National Football Icon  and Reggae Pioneer Allan “Skill” Cole, was on Saturday laid to rest at Sunset Burial Park in Shooters Hill, Bull Bay, St Andrew. 

The Thanksgiving Service for the late football legend who passed away on September 9 at the University Hospital of the West Indies, was held at the National Arena. 

Among those in attendance was Minister of Sport Olivia Grange who led the tributes.

The Kingstonborn prodigy who was 74 at the time of his passing. made his debut for the national team at age 15, becoming the youngest player ever to represent Jamaica at the senior level. 

Locally Cole, first made his mark as part of the highly successful Vere Technical Dacosta Cup teams of the 1960’s, scoring 38 goals in his debut season in 1965 and was also a key member of the star-studded Santos Team that captured three consecutive national league titles

His football journey also took him abroad, with professional stints in the United States with the Atlanta Chiefs in the late 1960’s, and in Brazil with Nautica during the early 1970’s.