A 29-year-old man, Clement Oluyide has slumped and died on the Ataoja School of Science, Osogbo football pitch during the 5th Isiaka Adeleke Memorial Cup final tournament.
Incidentally, Oluyide, an Ikinyinwa-Ijesa born football star died on his birthday, Thursday , January 16, 2025, trying to win laurel to celebrate his 29th birthday ceremony.
Oluyide, a midfielder whose team, Ilesa West Football Team, was playing against Ejigbo Local Government Team, slumped on the field while his team was preparing to take a free kick.
Like the legendary late Samuel Okwaraji, the young footballer could not be revived after he suddenly collapsed on the field.
The demise of Oluyide was confirmed in a statement on Thursday by the Public Relations Officer of the Osun Police Command, Yemisi Olawoyin Opalola.
Opalola stated that Oluyide slumped on the pitch of Ataoja School of Science and rushed to Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo where he was confirmed dead.
She added that his remains were deposited at the hospital morgue.
The shocking incident has thrown Ikinyinwa-Ijesa into mourning as all public activities were suspended in honour of the departed illustrious son of the community.
Meanwhile, the organisers of the late Otunba Isiaka Adeleke Memorial Cup, an annual grassroot football competition put in place in memory of the first civilian governor of Osun State, have commiserated with the family of the player who died on the final day of the competition.
Oladele Bamiji, the chairman, organizing committee of the tournament, said the competition had always taken the wellbeing of players as topmost priority, expressing sadness that all efforts to rescue Oluyide “after he suddenly slumped on the pitch, at about 84th minute of the 3rd place match between Ilesa West Local Government and Ejigbo Local Government football teams, proved abortive.”
“He was promptly attended to by the medical team on ground at the venue of the match, after which he was rushed in the ambulance stationed at the match venue to the nearby Uniosun Teaching Hospital where he was declared dead by the hospital’s medical doctors.
“Maicon, as popularly called by his teammates, was one of the leading lights at the just ended edition of the competition and we are too devastated to lose such a promising talent.”
