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In 1963, a young man arrived Holy Cross Umuawulu to begin his secondary education. Emmanuel Okala was 12 when his goalkeeping career began. Born in May 1951, his contemporaries from then remember him as a rather spindly figure whose height took him to the lower reaches of the heavens. Even as a new arrival at the beginning of his High School journey at the time, those who beheld him acknowledged that they were in the presence of a generational phenomenon.
That story of hope was not confined to the soccer pitch. The Rangers Football Club, for which both Christian Chukwu and Emmanuel Okala were leading super-stars, embodied the hopes of the people of South-East Nigeria as they emerged from the ruins of an utterly destructive civil war at the beginning of 1970, bereft of both capital and dignity.by a leading sports publication as “a classic dribbler” who could “do anything with the ball.
At the peak of their powers, these men could have played for nearly any team in the world. At the time, however, the sport was poorly organised in Nigeria; management was non-existent; football administration was poor; attention to the wellbeing of the athletes was haphazard at best; and sports science was only just beginning to receive attention globally. Neither fully professional nor indeed amateur, their careers were spent in a vocational no-man’s-land.
To address this neglect and also preserve the sporting and civic legacies of the original Enugu Rangers International, it has become necessary to establish the Enugu Rangers Veterans Trust.
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