for the first time in this competition, Nigeria did not win a single match and was knocked out of the tournament in the first round. In the first game they lost 0-1 to Argentina, after a goal of Gabriel Batistuta.
- In the second match, against Sweden, Nigeria lost 1-2 after leading 1-0, meaning the elimination of the World Cup.
- The third game was a goalless draw to England. After the World Cup, some Nigerian players, like Jay-Jay Okocha and Julius Aghahowa, criticized Onigbinde for nominating the wrong players. However, some of the players remained in the Super Eagles for many years.
- Mr.
- Onigbinde remains a highly respected Nigerian soccer tactician.
- He has served as CAF and FIFA Technical instructor. According to Onigbinde himself, on BBC Sport Online, Adegboye is not one of his original names: 'I dropped my baptismal name 'Festus' in 1960 through Nigeria's Daily Times newspaper and have been answering [no 'to'] Adegboye Onigbinde...I discovered Festus didn't mean anything, so I changed to 'Adegboye', meaning 'a child born to reclaim a chieftaincy title'.
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