{"id":306,"date":"2021-05-23T07:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2023-05-22T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T09:06:55","slug":"nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">The Head Coach of Nigeria\u2019s beach soccer national team fondly referred to as the Super Sand Eagles, Audu Adamu Ejo, is dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">Premium Times reported that Adamu died late Saturday night in <a href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/2023\/05\/22\/flooding-nimet\/\">Kogi<\/a> State where he hails from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">He was undergoing treatment for diabetes before his death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed the sad development via a message on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ebirareporters\">Twitter<\/a> handle while also praying for the repose of the soul of the hardworking coach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">\u201cWe are sad to announce the demise of Super Sand Eagles Coach Audu Adamu Ejo after a brief illness. Late Coach Ejo contributed immensely to the development of Beach Soccer in Nigeria. Our thoughts are with his family and the Football community. May his soul Rest In Peace,\u201d the NFF wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">Adamu before his death achieved quite a lot with the country\u2019s team including inspiring them to one Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations title in Durban, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">He also led the country to four\u00a0 World Cup tournaments, and Copa Lagos success three times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">Adamu most recently handled the Kogi\u00a0 club, winning several national and international competitions, including a silver at Keta Cup in Ghana in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">Adamu\u2019s death comes as another big loss to the Beach Soccer national team, following the demise of the assistant coach of the team, Chukwuma Agbo, on February 20, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Head Coach of Nigeria\u2019s beach soccer national team fondly referred to as the Super Sand Eagles, Audu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1653,437,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audu-adamu","9":"tag-nff","10":"tag-nigerian-beach-soccer"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi - Ebira Reporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Head Coach of Nigeria\u2019s beach soccer national team fondly referred to as the Super Sand Eagles, Audu Adamu Ejo, is dead. Adamu died late\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi - Ebira Reporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Head Coach of Nigeria\u2019s beach soccer national team fondly referred to as the Super Sand Eagles, Audu Adamu Ejo, is dead. Adamu died late\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ebira Reporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-23T07:25:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-22T09:06:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ebirareporters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ebirareporters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7e2919de185342f413c196898786669\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-23T07:25:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-22T09:06:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Audu Adamu\",\"NFF\",\"Nigerian Beach Soccer\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/\",\"name\":\"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi - Ebira Reporters\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-23T07:25:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-22T09:06:55+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Head Coach of Nigeria\u2019s beach soccer national team fondly referred to as the Super Sand Eagles, Audu Adamu Ejo, is dead. Adamu died late\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/\",\"name\":\"Ebira Reporters\",\"description\":\"Kogi News and Media\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ebira Reporters\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Ebira Reporters\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ebirareporters\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7e2919de185342f413c196898786669\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec8d4dcc37d068d4740761605928ba4b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec8d4dcc37d068d4740761605928ba4b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\",\"www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ebirareporters\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/author\/ebirareporters\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi - Ebira Reporters","description":"The Head Coach of Nigeria\u2019s beach soccer national team fondly referred to as the Super Sand Eagles, Audu Adamu Ejo, is dead. Adamu died late","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi - Ebira Reporters","og_description":"The Head Coach of Nigeria\u2019s beach soccer national team fondly referred to as the Super Sand Eagles, Audu Adamu Ejo, is dead. Adamu died late","og_url":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/","og_site_name":"Ebira Reporters","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters","article_author":"www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters","article_published_time":"2021-05-23T07:25:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-05-22T09:06:55+00:00","author":"Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ebirareporters","twitter_site":"@ebirareporters","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7e2919de185342f413c196898786669"},"headline":"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi","datePublished":"2021-05-23T07:25:31+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-22T09:06:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/"},"wordCount":235,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["Audu Adamu","NFF","Nigerian Beach Soccer"],"articleSection":["News","Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/","url":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/","name":"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi - Ebira Reporters","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-05-23T07:25:31+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-22T09:06:55+00:00","description":"The Head Coach of Nigeria\u2019s beach soccer national team fondly referred to as the Super Sand Eagles, Audu Adamu Ejo, is dead. Adamu died late","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/nigerias-beach-soccer-team-coach-adamu-ejo-dies-in-kogi\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nigeria\u2019s Beach Soccer Team Coach, Adamu Ejo Dies in Kogi"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/","name":"Ebira Reporters","description":"Kogi News and Media","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#organization","name":"Ebira Reporters","url":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"Ebira Reporters"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters","https:\/\/x.com\/ebirareporters"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e7e2919de185342f413c196898786669","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec8d4dcc37d068d4740761605928ba4b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec8d4dcc37d068d4740761605928ba4b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/ebirareporters.com","www.facebook.com\/ebirareporters","https:\/\/x.com\/ebirareporters"],"url":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/author\/ebirareporters\/"}]}},"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","cnvs-small":"","cnvs-thumbnail":"","pk-small":"","pk-thumbnail":"","csco-small":"","csco-intermediate":"","csco-thumbnail":"","csco-thumbnail-alternative":"","csco-thumbnail-uncropped":"","csco-medium":"","csco-medium-alternative":"","csco-medium-uncropped":"","csco-large":"","csco-large-uncropped":"","csco-extra-large":""},"author_info":{"info":["Admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/category\/news\/sports\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"2":{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/category\/news\/"},"3":{"name":"Sports","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/category\/news\/sports\/"}},"tags_names":{"1653":{"name":"Audu Adamu","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/tag\/audu-adamu\/"},"437":{"name":"NFF","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/tag\/nff\/"},"27":{"name":"Nigerian Beach Soccer","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/tag\/nigerian-beach-soccer\/"}},"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7138,"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/7138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}