The Nigerian football scene is mourning following the death of Nigerian Women Football League side Bayelsa Queens head coach Domo Okara,Â
The American-trained tactician Domo Okara, who led the Yenagoa side to a bronze medal triumph at the CAF Women’s Champions League in 2022 in Morocco passed away in the early hours of Saturday, June 8, 2024, at the age of 47 with the cause of his death a brief illness, and was pronounced dead by medical Experts.
The development has caused the Nigeria women’s football league especially those who admired his coaching style, to mourn his exit with eulogies.
They described the deceased as one of the best football tacticians the country has produced, likening him to the late Abdullah Bebe, who was instrumental to the rise of Kwara United in Ilorin.
The deceased guided Bayelsa Queens to the 2023 Federation Cup triumph, a third-place finish in the 2023-2024 Nigeria Women’s Football League Premiership Super Six recently rounded off in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, and CAF Women’s Champions League third place in 2022.
News of his passing broke on the same day the remains of a notable Bayelsa-born football administrator, Anthony Ogola, were laid to rest in Yenagoa.
May his Soul Rest in Peace.
