“I wasn’t passionate about the game”

Mathematical is one of some soccer stars Nigeria has produced; a legend of the screens of pastime and a hero to many

Segun Odegbami is without doubt one of the best gamers to have ever gained the Nigerian jersey and regardless of spending only some years within the Nigerian nationwide group, he’s the second prime scorer within the nationwide group’s historical past.

The Nigerian soccer legend has turned 70 and is without doubt one of the finest ever seen within the nation.

Odegbami in an interview with foremost Nigerian sports journalist Calvin Emeka Onwuka revealed that he by no means performed soccer for the fervour he had for it.

The Taking pictures Stars of Ibadan legend stated his ardour for the sport wasn’t something close to what his teammate possessed.

“I used to be simply having fun with myself and simply enjoying it. I used to be not passionate just like the others. I used to be not keen about soccer. I used to be not like Muda (Lawal), Thompson Usiyen, Rashidi (Yekini). These had been guys who ate and slept and dreamt soccer. I wasn’t like that.”

Odegbami additionally talked about his fame and the way followers adored him.

”For a way massive a participant I believed I used to be… I listened to Rashidi Yekini in an interview and he stated he performed in Setubal throughout one recreation and he went house bare. And I might instantly simply perceive as a result of the followers stripped him bare. They had been taking each a part of his outfit. One took his shoe, his socks and the whole lot and he went house bare.

“I used to be stripped bare like that one morning on the Nationwide Stadium at an FA Cup last. I had solely my shorts to take house. They carried me from the stadium to the automobile and eliminated the whole lot from my physique. Some folks prevented them from eradicating my shorts. And so they put me on this automobile and so they pushed that automobile from the nationwide stadium by means of Surulere and precipitated visitors in all places,” Odegbami narrated.