http://mathematical7.com To instigate, contribute to and promote the development of youths in Nigeria using the power of Sports Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:54:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en http://mathematical7.com/the-labour-of-our-heroes-past-must-never-be-in-vain/ http://mathematical7.com/the-labour-of-our-heroes-past-must-never-be-in-vain/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:11:21 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/the-labour-of-our-heroes-past-must-never-be-in-vain/ I am in deep thought as I get to this point in writing this page.  Suddenly, I am feeling melancholic!  Pictures flash through my mind, of generations of Nigerians  that committed their lives to the service of the beautiful game in Nigeria from players to administrators, to coaches, referees and even supporters of the game. I remember Rev [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-labour-of-our-heroes-past-must-never-be-in-vain/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/curtains-on-2010-world-cup/ http://mathematical7.com/curtains-on-2010-world-cup/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:49:21 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=862 It was a glorious end to a fantastic experience. South Africa 2010 has proved all critics and sceptics wrong. As the cost benefit analysis is now being computed, as four weeks of an unforgettable experience is gradually receding into a recess in the mind, as the world starts to imagine what will happen in Brazil [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/curtains-on-2010-world-cup/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/africa-must-take-a-cue-from-the-ghana/ http://mathematical7.com/africa-must-take-a-cue-from-the-ghana/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:31:03 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=840 In the weeks to come we shall be critically examining what went wrong with African teams particularly in the wake of expectations that this would be their World Cup and that possibly one of them will win it. For now though we can take it that the vision to take African football to the zenith [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/africa-must-take-a-cue-from-the-ghana/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-george-weah/ http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-george-weah/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:58:01 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=809 George Weah is my friend. He has been for several years now. He may not be from the ‘museum’ of football like my humble self, but he confesses he never saw me play. But when I called him up many years ago, when he was playing in Italy, to discuss a project idea I was [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-george-weah/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-arsene-wenger/ http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-arsene-wenger/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:55:39 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=807 All the global top guns of football - players, administrators, coaches and even the media - are here in South Africa part of the global festival of football. One would need some kind of divine intervention, however, to catch up with some of them. That was what I needed to catch up with one authentic [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-arsene-wenger/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/lost-in-johannesburg/ http://mathematical7.com/lost-in-johannesburg/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:48:14 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=805 There are several chartered buses waiting at the airport to take the Nigerian contingent to Sandton in Johannesburg. 10 of us get into one. The time is about 6 O’clock in the morning. Our bus is the first to leave the parking lot but the last to leave the airport. For some reason the bus [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/lost-in-johannesburg/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/sa-2010-%e2%80%93-not-the-truly-african-world-cup/ http://mathematical7.com/sa-2010-%e2%80%93-not-the-truly-african-world-cup/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:47 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=759 It is Wednesday night. I have just read Azu’s column in the Punch of Tuesday, March 9, titled ‘2010: Can you afford to watch a match’. It is a lamentation of how the first World Cup to be held in Africa is likely to fall short of the expectation that it would be a truly [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/sa-2010-%e2%80%93-not-the-truly-african-world-cup/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/the-killing-fields-of-jos/ http://mathematical7.com/the-killing-fields-of-jos/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:31:47 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=716 Let me leave the matter of Angola and the national team for now and write about what ails my heart. As we celebrate football in Angola, let us take a moment to mourn the loss of over 400 innocent people, Nigerians, to death in a senseless orgy of violence in the city of Jos. Let [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-killing-fields-of-jos/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-curtains/ http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-curtains/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:30:50 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=714 Let me apologise that I shall be digressing a little from what has become the theme of the season – the African Cup of Nations. This weekend the champion team of Africa will emerge and by the time I am writing this now only one of the semi-final matches has been played so I [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-curtains/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/useful-lessons-from-angola-2010-so-far/ http://mathematical7.com/useful-lessons-from-angola-2010-so-far/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:00:36 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=709 It is Wednesday night. Earlier this evening I watched the Eagles humble an ordinary Mozambican team that did not look any bit like the team that almost halted Nigeria’s qualification for the 2010 World Cup finals. What a come back from the dead that was. Having said that, there are lessons to be learnt from [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/useful-lessons-from-angola-2010-so-far/feed/