#mcm Rashidi Yekini 🇳🇬💚
Rashidi Yekini was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a striker. He is all time top goalscorer for his nation. His professional career, which spanned more than two decades, was mainly associated with Vitória de Setúbal in Portugal, but he also played in six other countries besides his own. Yekini scored 37 goals as a Nigerian international footballer, and represented the nation in seven major tournaments, including two World Cups where he scored the country's first-ever goal in the competition. He became the first Nigeria to become the Highest Goal scorer at the AFCONS Senegal 1992 & Tunisia 1994. He was also named the African Footballer of the Year in 1993. Additionally, Yekini helped the Super Eagles win the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia where he also topped the goal charts and was named best player of the competition. Yekini was reported to be ill for an extended period of time. In 2011, he was said to suffer from bipolar disorder, depression and some other undisclosed psychiatric condition. He died in Ibadan on 4 May 2012 at the young age of 48. He was buried at his residence in Ira, Kwara State. He was survived by his aged mother, brother, wives and children, among others.
Rashidi Yekini was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a striker. He is all time top goalscorer for his nation. His professional career, which spanned more than two decades, was mainly associated with Vitória de Setúbal in Portugal, but he also played in six other countries besides his own. Yekini scored 37 goals as a Nigerian international footballer, and represented the nation in seven major tournaments, including two World Cups where he scored the country's first-ever goal in the competition. He became the first Nigeria to become the Highest Goal scorer at the AFCONS Senegal 1992 & Tunisia 1994. He was also named the African Footballer of the Year in 1993. Additionally, Yekini helped the Super Eagles win the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia where he also topped the goal charts and was named best player of the competition. Yekini was reported to be ill for an extended period of time. In 2011, he was said to suffer from bipolar disorder, depression and some other undisclosed psychiatric condition. He died in Ibadan on 4 May 2012 at the young age of 48. He was buried at his residence in Ira, Kwara State. He was survived by his aged mother, brother, wives and children, among others.