The final funeral rites and burial service of the late former Black Stars player Emmanuel Quarshie Kangni popularly known as Abega is scheduled for October 28, 2023.
The burial service, slated for 9:00am will take place at the forecourt of the Accra Sports Stadium in the Greater Accra Region.
Quarshie, per historical accounts, had a successful football career both at club level where he notably played Hasaacas and Egyptian side Zamalek and the national team.
Quarshie would hang his boots at some point and focus on coaching and other aspect of the game. Sickness then struck the legendary player and rendered him incapacitated and bedridden.
Various accounts of Quarshie’s struggle mention Parkinson disease as the ailment that attacked and deprived the great attacking midfielder of an enjoyable life in his latter years.
News of Quarshie’s sickness occasionally flooded the media space with appeals for support for the captain who won Ghana its last AFCON title.
While some private individuals reportedly offered their token, the country for which Quarshie toiled and won glory did not look his way.
Successive government’s played deaf and blind to Quarshie’s predicament until Zamalek got wind of his situation and flew him over to Egypt in July 2012.
Unfortunately for Zamalek and Quarshie, the help came a little too late as doctors, according to Saddick Adams of Angel FM, told the officials of the club that Quarshie could have been saved had he arrived a week earlier.
After year’s struggle with the ailment, Emmanuel Quarshie died a destitute in Takoradi in 2013.
Describing the state of the legendary captain before his death, Saddick Adam said “Quarshie got sick and was bedridden for years. At the time of his death, his tongue had rotten. He went to the Sports Ministry and Ghana Health Service and they all denied knowing him. It was Zamalek who came to Ghana to fly him to Egypt for treatment.