I am not a great fan of Manchester United FC, Jose Mourinho or even Paul Pogba. Yet I am celebrating all three of them because of their common indefatigable spirit. They all always seem to be able to navigate where...
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2030 – West Africa’s turn to host the World Cup!
On the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2017, I followed the news on CNN. It was about USA, Mexico and Canada, in short the entire North American continent, bidding to host the FIFA World Cup in 2026 when the new...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Solomon Dalung versus Federation Presidents!
Elections into the board of national sports federations are just around the corner. They have generated a lot of controversy within the sports family these past few weeks. Different groups are contesting for the power to control the different national...
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The ‘killing’ of Liberty Stadium, once one of the best stadia in the world!
I anchor a new sports programme on Africa’s largest television network, the NTA, with a conservative domestic viewership of some 60 million Nigerians in all corners of the country. The live programme, The Sports Parliament, has been running for 10...
Analysis, Featured, Football, Sports Development
Messi, Ronaldo, and the greatest player in history debate!
FC Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegan thinks so – that Lionel Messi is the greatest player in the history of the game! He joins millions of people around the world, including yours truly, who also think so and are celebrating...
Analysis, Football
Champions league preview
Real Madrid, the real deal. Football is a psychologically brutal game. It does not take any prisoners. It is cold and heartless. Otherwise, Bayern Munich would not have lost the way they did last Tuesday night and the world has...
Analysis, Featured, Football, Sports Development
Sports revolution fire in Edo State – advancing the legacy of Ogbemudia!
Something exciting is cooking in Edo State. I need to tell it and predict its probable outcome. At last I believe that there is a new ‘prophet’ in the land, somebody in authority, someone that has the political will...
Analysis, Football
Nigeria’s Super Eagles – an emerging foreign legion!
In the past few months, Gernot Rohr, the German coach of Nigeria’s national football team, has been combing European leagues for players of Nigerian parentage, but hewn on the rich technical diet of European football, to make up his new...
Featured, Football
N’Golo Kante – one tree that makes a forest!
A participant at a company retreat that I attended during the week asked me an interesting question: ‘when a team has won something and become successful, what does it do to sustain it and to keep winning?’ It was a...
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