Godwin Odyie

Class

1982
Honors

Men's Soccer (1978-1979)

For more than 40 years, soccer aficionados from every continent, save Antarctica, have been kicking off every Saturday in the Fillmore, a weekly tradition started by international students from the University of San Francisco. Over the years, the games have become about more than soccer.

Godwin Odiye ’82 was a member of the Nigerian National soccer team when he was recruited to play for USF in 1978. He remembers when he found the neighborhood game.

“I started playing with them every weekend,” Odiye says. “It was fun. I really welcomed it. Because back home I could never do that, because of being on the national team.”

Odiye, who was an Olympian who played for the Nigerian team in the 1980 Moscow games, continued to play in the Saturday pickups long after graduating from USF, stopping only because of the pandemic in 2020. He is a teacher and soccer Coach at College Preparatory School in Oakland.

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