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IndyCar champion Dan Wheldon is the British pilot, died in a crash at the last race in Las Vegas. Dan Wheldon, who moved to america from his native England with about winning the Indianapolis 500 and went on to twice prevail in the famed race, died Sunday following a massive, fiery wreck that involved 15 cars at the Las Vegas Indy 300.

Mr. Wheldon, 33, was one of the most popular IndyCar Series drivers.

He called the Indy 500 “the biggest sporting event in the world,” and his second and final victory there came in most unexpected fashion. Trailing rookie JR Hildebrand with one turn remaining, Mr. Wheldon was resigned to finishing second for the third consecutive year.
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Diego Maradona and his deft left foot have struck again, but this time the former Argentina great had to apologize for it.

The sign was delivered to the Argentinian icon by his daughters having a special message from his grandson.
So when the supporter kept moving it, Maradona lost his rag and lashed out.
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My School Sport: Paralympic gold medallist Danielle Brown hits the target

Archer Danielle Brown, 23, won Paralympic gold in Beijing and gold as a member of the able–bodied team at the Commonwealth Games.

Where did you go to school and was sport an important part of life?

South Craven School in Cross Hills, North Yorkshire. PE was my favourite lesson before I was disabled. I’m not saying I was good at it, but I loved it.

My parents are very active and all our holidays were spent in the Lakes, walking and cycling. I ran cross-country, and played hockey and netball a few times for the school.

What happened?

From the age of 11, when I first started running, my feet hurt afterwards. I wasn’t diagnosed with Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome [Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy] until I was 16.

(BBC) -Paralympic archer Danielle Brown aims to go full time: Paralympic archery champion Danielle Brown is hoping that a move to full-time training next year will help her retain her crown at the 2012 Games.

The University of Leicester law student will compete her studies in the summer and take up the bow full time as she bids to retain her title in London.

“It’s been tough trying to balance the demands of university and shooting,” she told BBC Sport.

“But once I finish my degree, the hard work towards London will really start.”

The 21-year-old from Yorkshire went to Beijing as the youngest member of the GB archery squad and came home with a gold medal in the compound event.

She suffers from a condition called reflex sympathetic dystrophy which results in chronic pain in her feet, so she shoots propped on a stool.

Her success continued this year as she retained her world individual compound title and also won the team title with Pippa Britton and Mel Clarke in the Czech Republic.

She was also Britain’s sole archery representative at the World University Games in Belgrade, just missing out on a place in the quarter-finals against able-bodied rivals.

“I went to the Worlds not shooting as well as I had been when I went to Beijing. I hoped to medal but I wasn’t as confident as I was before the Paralympics,” said Brown.

“I learned a lot from Beijing and although physically I wasn’t as good a shape, I was a lot stronger mentally and that helped me a lot.

“I spent much of the whole summer playing catch-up because I had to take so much time out because of my exams.

“The amount you have to learn for law takes up a lot of your time and obviously shooting is also time consuming and trying to balance the two, especially during exam time, was very demanding.

“I’m now in my third year and I’ve picked two subjects which are mainly coursework-based so I will just have two exams at the end so hopefully that means I can do a bit more training and spread it out across the year a bit better.”

Brown’s studies have also put paid to any hopes she may have had of competing in next year’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi and she was only able to get two of the three qualifying scores she needed to be in with a chance of selection.

But despite that disappointment, Brown has received plenty of accolades, was nominated for the disability award at the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year awards and also won the top female honour at the recent British Wheelchair Sports Awards.

“It’s amazing – the calibre of Paralympic athletes is so high and to have been recognised in a relatively low profile sport is really great,” she said.

“I think winning gold has helped raise the profile at the sport but at the end of it, I love what I do and I love to compete and it means I want to go and train even if the weather is bad.

“Switching to full-time training will give me two years of preparation ahead of London. I hope that helps to bring me on to another level.

“I’m excited about the prospect of competing in front of a home crowd in 2012 and defending my title.

“I also want to continue to shoot against able-bodied competitors, because I think the more experience I get against them, the better Paralympic athlete I will be.”

Rebecca Adlington Biography Video and Pictures: Rebecca (Becky) Adlington, OBE, (born 17 February 1989) is a British freestyle swimmer. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in the 400 m and 800 m, breaking the 19 year old world record of Janet Evans in the 800 m final. Adlington is Britain’s first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908 and Great Britain’s most successful Olympic swimmer in 100 years.

