The goalkeeper of Nigeria at the 1994 and 1998 World Cup, Peter Roya died on Thursday at the age of 61 from the disease, according to the fact that the football association announced.
The goalkeeper, who was known as Dodomin, was among the team, which gave Nigeria the second title in the African Nations Cup in 1994 in Tunisia.
The Nigerian Federation wrote in a post on the website “X”: “We are the death of the legendary goalkeeper of Nigeria Peter Rovey, a giant in Nigerian football and the 1994 African nations.”
The Nigerian Federation stated that Roy “died in Lagos after a period of illness”, while his secretary Mohamed Sanussi said that his death was “really shocking”.
Rovay defended the colors of many Nigerian clubs before moving to Benin, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.
Rovay played 65 games in the flowers of the Nigerian team from 1983 to 1998.
