I have just finished watching the semi-final match of the ongoing Euro 2016 championship between the home team, France, and current World Champions, Germany. How more cruel can football be? Germany that did all the playing and France did all...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Nigeria needs a miracle to get to Russia 2018!
I have often thought that the state of Nigerian football is usually reflected in the state of the country itself, that football cannot be immune from what happens in the rest of the polity. Football is such an integral part...
Featured, Football
Euro 2016 – a lesson for African football!
I am watching the ongoing European Championship 2016 with a lot of interest. I am paying particular attention to what makes the championship different from its African counterpart, AFCON. Why is the European Championship such a massive television spectacle? The...
Featured, Football
Amodu Shaibu – my tribute!
2016 must go down in the history of Nigerian football as a year of calamity, a year of unprecedented loss of some of the country’s greatest football heroes. One week after paying a painful tribute to the most successful coach...
Featured, Football
The exit of Stephen Keshi!
At a time like this one can only draw strength from the depths of philosophy. Any other way is laced with the anguish of the permanency of a loss that no one prepared for. Since Wednesday this week, I have...
Football, Sports Development
President Issa Hayatou, please do not contest again!
Two years ago I advised former FIFA president, Mr Joseph Sepp Blatter, not to re-contest for the seat after holding the office for 16 years. The voice of an ordinary former football player from Africa was too small to influence...
Analysis, Featured, Football
2016/2017 EPL – the battle of the coaches!
I cannot wait for the 2016/2017 EPL season to start. Indeed, the season has already taken off with the game of the coaches. Coaches have assumed a pedestal amongst football followers that places them almost as high up as the...
Football, Sports Development
Nigerians, wake up, with Sports we can change the world!
Last week, I wrote about the fairytale story of Leicester City’s incredible season in the just concluded English Premier League! Reactions and comments have continued to flood my blog. Two weeks before that I had written about the 2030 World...
Analysis, Football
The Leicester City FC fairytale.
For two days at a stretch this past week the headline of all the major global international media was the fairytale story of this most unlikely of champions of the English Premier League, a small football club that went from...
Analysis, Football
Nigerian Football is in Crisis – again
Once again Nigerian football is in crisis. The country’s football federation and crisis are conjoined like Siamese twins. This crisis has the potential to rock the country to its very foundation. The setting is old and well worn – a...
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