Rashidi Yekini was a Nigerian footballer who played as a striker.
His professional career, which spanned more than two decades, was mainly associated with Vitória de Setúbal inPortugal, but he also played in six other countries not including Nigeria.
Yekini scored 37 goals as a Nigerian international, and represented the nation in five major tournaments, including twoWorld Cups where he scored the country's first-ever goal in the competition. He was also named the African Footballer of the Year in 1993
The international star passed on in 2012, suffering from bipolar disorder, depression and some other undisclosed psychiatric condition. He left behind an aged mother who had nothing to live on despite her late son’s success.
Recently, the Senate President Nigeria extended a helping hand to the star’s mother. He rehabilitated her living conditions and almost failing petty business. Truly if each one can reach one, then each one can change one.
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