Adlington was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where she attended The Brunts School.

She started swimming with Sherwood Colliery Swimming Club, and was selected for the Nottinghamshire County Swim Squad (Nova Centurion) where she currently trains. She still swims in local swimming leagues for Nottingham Leander Swimming Club, taking part in the National Speedo ‘B’ Final in May 2010.

Adlington’s great uncle is former Derby County goalkeeper Terry Adlington.

Adlington represented Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Olympics, competing in the 400 m and 800 m freestyle swimming events. She was also scheduled to swim in the 4×200 m freestyle relay but was rested in the heat and the team failed to qualify for the final. In the heats of the 400 m freestyle, she broke the Commonwealth record with a time of 4:02.24.

On 11 August 2008 she won an Olympic gold medal in the same event, with a time of 4:03.22, beating Katie Hoff of the United States in the last 20 m.

She was the first woman to win swimming gold for Great Britain since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960.

She was the first British swimmer to win more than one gold medal at a single Olympic Games since Henry Taylor won three in 1908.

In 2009 Adlington admitted she suffered with the expectation placed on her ahead of the World Swimming Championships in Rome and although she swam a personal best she was only able to win bronze in the 400m freestyle. She added a second bronze in the 4 x 200m freestyle. In her favourite event, the 800m freestyle she was shut out of the medals in fourth.

In 2010 Adlington won the 400m freestyle at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest but again failed to win a medal in her 800m freestyle as she faded to seventh.

She won bronze as part of the 4 x 200m freestyle relay team. At the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi she won a “bonus” bronze medal in the 200m freestyle and was part of the English record setting 4 x 200m freestyle relay team that also won bronze. In the 800m freestyle Adlington led from start to finish to win her first Commonwealth Games gold medal. In the 400m freestyle Adlington won comfortably to earn a second gold medal and repeat her Olympic double. She ended the season ranked 2 at 400m freestyle and 1 at 800m freestyle.

Records Set: Adlington set a new British, Commonwealth, European and Olympic record of 8:18.06 in the preliminary heats of the women’s 800 metre freestyle on 14 August 2008. She went on to win the 800 m Olympic freestyle final on 16 August 2008 in a world record time of 8:14.10, her second gold of the tournament, a full six seconds ahead of the silver medalist, and two seconds ahead of the former world record which had been set by Janet Evans when Adlington was 6 months old. At the time, this was swimming’s longest standing world record.

On 14 December 2008, she was voted third in the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

Rebecca Adlington: The champion swimmer on why she keeps her gold medals in a cupboard, and her love of a good jigsaw puzzle

You’ve just won the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle at the British Championships. It’s all going rather well at the moment, isn’t it? I definitely can’t complain. I was really pleased with this week. My times have been very solid as well, so I’m very happy. I’m just trying to work hard and put in some good races and it paid off. I raced very strongly and I was pleased with my performances.

Do the other competitors look a bit downhearted when they see you lining up next to them? Should you not have a hand tied behind your back as a handicap? Definitely not!

Do you have a mantelpiece big enough to keep all your medals on? I don’t really keep them anywhere, to be honest. They’re just randomly spread out all over the place. Some are at my parents’ house, I’ve got some of them, and some are in the back of the cupboard.

Surely you keep your stash of Olympic medals somewhere special? [Casually] Actually, all the Olympic ones are in a shoe-bag in the cupboard.

Small Talk keeps a stash of something else in the back of his cupboard. Do you ever get bored of winning? [As if answering the most idiotic question ever asked] Erm … no. I’m just a competitive person in general. I’m just very motivated, I never know what to say when people ask me how I get myself going. I just go. That’s just how it is. I always want to do well, motivation has never been an issue for me.

You don’t have the inspirational sayings of Confucius printed on your bedroom wall, then? No, no, no! I don’t like stuff like that at all. That’s so cheesy.

Small Talk has often wondered something: what’s the point of the butterfly stroke? Is it just pointlessly hard? [After a small but telling pause] … It’s not pointless but, erm, it is hard. It’s really hard, in fact. If you’re in a public pool, then it’s probably best not to go anywhere near ‘fly. Don’t even attempt it. Let it alone. Leave it be. Don’t do ‘fly, that’s my advice.

