- His full name was Stephen Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi.
- He was born on January 23, 1962.
- He hails from Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State.
- He played as a defender for Super Eagles of Nigerian and several football clubs.
- Apart from the Nigerian national team, Keshi coached the Togolese and Malian national teams.
- He is the only coach to have taken the Togolese team to the World cup championship till date.
- The first football club he ever played for in Nigeria was ACB Football Club, before joining New Nigeria Bank, Stade d’Abidjan, Africa Sports, Lokeren, Anderlecht, RC Strasbourg among other clubs.
- From 1981 to 1995 when he stopped playing international football for Nigeria, Keshi appeared 64 times in the Eagles colour and scored a total of nine goals.
- He served as head coach for the Junior Eagles at the 2001 African Youth Championship.
- He spoke French and English fluently.
- Keshi was one of the only two soccer stars, along with Egypt’s Mahmoud El-Gohary, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations both as a player and a coach.
- He won the African Nations Cup in 1994 as a captain and as a coach in 2013.
- His wife of 33 years, Kate died on December 9, 2015 after losing a long battle with cancer.
- He is the only African coach to take a national team to the round of 16 in the world cup
- He is the only African coach to take two national teams to the world cup
- Keshi is survived by four children and his mother.
