Erstwhile Super Eagles player, captain and coach, Stephen Keshi, died of cardiac arrest, according to dependable family sources.
Keshi, from Illah, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, it would be recalled, lost his wife, Kate, to cancer on December 9, 2015, and was said not to have gotten over her until his demise.
Survived by an aged mother and four children, was in Nigeria and had concluded plans to jet back to America where his family lives on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 when he suddenly died yesterday.
The sports world has been in deep mourning ever since the news broke.
Cardiac arrest, meanwhile, refers to the seizure of the heart. Preventing it from performing its normal activities.
It has claimed the lives of many sports men and women, among them Sam Okwaraji.