Former Shooting Stars of Ibadan player, Moses Otolorin, is dead, The Eagle Online has learnt.
Otolorin, who has been critically ill, gave up the ghost in the early hours of Mondayat his Ilorin hometown in Kwara State.
Late Otolorin died in his late 60s.
He is survived by a wife, children and grandchildren.
The late soccer star was a member of the IICC squad that brought the first continental laurel to Nigeria in 1976 after winning Cup Winners Cup alongside the likes of Samuel Ojebode, Philip Boamah, Segun Odegbami, Folohunso Gambari, Idowu Otubusen, Best Ogedegbe, Muda Lawal and Nathaniel Adewole among others..
He is known for his famous long throw-ins.
He also featured for the then Green Eagles, as the senior national football team was known.
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