Sadly, the Nigerian football community has been hit with another devastating news of the former youth international Gift Atulewa who just fied at the age of 38.
According to recent report, Late Gift died of complications from high blood pressure.
Azuka Chiemeka, spokesperson for the Delta State Football Association, confirmed the sad news to PREMIUM TIMES.
Mr Azuka confirmed, Atulewa succumbed to complications from high blood pressure around 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
“We just buried the wife last month, that may have contributed to this development. He has blood pressure issues but he has been managing it, just day before yesterday, the condition became bad and he was taken to the hospital, they noticed he had malaria but aside from that, the blood pressure kept going up, we lost him this morning by 7 a.m.” The Delta State FA spokesperson told PREMIUM TIMES.
Mr Azuka reflected on Atulewa’s recent involvement in football, saying, “As we are speaking, there is an ex-international football tournament going on in Delta State and he is part of the ex Uwei where he comes from, he is part of their team, he scored the first goal of the tournament from his wonderful free kick that he is known for, he scored that goal like three weeks ago when the competition began.”
Also, Atulewa had recently returned from Cote d’Ivoire, where he completed a coaching course.
Unfortunately, he won’t be putting to use the certificate obtained.