{"id":7653,"date":"2017-01-12T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7653"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:58:29","slug":"obi-okoye-francis","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obi-okoye-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"OBI, Okoye Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>football coach, born December 10 1934, Ihiala, Anambra State; married, seven children; Education: St. Mary&#8217;s Teachers&#8217; Training College, Azara, Owerri, 1950-54; Career: Appointed Di rector ofSports; Chief Football Coach\/Tech nical Adviser ofAnambra State Sports Coun cil, Enugu, 1966-84; ChiefFootball Coach, Rangers International FC, Enugu, 1978; Zonal Football Coach for Onitsha, Enugu; MorningStar FC-Onitsha, 1984-87;Premier Breweries, FC-Onitsha, 1988-90; AsesaWarriorsFC-Awka,1992-93;AnambraState Junior Academicals, 1980; Coach\/Player, Captain, Aba Giant Killers, ZI, 1952-62; Coach \/Player, Nigeria Airways (WAAC) FC Ikeja, Lagos, 1963-66; Player\/Former East ern Region&#8217;Selected XI, 1957-59; Player\/ Nigeria National Team XI, Red Devils, 1958- 62; Arsenal FC, Charlton Athletic Club, Westham United Football Club; Watford City Football Club; Queens Park Rangers Foot ball Club; Wrexham Association Football Club; Swansea City Advanced Football Club; Crystal Palace Football club; Tottenham Hotspurs&#038;ATH Co. Chelsea Football Club; member, Nigeria Football Coaches Associa tion; member, Ex-International Football Players Association; Zonal Representative Sports Welfare Association of Nigeria; Awards: National NFA Bourvita Award for Contributions to Nigeria Football; Zonal Odafa Award for Contributions to Onitsha Football; Sports Writer, Football Coaching\/ Clubs Consultancy Services; NFA Professional Football League Match Commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[547],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7653","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}