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By Abdulgafar Oladimeji.
President Muhammad Buhari has appointed former Super Eagles and Everton FC of England attacker, Daniel Amokachi as Special Assistant to the president on sports.
According to a statement issued on Thursday by the Ministry of Youths and Sports, said the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF Boss Mustapha had in a letter dated 17th August 2020 confirmed the appointment of the one time African Cup of Nations hero and Olympic football gold medalist Daniel Amokachi.
The letter of appointment signed by the SGF said “ I am pleased to inform you that President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has approved your appointment as Special Assistant on Sports.”
The letter stated that the appointment of Daniel Amokachi a.k.a the bull as he is fondly called by soccer fans commences from 11th August 2020.
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Further, the missive said the newly appointed aide to the president Daniel Amokachi is mandated to advise the president on all matters bordering on sports.
Reacting, former Super Eagles utility player and teammate of the newly appointed aide to Mr. President, Garba Lawal described the appointment od Daniel Amokachi as well thought.
Lawal popularly known as Chindo in football circle in his hay days expressed satisfaction over the appointment of his teammate, noting that Daniel Amokachi had excelled as footballer, coach and technical director, adding that Amokachi poses the qualities and capacity to serve president Buhari in the Amokachi’s new office as Special Assistant on sports. Lawal posit.
According to Wikipedia Daniel Amokachi (born 30 December 1972) is a Nigerian former professional footballer and former assistant manager of the Nigeria national football team.
He has been a technical director since 2006. With World Cup performances, he was third in the African Footballer of the Year award three times. As a forward, he was known for his speed, technique and physical strength, which earnmed him the nicknames Black Bull and Black Train. Amokachi, who is also very popular and well known in his country, contributed to Nigeria‘s top two tournaments to the World Cup along with his attack partner Emmanuel Amunike. Amokachi scored the first goal of the UEFA Champions League with Club Brugge on 25 November 1992, beating CSKA Moscow 1–0.
Daniel Amokachi, nicknamed “The Bull”,[1] was discovered while playing for Ranchers Bees by Nigerian national team coach Clemens Westerhof, who brought the talented player to the 1990 African Nations Cup, and soon Amokachi moved to play for Club Brugge in Belgium.[1] He competed in the new format of the Champions League, and became the first player to score in the competition, after his goal secured a 1–0 win in the opening match in the group stage against CSKA Moscow. Performing well in Belgium and at the 1994 World Cup,[1] Everton became interested in Amokachi and their manager Mike Walker signed him for a fee of £3,000,000 ($4,700,000).[2][3] went on to win the FA Cup with Everton in 1995, scoring two goals in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur[1] after ‘substituting himself’ into the match while Paul Rideout was receiving treatment (the manager Joe Royle had only instructed him to warm up in preparation for possibly coming on).[4][5][3][2] He appeared in the final only briefly, late on, again as a substitute but is remembered fondly for his beret-wearing celebrations afterwards.[2][3]
Daniel Amokachi remained at Everton until the end of the 1995–96 season, when he was transferred to Beşiktaş of Turkey for a fee of £1.75million. He had failed to make the impact at Goodison Park that many fans had been hoping
