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Ex-international, John Ene Okon, is dead. Okon, who died in a hospital in Calabar, Cross River State on Tuesday, was said to have been suffering from liver problem.
He would have clocked 47 the same day he died.
John Okon passed on in the early hours of this Tuesday, March 15, 2016; he had been diagnosed with a liver problem and he had been in hospital for sometime now until he passed away at a Calabar hospital around 2.00am and ironically, it happened to be his birthday.
John Ene Okon was a member of the Nigerian U-20 team, the Flying Eagles, to the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile in 1987. He was also a member of the Super Eagles team that claimed the bronze in the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations hosted by Senegal.
After he retired as a footballer, Okon, known as ‘Oworowo’ among his colleagues, went into coaching and he handled teams like Calabar Rovers, BCC Lions, Sharks and Julius Berger FC of Lagos.
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