‘Thunder’ Balogun’s legacy must not die – Son
Kayode recalled, “while in England, the former Premier of Western Nigeria Chief Obafemi Awolowo persuaded my father to return and help develop the game in the region.
BY JACOB AJOM It’s exactly 54 years today that one of Nigeria’s greatest footballers, Teslim ‘Thunder’ Balogun passed on in his sleep in Ibadan, western Nigeria (now Oyo state).
Engineer Olamide Balogun, one of the family’s seven children remembers his father as a loving family man.
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