The Chief coach of Rivers United, Fatai Osho has decided to take a break from Football Coaching with effect from the next football season over health issue.
Osho whose glorious coaching career has seen him handle teams like Crown Ogbomoso, Remo Stars, Supreme Court FC, Kogi United, Enyimba International, and Rivers United among others recently jettison his initial idea to quit Rivers United a few weeks before the end of 2022/2023 Football Season.
Before he joined Rivers United to travel to Tanzania where the Pride of Rivers have an uphill task against Young Africans of Tanzania in a Confederation Cup second leg tie, Osho said: “It is not that I am leaving football coaching finally. I just want to take a season-long break to enable me to take good care of my health which is failing seriously”.
“Sometime in 2017, I had a serious challenge with my back waist, and the Doctors advised that I should not seat in a place for a very long time. But, I have been managing it and living on recommended drugs. As one is aging, the situation is getting severe, and I need to take time off to take good care of the ailments, and this will take over one full year. There is no way I will be in a Premiership Club, and will not travel for a distance of over five to seven hours, which will not give room for proper healing. So, I will need to take a season-long break, or worst still, move to a lower division club where the traveling distance will not be so far “.
The man popularly called” Sugar” for his brand of football remains optimistic that he will surely return to the game after his medical treatment. He however was not forthcoming on where he would be taking the medical treatment saying “If the finances are there, I will travel out of the country, but alternatively, I can also get a good hospital in the country where the ailments will be diagnosed and properly treated. I will surely be back” he concluded.
Fatai Osho was appointed as Remo Stars FC coach in 2018, he guided the team to her first NPFL season, but the team got relegated after the season, but Osho guided them back to the NPFL immediately after spending just one season. He later resigned from the club, when Remo Stars appointed former Plateau United Kennedy Boboye as the Technical consultant of the Team. He joined Enyimba International as the assistant coach of the people’s elephant.
When Usman Abdallah left Enyimba in the middle of the season, Osho was appointed as the interim coach of Enyimba International and he led the team up to the quarter-finals of the Confederation Cup before he decided to team up with Rivers United as the Chief Coach.