Do you feel any pressure ahead of the Olympics in London? Not really, I’m excited more than anything. The swimming qualifying event is next year, so I still don’t know if I’ll be going. But even if I’m not, as a British person, it’s just so exciting to have the Olympics here. I’ll be trying to compete in any event I can qualify for, I’m not fussy.

Even the ‘fly? Ah – well, maybe not that one. I definitely wouldn’t qualify at the ‘fly. I’ll leave that to other people.

Has your life changed dramatically since the 2008 Olympics? It hasn’t really. Everyone seems to think I’m some millionaire now who is completely different. But I’m in exactly the same swimming squad, have exactly the same friends and have the same daily routine. The only thing that’s changed is that a few people ask me for an autograph these days.

Bet you didn’t have a phone filled with the numbers of the rich and famous before 2008, though. Who’s the most famous person in your mobile now? Chris Hoy probably. I’ve also got Jason Manford in there too.

Let’s veer hastily away from asking if Jason Manford has ever texted you late at night. You do have a swimming pool named after you now, though. That must have changed things a bit. It was so nice of them to do that because it was the pool I learned to swim in. That was where it all started for me, so it was a really big thing when they named it after me. The pool’s amazing now too. I wish it had always been like that.

You also had the Mansfield branch of Yates’ Wine Lodge named after you. There’s no higher compliment, surely. [Outraged] It was the most silly thing ever! All they did was put a banner outside. They didn’t even ask. I’ve never even been in there and I can’t imagine I ever will.

A wise move. How boring is swimming training? Or do you have some sort of whizzy waterproof iPod to listen to? I actually really enjoy training. There are 20-25 of us in our squad and we all have a real laugh together. I wouldn’t want any distractions like music – I have to concentrate and count, so music would get in the way.

What sort of music would you listen to if you did have a whizzy waterproof iPod and didn’t have to concentrate and count? Anything apart from metal and heavy rock [said with utter disgust]. Anything that’s on Radio 1 will do – pop, indie, mainstream sort of stuff.

So you’re not a big Swedish thrash fan? [Shuddering] I’m very sorry, Small Talk, but that’s not really my kind of thing.

In Small Talk’s experience, the sort of people who don’t like Swedish thrash also tend to be the sort of people who are into such things as jigsaws … I’m a massive jigsaw fan! I love jigsaws.

Well, there you go. What’s your jigsaw technique? [Excitedly] I lay all the pieces out one by one. Then I start on the edges before I group all the colours together. But I’m very specific about how I group colours: there will be one pile for the colours in the middle and others for the different colours in the rest of the jigsaw. I take it quite seriously. I don’t like other people getting involved at all. In fact, I get angry if people do – I have to do it my way.

Sounds terrifying. What’s the most difficult jigsaw you’ve ever put together? [Really warming to the theme] I do 1,000-piece ones generally because they fit on my dining room table. But for my birthday, my friends bought me a double-sided jigsaw. One side was a jigsaw of a jigsaw and it was all white. The other was a load of mental arithmetic questions that you had to answer. It was so difficult that it took us three hours.

Three hours! That’s some impressive jigsaw speed. Oh yeah, I was on it. I am always on it when it comes to jigsaws.

Since we now know who would win in a fight between a lion and a tiger, we’ll make use of your notorious shoe obsession to determine the winner of Jimmy Choo v Christian Louboutin. Louboutin everytime. Christian Louboutin is amazing.

Do you ever get much opportunity to wear his shoes, or is it all flip-flops and verruca socks around the pool? I don’t get that much of a chance, so I tend to walk around my house in them. I just love shoes, they’re a chance to be girly.

Small Talk has an image of you wandering around your front room in £1,000 shoes doing a jigsaw puzzle of an evening. Yeah! That would be a great night. That would be the perfect evening.

Would you watch a film at all? Maybe – anything but a scary movie. I can’t deal with them as I hate the feeling of being scared afterwards. I get paranoid that someone is going to leap out of my cupboard and kill me.

Surely you’d hear someone in the cupboard from the jangle of medals inside? That’s a good idea, I could make a booby trap out of the medals. It would be like Home Alone but with Olympic medals.

The perfect use for them. You were born in Mansfield and Small Talk knows a fascinating fact about Mansfield. The longest A road in the country, the A38, ends there. Do you know anything more fascinating about Mansfield than that? No.

