Category: Football

My name is Seģun Odegbami. It is a popular name alright in Nigeria, but more people across the African continent know me as ‘Mathematical’, a nickname coined and gifted to me by a famous sports commentator, late Ernest Okonkwo, during...

By the time you are reading this, the Super Eagles of Nigeria would have completed a very critical assignment against the Mediterranean Knights of Libya. It is critical because so much is at stake depending on how the match ended...

A few days ago, a new coach was hired for the Super Eagles, the national football team of Nigeria. Under normal circumstances, it would be considered too soon to start any controversial discourse on the man. However, the shrouded process...

Last week, the world was going to end! Or so we thought. Why? When the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris concluded without any of the 82 Nigerian athletes returning with a medal around their necks, Nigerians were infuriated. They...

Elephants do not fly. That’s why I often wondered why Rangers International Football Club of Enugu are nicknamed ‘the Flying Elephants’. I know the genesis of the name ‘Rangers’. It is a deadly and destructive cannon used by Biafran soldiers...

These are sad times in Nigerian football. The events of the past two weeks have opened up a can of worms, plus the opportunity of a microscopic look beyond the superficiality of the incomprehensible drama. There is ‘madness’ in the...

The least I can say now is that there is confusion in the ‘house’ of Nigerian football. The last two matches played within a space of a few days, against South Africa and Benin Republic, have thrown the Nigerian Football...

By the time you are reading this on Saturday morning, Nigeria would have played the match that would mark Finidi George’s real baptism into the world of Nigerian football. The long awaited confrontation between between Bafana Bafana of South Africa...