Earlyface

FULL NAME:Stephen Okechukwu Keshi was born on 23 january 1962 in Azare, Bauchi stste, Nigeria.
Height    1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position    Defender

CURRENT COACHING JOB:    Nigeria (manager)
SENIOR CARRER
Years    Team    Apps†    (Gls)†
1979    ACB Lagos    10    (1)
1980–1984    New Nigeria Bank    42    (4)
1985    Stade d'Abidjan    13    (2)
1986    Africa Sports    22    (2)
1986–1987    Lokeren    28    (6)
1987–1991    Anderlecht    99    (18)
1991–1993    RC Strasbourg    62    (9)
1993–1994    Molenbeek    40    (1)
1995    CCV Hydra    20    (1)
1996    Sacramento Scorpions    16    (3)
1997–1998    Perlis FA    34    (4)
National team
1981–1995    Nigeria    64    (9)
Teams managed
2004–2006    Togo
2007–2008    Togo
2008–2010    Mali
2011    Togo
2011–    Nigeria
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Stephen Okechukwu Keshi (born 23 January 1962) is a Nigerian football manager and former football defender who has managed the Nigeria national team since 2011. He is one of only two people, along with Egypt's Mahmoud El-Gohary, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach.
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COACHING CAREER

After a playing career mostly with Belgian clubs, Keshi went to the United States to be educated in coaching.

In 1996 he was joined by Augustine Eguavoen, who once coached the Nigerian national team. They played together in California as the backbone of the defense for the short-lived Sacramento Scorpions. Keshi has been a part of the coaching staff for the Nigerian national team, most notably as head coach for the Junior Eagles at the 2001 African Youth Championship which also served as qualification for the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship, without success.

Between 2004 and 2006 Keshi coached the Togo national football team, unexpectedly bringing them to their first World Cup tournament, Germany 2006. Having secured Togo's unlikely qualification, he was promptly replaced by German coach Otto Pfister prior to the World Cup finals, after Togo showed a dismal performance and failed to advance to the knock-out stage in 2006 African Cup of Nations in Egypt.

However, Pfister did not last beyond a controversial World Cup campaign that nearly resulted in a player's strike over pay and Togo remained without a manager until February 2007 when they re-engaged Keshi in time for a friendly against Cameroon.

He worked as manager of the Mali national football team, after being appointed in April 2008 on a two-year deal.[2] Keshi was sacked in January 2010, after Mali's early exit in the group stages of the Africa Cup of Nations.[3]

Keshi became coach of the Nigerian National Team in 2011.[4][5] He led Nigeria to qualification for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, which they went on to win, defeating Burkina Faso 1–0 in the final.[6] The following day Keshi handed in his resignation,[7] only to reverse his decision the day after.[8]
Honours
Player

Club

New Nigeria Bank FC

    West African Club Championship (2): 1983, 1984

Stade d'Abidjan

    Coupe Houphoet Boigny (2): 1985, 1986

Africa Sports

    Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division (1): 1986
    Côte d'Ivoire Coupe (1): 1986

Anderlecht

    Belgian Cup (2): 1988, 1989
    Jupiler League (1): 1991

International

Nigeria

    Africa Cup of Nations (1): 1994

Manager

International

Nigeria

    Africa Cup of Nations (1): 2013