The Ogun State
Football Association (OGSFA) and the state chapter of the Sport Writers
Association of Nigeria (SWAN), have joined the Nigeria football family to mourn
and grief over the death of former Nigerian youth international, Raymond King.
In separate press
releases by Sanusi Lateef, as the Secretary of SWAN and the media officer of
OGSFA, the two bodies sympathized with the family of the deceased and prayed to
God to grant his family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
Raymond King died on
New Year’s Day at the age of 52, getting 2018 off on a sad note.
According to his
former teammate, Tajudeen Disu he died at the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital just before adequate treatment was about to be given to him.
The former flamboyant
goalkeeper died after a brief illness.
Late King was
receiving treatment at the General Hospital in Ijaye a week ago, but his
conditions never improved.
He was transferred
from the State Hospital, Abeokuta to Ikorodu General Hospital when his
condition was not improving.
However, when the news
got to the Lagos state Commissioner for Health, Olajide Idris, he directed that
King should be taken to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) for
better treatment.
He eventually died at
LASUTH.
King was a member of
the Flying Eagles squad in 1979/80 and he made his name in football playing for
the Shooting Stars of Ibadan.
The high point of his
career for 3SC was during the team’s 1984 campaign for the then CAF African Cup
of Champions where the team finished as runners-up to Zamalek of Egypt.
He also featured for
the defunct Abiola Babes of Abeokuta with whom he won the 1987 FA Cup title.
After he retired from
active football, he went into coaching and he was at one time the goalkeeper
trainer of Gateway United Football Club of Abeokuta.
He was living alone in
Abeokuta up until the time of his death, although he had four children from two
women.
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