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Tesilimi Olawale Ayinde “Teslim” Balogun was a Nigerian football player and coach. Balogun played at both professional and international levels as a striker, before becoming Africa’s first qualified professional football coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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