Wata gawarwaki ta taru a duniyar wasan ƙwallon ƙafa ta Nijeriya, inda tsohon golan ƙungiyar Green Eagles, Peter Fregene, ya rasu a shekaru 77. Labarin rasuwarsa ya zo ne daga wani tsohon ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na Nijeriya da aboki, Segun Odegbami, a ranar Lahadi.
Fregene ya rasu bayan ya yi jinya mai tsawo, inda ya kasance a cikin tallafin rayuwa na mako guda. Ya mutu a gurbin matar sa, Tina, da yara biyu daga cikin yaran sa. Odegbami ya bayyana cewa, “Dakika da suka gabata, Peter ‘Apo’ Fregene, OLY, tsohon golan ƙungiyar Green Eagles ta Nijeriya, wanda ya kasance a cikin tallafin rayuwa na mako guda, ya rasu ya hadu da halin gaba”.
Fregene ya wakilci Nijeriya a gasar Olympics ta shekarar 1968 a Mexico kuma ya taka rawa sosai a ƙungiyar ƙasa a shekarun 1960 da 70. An san shi da saurin aiki da ƙarfin jiki a tsakanin golan. An yi masa laqabi da ‘Apo’ saboda saurin aikinsa a golan.
Odegbami ya shukura waɗanda suka taya Fregene goyon baya a lokacin jinyarsa. Ya ce, “A madadin dukkan al’ummomin ƴan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na Nijeriya, masu wasan Olympics, masu wasan wasanni, iyalinsa, abokansa, magoya bayansa da wasu Nijeriya masu ƙarfin zuciya waɗanda suka taya shi goyon baya da addu’o’i da ikon halitta, suka kare shi har zuwa yau, ina ce shukran taɓatattun”.
