Samuel Okwaraji

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Samuel Okwaraji
Personal information
Full name	Samuel Sochukwuma Okwaraji
Date of birth	1964
Place of birth	Orlu, Nigeria
Date of death	August 12, 1989
Place of death	Lagos, Nigeria
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	Dinamo Zagreb VfB Stuttgart SSV Ulm
National team
	Nigeria	0- (-)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Samuel Sochukwuma Okwaraji (1964 - August 12, 1989) was a professional footballer who played internationally for Nigeria. Born in Umudioka in Orlu LGA IMO STATE, Okwaraji had a career in Europe which included playing for Dinamo Zagreb, VfB Stuttgart and SSV Ulm. In his short stay with Dinamo Zagreb Samuel scored 3 goals in a friendly game vs NK Budućnost Hodošan. The game was played on 30.04.1986. and Dinamo Zagreb won 12:0.

Okwaraji collapsed ten minutes from the end of a World Cup Qualifier against Angola in Lagos and died from congestive heart failure. An autopsy showed that the 24-year-old had an enlarged heart and high blood pressure. The sudden death was similar to that of Marc-Vivien Foé 14 years later.

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