Jones Attuquayefio who led Hearts of Oak to their historic CAF Champions League title in the year 2000 has passed on.
The 70-year-old died after battling years of illness at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Tuesday morning.
Attuquayefio is best remembered for leading Hearts of Oak successive domestic league titles, capping it with an historic treble including the CAF Champions League and Super Cup titles in the year 2000.
The revered trainer had been kept out of the limelight for a number of years due to ill health and finally gave up the ghost.
He was the head coach of Great Olympics in 1974, after helping the club win the league title again that year, and held that position for 10 years.
Towards the end of his reign, he became the Vice Chairman of the Ghana Football Association in 1982; a position he held for two years. Attuquayefio also won the FA cup with Great Olympics in 1983.
He won the 1994 and 1995 Ghana League titles with Obuasi Goldfields and laid the foundation for then assistant, Herbert Addo to take the team to the CAF Champions League final in 1997.
Attuquayfio became the head coach of the Black Starlets and with a team that contained the likes of Michael Essien, Stephen Oduro, Michael Osei and Bernard Dong Bortey, he won bronze at the 1999 FiFA Under 17 World Cup in New Zealand.
The year 2000 was undoubtedly a crowning glory for the head coach, who had overseen a building of one of the greatest Hearts of Oak teams in recent times.
Under his tutelage, the club reached the final of the CAF Champions League and secured a 2-1 win over Esperance in Tunis which followed their 3-1 win in Accra to complete the double.
He also guided the club to Super Cup success with a 2-0 win over Zamalek.
Attuquayefio guided Benin to its first ever African Nations Cup tournament in Tunisia in 2004 and returned for one last hurrah with Hearts of Oak.
He was in charge when Hearts of Oak defeated bitter rivals Kotoko to win the inaugural Confederations Cup in early 2005.
He is celebrated as one of Ghana’s legends and regarded as one of the country's greatest ever coaches.