Joe Erico, ex-Super Eagles assistant coach, dies at 72

Joe Erico, a former Super Eagles assistant coach, has passed away after a protracted illness.

TheCable was reliably informed by Mosunmola, wife of the former Nigerian goalkeeper trainer, that he breathed his last on Thursday morning after a three-day battle with the illness.

The Jogo Bonito Exponent, whose real name was Joseph Bassey Eric, died at the age of 72.

“He was ill for about three days and we took him to the hospital, he complained of body pain. He was okay and we came back home,” Mosunmola said.

“But just yesterday night, he started doing somehow and he later slept.

“I tried to wake him up this morning but he was stone dead.”

Erico was one of the assistants Super Eagles coaches to Amodu Shaibu at the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations in Mali.