Florence Omagbemi found love again at the age of 47 as the Nigeria's women natonal team legend walks down the alter in Warri, Delta State.
Omagbemi tied the nuptial knot, at the weekend as she said “I do” in the traditional way to her new husband, Ekiti State born Kehinde Richard Oluyemi, at the Nneoma Coliseum Event Palace in Warri on Saturday.
The former Nigeria internatinoal goes to the alter again 13 years after the passing of her first husband, Adams Onuja, an indigene of Kogi State in 2009, after a brief illness.
The well-attended ceremony witnessed the presence of women football players, coaches, family, friends and loved ones who sang, danced and toasted to the happiness of the former football star and coach.
Omagbemi, a four-time winner of the African Women Championship, had been grief stricken in the past having lost her foster son, Samson in a tragic way in June 2017 and six months later lost her father to the cold hands of death.
Having previously served as an assistant coach with the Falconets at the 2012 Fifa U20 Women's World Cup in Japan, Omagbemi accepted the task of leading the Super Falcons to the continental triumph in February 2016, filling the void left by Christopher Danjuma who led the team to a forgettable African Games in Brazzaville in 2015.
She is the first Africa woman to have won the Africa Women’s Cup of Nations as player and as a coach and guided the Super Falcons to win the 2016 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations trophy in Cameroon.
She was the mastermind behind Nigeria's Cameroon 2016 success and become the second African and one of three women to be shortlisted for the Best Fifa Women’s Coach 2017.
In a13 years illustrious active career, Omagbemi led the Falcons to claim the African title four times in row from 1998 to 2004 and made four outings at the Fifa Women's World Cup, crowning it off with a quarter-final spot at USA 1999.
