Yomi Tella
Deceased Person
– 2007
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Who was Yomi Tella?
Yomi Tella was the Nigerian Coach for the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup; his team won the tournament.
Tella, a former lecturer at the National Institute for Sports in Lagos, had been diagnosed with cancer of the lungs when he led his team to a pre-World Cup eight-nation tournament in South Korea in June 2007.
A month before his death, he was awarded the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic medal - an important honour - for his achievement, by the Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua.
Tella spent the last two weeks of his life at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital. He died on 20 October 2007, aged 56.
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