Super Falcons coach, Florence Omagbemi has suffered the loss of her son who drowned in a pool.
This sad news comes just six months after the coach lost her dad, a retired civil servant who died in December last year.
According
to PulseNg, quoting Timi Ebikagboro, the media officer of the Nigeria
U-23 team, the 15-year-old died on Wednesday, June 14 alongside a
classmate in a swimming pool at Golden Tulip hotel in Effurun, Delta
State.
The tragic incident happened during an ‘after exam party’
which was organised by a teacher at Challenge International School,
Kolokolo Udu Road, Warri.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Thursday, June 15 announced the death of Omagbemi’s son, Samson.
“Our
prayers are with @NGSuper_Falcons Head Coach, Florence Omagbemi who
lost her son, Samson, on Wednesday. May his soul rest in peace,” then
NFF said on Twitter.
The 42-year-old coach rushed to
Warri immediately for the funeral just after returning from Cameroon
where she led the Super Falcons to win the 2016 Africa Women’s Cup of
Nations (AWCON).
With that win, she became the first person to win the AWCON as a player and a coach.
Samson
is Omagbemi’s son from a previous relationship before she got married
to her husband who died in 2009 after a brief illness while she was away
in the United States.
She didn’t have any child with her late husband although she is the parent to the son of her late elder sister.