Born March 5, 1938, in Modakeke, Osun State, Nigeria.
Adegboye Onigbinde is a Nigerian football coach, administrator and technocrat.
He has served as CAF and FIFA technical instructor.
He coached Nigeria’s national team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and previously he had handled the team between 1982 and 1984.
In 1984, he took Nigeria into the final match of the Africa Nations Cup.
Coach Onigbinde, the highly respected Nigerian soccer tactician took over the Nigerian national team after the sack of the coaching crew of Shuaibu Amodu following what was considered a disgraceful performance of the Super Eagles at the 2002 Africa Nations Cup. Chief Onigbinde took a team that consisted largely of young and inexperienced players to the year’s World Cup finals in South Korea/Japan.
According to Onigbinde himself, on BBC Sport Online, Adegboye is not one of his original names:
‘I dropped my baptismal name ‘Festus’ in 1960 through Nigeria’s Daily Times newspaper and have been answering [no ‘to’] Festus Onigbinde… I discovered Festus didn’t mean anything, so I changed to ‘Adegboye’, meaning ‘a child born to reclaim a chieftaincy title’.
Chief Adegboye Onigbinde is now 86 and still going strong.