Well, that’s probably a good place to leave this then. It probably is, thanks Small Talk.

Tom Bryant – guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 March 2011 00.06 GMT

Here’s a clip of Holly Madison showing us how to work our muscles. I think she got the job done. Back to work..

Who is Holly Madison: Holly Madison (born December 23, 1978 ) is an American model and television personality, best known for appearing as one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends on the reality television series The Girls Next Door. Although not a Playboy Playmate, she has appeared in nude pictorials with her Girls Next Door costars, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson. In 2009, she appeared as a contestant on the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars.

In the past, Madison has stated that she wanted to marry Hefner and have his children. During an interview at the Playmate of the Year luncheon in May 2008, Hefner stated, “I love Holly very much and I think we’re going to be together the rest of my life, but marriage isn’t part of my puzzle. It’s not a personal thing; I just haven’t had much luck with marriages.”

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Recieves Technical Foul And Swears At NBA Official: Los Angeles Lakers star player Kobe Bryant in San Antonio match referee was fined for spamming.

U.S. National Basketball League (NBA) teams, the Los Angeles Lakers star player Kobe Bryant in San Antonio spamming match referee awarded the penalty on the grounds of 100 thousand dollars.

NBA management, Lakers 102-93 the previous day he won the match referee played technical foul was given the penalty of $ 100 thousand f..k Bryant said.

President of the NBA, David Stern, who offend homosexuals Bryant stated that a curse,”words that can not be accepted and tolerated in these words gösterilemeyeceğini”he said.

Bryant also said in a statement, saying these words I said nervously in a warm moment,”These words reflect my feelings against the gay community,”he said and unsaid in order to hurt anyone.

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USC Student Breaks Down Kobe Bryant’s Gay Slur:The 2010-11 NBA season has featured many ugly moments for the up-and-down Lakers. But the insult aimed last night at referee Bennie Adams by Kobe Bryant after a technical foul call is one of the ugliest, an apparent homophobic slur (“f*cking f*gg*t”) caught on national TV by TNT cameras:

At this early stage, the most thoughtful take on Bryant’s behavior comes from USC student John Krolik via NBC’s ProBasketballTalk.com. He does a great job of delving past the easy, obvious outrage:

Does the word that Kobe used get used by professional athletes almost every day, in every locker room, without any cameras or tape recorders catching it? Absolutely. In fact, during a playoff game a few seasons ago, Kevin Garnett was actually caught screaming the exact same thing that Kobe screamed…

I’m not calling for Bryant’s head… What I would like is for some good to come out of this being caught on tape… Kobe has an opportunity to clear up his feelings about homosexuals and whether or not he believes the word he used is or is not acceptable language. I hope he takes advantage of it, and that the NBA becomes just a bit more welcoming than it would have been otherwise.

Kobe Bean Bryant (born August 23, 1978) is an American professional basketball player who plays shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Bryant enjoyed a successful high school basketball career at Lower Merion High School, where he was recognized as the top high school basketball player in the country.

He decided to declare his eligibility for the NBA Draft upon graduation, and was selected with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets, then traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. As a rookie, Bryant earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.

Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002. A heated feud between the duo and a loss in the 2004 NBA Finals led to O’Neal’s departure following the 2003–04 season. In 2003, Bryant was accused of sexual assault after having sex with a hotel employee in Edwards, Colorado. In September 2004, prosecutors dropped the case after his accuser refused to testify, and Bryant had to rebuild his image while becoming the cornerstone of the Lakers.

He led the NBA in scoring during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons, setting numerous scoring records in the process.

In 2006, Bryant scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second most points scored in a single game in NBA history, second only to Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 point performance in 1962. In the 2007–08 season, he was awarded the regular season’s Most Valuable Player Award (MVP). After losing in the 2008 NBA Finals, Bryant led the Lakers to two consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010 and was named NBA Finals MVP on both occasions.

As of March 2011, Bryant ranks fourth and sixth on the league’s all-time post-season scoring and all-time regular season scoring lists, respectively. He is also the all-time leading scorer in Lakers franchise history. Since his second year in the league, Bryant has started in every NBA All-Star Game that has been held with thirteen All-Star appearances, winning the All-Star MVP Award four times (2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011). He is a twelve-time member of the All-NBA team and ten-time All-Defensive team, and is the youngest player ever to receive defensive honors. At the 2008 Olympics, he won a gold medal as a member of the USA national team. In 2009, Sporting News and TNT named Bryant the NBA player of the 2000s decade.

