Daniel Owefin Amokachi was born in Kaduna on 30 December 1972, which makes him 53 as of 10 November 2026. He won the Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria in 1994, the FA Cup with Everton in 1995 and Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996. This page replaces earlier versions and drops the car, house and private jet claims that nobody has confirmed since.
| Born | 30 December 1972, Kaduna |
| Nickname | The Bull |
| Clubs | Ranchers Bees, Club Brugge, Everton, Beşiktaş |
| Nigeria | 44 caps and 13 goals, 1990 to 1999 |
| Honours | 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, 1995 FA Cup, 1996 Olympic gold |
| Latest roles | 22Bet Pan-African brand ambassador from August 2026; Lobi Stars technical adviser until February 2025 |
| Wife | Nadia, married since the mid-1990s |
| Net worth | No verified figure |
Daniel Amokachi's tribe and family background
Amokachi has not named his tribe in anything we could find. It is not publicly confirmed.
The Mail & Guardian reported in 2019 that his parents were Tiv and Idoma, originally from Benue State, and that he grew up in Kaduna as the son of a military man who died in August 2016. That is a press account. Treat it as reported. No public record names his mother.
Career in numbers
The table below is our own compilation of the league appearances and goals listed for his three European clubs. His Ranchers Bees spell in 1989 and 1990 has no recorded statistics. After Beşiktaş came short spells in the United States and Asia. Wikipedia extends the Beşiktaş years to 2000; the table uses 1999.
| Club | Years | League games | League goals | Goals per game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club Brugge | 1990 to 1994 | 81 | 35 | 0.43 |
| Everton | 1994 to 1996 | 43 | 10 | 0.23 |
| Beşiktaş | 1996 to 1999 | 77 | 18 | 0.23 |
| Total | 1990 to 1999 | 201 | 63 | 0.31 |
Belgium was the peak. He scored nearly twice as often for Club Brugge as at either later club, and those two later rates match to the second decimal place. Of his goal for Club Brugge against CSKA Moscow on 25 November 1992, a 1-0 win, he says it was “the very first goal in the history of the Champions League”. We could not verify the claim of a first Champions League goal.
Everton paid about £3 million in August 1994. He came off the bench in the 1995 FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur and scored twice. In the final against Manchester United, a win, he replaced Paul Rideout in the second half.
For Nigeria he played all five games of the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, starting each one alongside Rashidi Yekini. Our 1994 squad table has the full list. Atlanta was different. He wore number eight in the final and scored in the 74th minute of the 3-2 win over Argentina, as the Atlanta 1996 squad page shows. Then the knee went. He was 25. He played one match at the 1998 World Cup, a start against Bulgaria. Just one. By his own account the knee was hurt in training two days after the death of General Sani Abacha. Without the old speed and strength, he has said, “it's a mouse, not the Bull”.
Roles since retiring
His coaching record starts at Nasarawa United in 2006 and 2007. He then served as a Nigeria assistant from 2008 to 2014, which includes the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations win under Stephen Keshi. Interim charge of the national team followed in 2014 and 2015. Then Finland, where JS Hercules made him coach and later technical director.
An older version of this site called him technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation. That was wrong.
In February 2020 a newspaper reported he would replace Bitrus Bewarang, and federation spokesman Ademola Olajire said nobody had informed him of any such appointment, and the federation said the post was not vacant. The real appointment came that month. President Muhammadu Buhari named him Nigeria's football ambassador, a talent-scouting role for the sports ministry, and we covered the ambassador appointment at the time. We found no public statement on whether the title survived Buhari leaving office in 2023.
He resigned as Lobi Stars technical adviser in February 2025. On Wednesday 5 August 2026, per Premium Times of 6 August, the betting company 22Bet unveiled him at an event in Lagos as its Pan-African brand ambassador, a deal he said he accepted after the company approached him during the Africa Cup of Nations and because of its pan-African reach and its corporate social responsibility work.
Wife, children and money
He is married to Nadia, a model. Accounts of how they met differ. In 2019 he told the Mail & Guardian they met at the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia. In earlier interviews, noted by Premium Times in September 2026, he gave a modelling show in Paris. They have three children, including the twins Kalim and Nazim.
The twins are professionals.
A reported move to the NPFL made our twins story in 2020. Nazim joined NAPSA Stars in Zambia in August 2023, and both brothers signed for Kada Warriors in the Nigeria National League in March 2025.
No audited net worth exists. His salaries are not public. A figure near $1 million circulates online without a named source, so we do not treat it as fact. In September 2026 he told Premium Times he went bankrupt at 27, and that he stayed afloat because of investments his father made for him, including a property he put at N500 million.
He has also spoken of having access to a private jet during his Beşiktaş years. No ownership record is public.
Nothing reliable supports the car and house list that used to sit here.
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