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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CAF Elections – The fall of Hayatou and the rise of Ahmad!
He should have seen the handwriting on the wall. He should known it was a matter of time before fate would catch up with him. The signs have been all around him for several years now but the intoxicating effect...
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The Miracle at Camp Nou!
No one could have pre-written the script of what happened Wednesday night. I count myself lucky to be alive to have watched one of the most amazing football matches I have ever seen. History was made when FC Barcelona upturned...
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Television and Sports – like tea and sugar!
Last Thursday night was very historic in the annals of sports development in Nigeria. A television programme set out on an ambitious adventure to do what has never been done before - use a media platform to drive an agenda...
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Barcelona, oh Barcelona, what have you done?
I am yet to wake up from the nightmare of last Tuesday night. A friend called me up on Wednesday morning and asked if the earth was still revolving round the sun. That’s when I knew I was not...
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The travails of Arsene Wenger!
I like him. He talks football with the authority of a person that thoroughly understands the subject. Arsene Wenger may be in trouble – big trouble! Evening has surely started to set for the great French football tactician. In the...
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The Indomitable Lions are back.
Watch out Africa, the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon are back. The team is back, big time, and better. Their victory last Sunday was no fluke. It was well fought for and well earned. They may not have played...
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A New Year, a new FIFA and a new World Cup!
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...
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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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