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2010–11 season: The Lakers started the 2010–11 season by winning their first eight games. In his ninth game of the season, playing against the Denver Nuggets, Bryant became the youngest player in NBA history to reach 26,000 career points. Bryant also recorded his first triple double since January 21, 2009. On January 30 against the Celtics, he become the youngest player to score 27,000 points. On February 1, 2011, Bryant became one of seven players with at least 25,000 points, 5,000 rebounds and 5,000 assists. In Boston on February 10, Bryant scored 20 of his 23 points in the second half as the Lakers rallied from an early 15-point deficit for a 92–86 win over the Celtics. It was the Lakers’ first victory of the season against one of the league’s top four teams, as they entered the game 0–5 in previous matchups and had been outscored by an average of 11 points. Bryant, selected to his 13th straight All-Star game after becoming the leading vote-getter, had 37 points, 14 rebounds, and three steals in the 2011 All-Star Game and won his fourth All-Star MVP, tying Hall of Famer Bob Pettit for the most All-Star MVP awards.

During the season, Bryant moved from 12th to 6th place on the NBA all-time career scoring list, passing John Havlicek, Dominique Wilkins, Oscar Robertson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Elvin Hayes, and Moses Malone.

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Even more surprisingly so, it seems Ms. Alvarez severed ties with The Ramos after growing weary of the Real Madrid defender’s possessiveness. Although neither of the two ever publicly acknowledged their relationship, they were rumoured to be shacking up together in his La Moraleja casa.

To our finest gold-shorted specimen, Sergio: we’re sorry to hear about your break up. This must be a difficult time for you and your wardrobe. Let us know when the two of you are ready to hear about what a raging bish we thought Lara was.

Real Madrid’s star footballer Sergio Ramos, sports announcer, Lara Alvarez allegedly lived in love.

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Texas’ Hamilton breaks right arm, out 6-8 weeks: Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton is expected to miss six to eight weeks after breaking his right arm on a headfirst dive into home plate Tuesday, a dash the AL MVP later called “stupid.”

Hamilton tried to score from third on a foul pop-up near the Detroit dugout in the first inning. Third baseman Brandon Inge and catcher Victor Martinez both chased the ball, leaving the plate unprotected.

Inge made the catch, then tossed the ball to Martinez, who got back in time to tag Hamilton.

“It was a stupid play,” Hamilton said. “The whole time the ball was in the air, the coach was yelling, ‘Go, there’s no one at home,’ and I was thinking, ‘I don’t want to do this, something is going to happen.’

“But I listened to my coach,” he said, referring to third-base coach Dave Anderson. “It was way too aggressive. Maybe if they had both been closer to me, but they had a perfect angle to cut me off, and the only way to avoid a tag in that situation is to go headfirst.”

Rangers general manager Jon Daniels defended Anderson’s decision to send Hamilton.

“We play an aggressive style of baseball,” he said. “The chances of getting hurt on that play are minimal.”

The Rangers said Hamilton has a non-displaced fracture of the humerus bone at the top of his arm, just below the shoulder. He isn’t expected to swing a bat for a month.

Furcal out: The Dodgers placed shortstop Rafael Furcal on the 15-day disabled list after he broke his left thumb while sliding into third base on a steal in the fifth inning of L.A.’s 6-1 win over the Giants on Monday night. Furcal is expected to miss four to six weeks. The Dodgers recalled rookie infielder Ivan De Jesus from Triple-A Albuquerque.

Briefly: The Nationals put third baseman Ryan Zimmerman on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Sunday, with a strained abdominal muscle and recalled catcher Jesus Flores from Triple-A Syracuse. … Houston manager Brad Mills had to sit out Tuesday’s game against the Cubs as MLB suspended him for his ejection from Sunday’s game against Florida. Reliever Aneury Rodriguez was suspended for three games, but is appealing his suspension and may play until there is a ruling on the appeal. Mills and Rodriguez also were fined undisclosed amounts. … Seattle catcher Adam Moore is expected to miss the rest of the season after knee surgery Tuesday.

Rangers’ Josh Hamilton out 6-8 weeks with broken arm: Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton broke his right arm diving headfirst into home plate Tuesday night and is expected to miss 6-8 weeks.

