25 years after winning a gold medal, a former Nigerian player drives a bus to support his family

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Ubiquio said he preferred to work as a bus driver instead of complaining

Former Nigerian footballer Kingsley Obikio says he had to work as a bus driver to support his family, 25 years following winning the gold medal with his country at the Olympics.

And when people spotted the player this week driving a bus in the city of Enugu, eastern Nigeria, his story spread online. And then the captain of the Nigerian national team, Ahmed Musa, gave him $ 5,000 to help him.

Obikio told the BBC he missed a lot of opportunities because he didn’t finish school when he was young.

“After I retired from playing in 2004 and completed the coaching period in Britain, I returned to Nigeria in 2008, but all the first-class teams rejected me, because I was not a well-known coach, as they put it.”

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