This is for all young person's aspiring to a professional sports career, examined through my own story. Enjoy it. Two weeks ago, I received the good news that the Federal University Oye Ekiti, FUOYE, would be conferring on me an...
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At the Olympics, to win, you don’t have to come first – the story of Ajoke Odumosu!
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...
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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...
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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...
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Qatar 2022, the week after, and the next World Cup!
It has been one week since the end of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. World Cup finals have usually been drab. The fear of losing the final match makes coaches to be too tactical, and the players under the pressure...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Qatar 2022 – Ibrahim Sunday, Amusa Gbadamosi and Guinness Stout!!
You may not know both names above but read this to the end. The 2022 FIFA World Cup starts in a week’s time. I am not going to Qatar.The reality of missing out on my 4-year football pilgrimage is just...
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