http://mathematical7.com To instigate, contribute to and promote the development of youths in Nigeria using the power of Sports Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:40:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-sports-editors/ http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-sports-editors/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:00:34 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=745 It was the largest congregation of sports editors I have seen. There were 34 of them, all top sports editors of some of the major media based in Lagos. The event was supposed to be a brain-storming chit chat sponsored by Tom Tom and put together by one of the most hardworking and most brilliant [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-sports-editors/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/the-greatest-techncal-problem-with-the-super-eagles-%e2%80%93-flying-with-one-wing/ http://mathematical7.com/the-greatest-techncal-problem-with-the-super-eagles-%e2%80%93-flying-with-one-wing/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:58:37 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=743 It runs deep in the fabric of the Nigerian team. Perhaps that’s why it is never paid as much attention as is required. It is not for the pedestrian follower or ordinary lover of the game, but for those with a special eye to see beyond the superficiality of the surface discussions on the senior [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-greatest-techncal-problem-with-the-super-eagles-%e2%80%93-flying-with-one-wing/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/which-foreign-coach-for-nigeria/ http://mathematical7.com/which-foreign-coach-for-nigeria/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:23:42 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=740 Everywhere I went in the past one week the question I am asked has been the same: Who is the foreign coach anointed by the Presidential Task Force to take over from Amodu Shuaibu? It is as if the NFF has surrendered its responsibility to the PTF to select a new manager/coach/Technical Adviser for the [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/which-foreign-coach-for-nigeria/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/from-the-rubbles-of-angola-a-new-dawn/ http://mathematical7.com/from-the-rubbles-of-angola-a-new-dawn/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:31:59 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=734 Angola 2010 has come and gone! The major item of substance that I see that Nigeria can take away from the championship is the gift of ‘opportunity’. Against all odds, the country went to the championship and came away with what many consider an undeserved Bronze medal. But for the conspiracy of the elements to [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/from-the-rubbles-of-angola-a-new-dawn/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/the-world-cup-%e2%80%93-another-project/ http://mathematical7.com/the-world-cup-%e2%80%93-another-project/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:30:37 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=731 The World Cup is a project on its own. It is a totally different project from the African Cup of Nations. The level of competition is different. The requirements, reward and consequence of victory or defeat are also different! That’s why the present time presents the country with a new opportunity to look at what [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-world-cup-%e2%80%93-another-project/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/ http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-my-fears-become-reality/ http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-my-fears-become-reality/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:38:03 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=700 What we fear eventually becomes our reality. That’s what my philosophy teacher taught me some years ago. How dreadfully true that has now come to be for me as many of my fears about CAN 2010, expressed severally on this page, are, one by one, frightfully coming to pass! Before coming to Angola I was afraid [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-my-fears-become-reality/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-most-open-in-history/ http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-most-open-in-history/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:39:28 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=692 The last time I felt this way about the African Cup of Nations was in 1976 when Nigeria hurriedly assembled a team of new players to represent the country at the championship held in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. There was no hope and no expectation. Until the crisis in the national team erupted very few even [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/angola-2010-%e2%80%93-most-open-in-history/feed/