Things are happening very fast in 2017. Two weeks into the New Year the biggest news in football comes out of Zurich. FIFA finally approved its president, Giovanni Infantino’s proposal to expand the World Cup from 36 countries to 48!...
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Ballon d’Or – Trophy or Talent?
Cristiano Ronaldo has just won his fourth Ballon d’Or award for the world’s player of the year 2016. Very few will doubt that he deserves the award particularly this year. Why? In 2016 he led Portugal to win their first...
Featured, Football
Carlos Alberto Torres – Africa’s tribute!
Permit me to pay a little tribute. Let me start by joining my little voice to the global chorus of millions of people that are mourning the passage of legendary Brazilian football player, captain of the 1970 World Cup champions,...
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Jose Mourinho Versus Pep Guardiola
It is still morning in the 2016/2017 EPL football season. There is still a long way to travel in the journey to the English Premier League, EPL, title. But 6 weeks into the season the EPL is already jam-packed with...
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An uncommon birthday celebration – I thank you all!
The European leagues go on a short break this weekend. So, I sheath my first football analysis and comments this season until later. This weekend also Nigeria’s Super Eagles will play their first international match under their new coach. There...
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Honour Nigerian Olympians and rekindle the lost spirit of the Olympics!
Nigeria has not celebrated the return of her Olympians after Rio 2016! For the wrong reasons the country has failed to honour the ‘soldiers’, it sent to a global ‘war’ without weapons, without motivation and without adequate preparation, yet expected...
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The NFF and their expensive German gamble!
I am very happy that the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, have finally got their wish. They have hired another foreigner to handle the Super Eagles. I am also happy that they appear to be very happy with their choice of...
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The Olympic medals I (never) won!
It was during the summer of 1976 that I went to my first Olympics. I was a freshly minted graduate of Mechanical Engineering getting ready to report to Lagos where I had been posted to for my national youth service...
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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...
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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...
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