In sport, winning is everything, but sometimes to win does not require coming First! This is a fundamental lesson, not just in sports but in all of life. But it takes sport to provide the perfect model for this fundamental...
Featured, General
Lesson in morality – how football jerseys landed me with the police!
Forgive my little digression from hard-core sports. Instead, enjoy this little story of a particular day in my life. I am 10 years old. I am with several of my age mates playing our daily evening football on the huge...
Featured, General
A New Year, a New Message and a New Nigeria!
It is a New Year - 2023. For the first time in ages, I am deliberately setting several New Year goals and resolutions for myself but anchored to a one basic philosophy. The philosophy is not to join in the...
Featured, Football
End of Qatar 2022, birth of West Africa 2034!
Tomorrow, the 2022 FIFA World Cup comes to a beautiful end. I wish the better side on the night to win. Whilst we are waiting for that, I go back in time in order to catch up with the future...
Featured, General
The Road to ‘West Africa 2034’.
On Thursday, December 15, 2022, the world will take a short breather away from the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. During this break, a small gathering of eggheads from very diverse backgrounds but with a common cause somehow related to...
Featured, Football
After the Group Stages, a new world power in Football?
Football is not described as ‘the Beautiful game’ for nothing. In Qatar, it has thrown up everything that is beautiful about the game – drama, shocks, suspense, surprises, tears (of joy and of defeat) and football of every hue, from...
Featured, Football
The problem with Nigerian football!
I am watching the ongoing matches in Qatar but all I am thinking about is my country, Nigeria. As I am writing this, the last of the African teams, Ghana, just played their first match and lost against one of...
Featured, General
A Footballer’s encounter with the Emir of Kano!
Warning: This is not the script of a movie. It is true life. I received an innocent verbal invitation from Tony Awe to attend an event at Ikeja Club, an elite social club in Lagos. I know nothing about the...
Featured, Football
‘Mathematical’ returns to the football field!
This is not a joke. I am in Accra, Ghana, as I write this. I am under the influence of divine inspiration of some sort. I am about to undertake an ‘impossible’ mission - return to the football field. The...
Featured, Football
Ibrahim Musa Gusau – A new President, a new Era?
I salute the newly elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for surviving the hurdles that stood in his path at the elections that almost did not hold following the abracadabra of court orders, an old tactic that once...
Latest Comments