Hamilton took off after Adrian Beltre‘s foul popup near the Tigers dugout, as catcher Victor Martinez had left home plate to pursue the ball along with third baseman Brandon Inge.

“It was a stupid play,” Hamilton said. “The whole time the ball was in the air, the coach [Dave Anderson] was yelling, ‘Go, there’s no one at home,’ and I was thinking, ‘I don’t want to do this, something is going to happen.’ But I listened to my coach.

“It was way too aggressive. Maybe if they had both been closer to me, but they had a perfect angle to cut me off, and the only way to avoid a tag in that situation is to go head first.”

Roto Roundup: Dan Haren Throws Complete Game One Hitter, Josh Hamilton Out 6-8 Weeks, Rafael Furcal Out 4-6 Weeks: Who will be the next fantasy star to go down with a significant injury? Yesterday, we learned that Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton broke his upper arm taking a headfirst slide into homeplate. He will be out for 6-8 weeks and will be replaced on the Rangers roster by former prospect Chris Davis. David Murphy is expected to get the majority of the at bats in Hamilton’s absence. I wrote about Murphy in one of my fantasy sleeper articles this offseason, and had this to say about Murphy: Ron Shander projects Murphy to hit .282-.349-.450 with 15 HRs, 67 RBIs and 12 SBs this year. If you consider the fact that Josh Hamilton and Nelson Cruz have proved to be injury prone, Murphy could outperform his projections with more ABs in 2011.

Uchenna Kizito Okafor, often shortened to Uche Okafor (8 August 1967 – 6 January 2011) was a football defender who played 34 international matches for Nigeria.

Okafor’s club career took him to many countries before he settled in the USA. Okafor was drafted to Kansas City Wizards in the 9th round of the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft, and played there for five seasons before retiring after the 2000 season.

Okafor played every match when Nigeria won the 1994 Arican Cup of Nations, but sustained an ankle injury shortly thereafter. He was part of the squad to the 1994 World Cup but did not get any playing time. He played 1 out of their 4 games in the 1998 World Cup, though, as well as at the 1988 Olympics.

Okafor coached for the Associated Soccer Group, a member of the North Texas Soccer Association. He was head coach for the 91 Gold Central boys team and the 93 HP Central boys team who play in the Plano Premier Select Soccer league.

Other notable professional footballers who coach for ASG are Dave Dir, Zequinha, Oscar Pareja, and Bobby Rhine.

Death: Okafor’s body was discovered by his wife shortly after he returned home from dropping off his daughter in school. It was ruled a suicide. Okafor’s body was discovered Thursday afternoon by his wife in their house in Little Elm, a town about 30 miles northwest of Dallas. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday that he hanged himself in an upstairs hallway…

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Uche Okafor Dies: Ex-Nigerian Soccer Player Found Dead In Texas

Uche Okafor, a defender on two Nigerian World Cup teams and a stalwart player for the Kansas City Wizards in the U.S., committed suicide this week at his Dallas-area home, authorities said Friday. He was 43.

Okafor’s body was discovered Thursday afternoon by his wife in their house in Little Elm, a town about 30 miles northwest of Dallas, Detective Oscar Hinojosa said. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday that he hanged himself in an upstairs hallway.

A friend who could not reach Okafor called Ifeyinwa Okafor, the former star’s wife, police said.

“She was at work and she came home and found him,” Hinojosa said.

Okafor played on the 1994 Super Eagles team that won the African Cup of Nations.

Nigeria reached the second round of the World Cup that year and again in 1998, with Okafor on the team both times. He didn’t play in 1994 and played in one match in the first round in 1998, a 3-1 loss to Paraguay after they had beaten Spain and Bulgaria. He didn’t play in the second-round loss to Denmark

“We are totally shocked by the news. Uche Okafor was a great player who represented his country at the highest level,” said Musa Amadu, acting secretary general of the Nigerian Football Federation.

Okafor was with the Wizards from 1996 to 2000, playing in 119 regular-season games and seven Major League Soccer playoff games. His professional finale came on Oct. 15, 2000, when Kansas City beat the Chicago Fire for its only MLS Cup championship.

When Okafor retired before the 2001 season, he was one of only three Kansas City players to have competed every season since the Wizards’ inception in 1996, the team said.