November 22, 2024
Titus-Okere-

Nigeria’s oldest former international footballer, who died 13 June will be buried on Thursday.

His granddaughter, Frances Okere informed Sports Village Square that the pioneer member of the Nigeria national football team will be buried at the Bluebell Hill Crematorium in Kent, United Kingdom.

Titus Okere died aged 94 and thus was the oldest former Nigerian international. He was a member of Nigeria’s first national team, the famed UK Tourists of 1949.

He clocked 94 last 22 March.

Until his death, he remained last point of contact for the famous 1949 UK Tourists.

Okere, the left wing wizard of the team  was initially projected to captain the 1949 squad, lived a quiet life in Kent, some 61km to London in the UK.

His 94th birthday coincided with the 43rd anniversary of Nigeria’s first victory at the Africa Cup of Nations. When the then Green Eagles lifted the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time on 22 March, 1980, it was like a divine tribute to the pioneer Nigerian left winger. He was 51 on that day.

Similarly, Joseph Meads, the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) inaugural secretary who was also the convener of the 21 August 1933 meeting in which the Nigerian football body now known as NFF was founded (not 1945 as wrongly claimed), was also born on a 22 March date in 1907.

He should had been 73 years; the day Nigeria beat Algeria to win the Africa Nations Cup for the first time in 1980.

Okere in 1949 was described by Edgar Kail in UK’s Daily  Graphic as having a net worth of £15,000 and a row of houses.

The Liverpool Echo edition of 1 September 1949 was astonished about the speed and brilliance of Titus Okere at the outside left and averred that given his experience, “he could find a place in most European League sides.”

Four years later, Okere found himself in the UK at the height of  winter. Since his 1953 venture abroad, he seemed to have escaped everyone’s radar.

 

 

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