Category: Football

It gives me great pleasure to celebrate my friend and compatriot. Last Sunday, May 17, he turned 69. He told me on Tuesday how he spent the day very quietly at home with his family in Enugu. But then, we spoke...

It is not an easy task to compile a list of 16 players that make up an assembly of the greatest team in 60 years of football in Nigeria, called ‘Dream Eagles’.At best, it is an academic exercise. More so, when...

This week I was in the clinic for an ‘emergency’ check-up. My Blood Pressure rapidly headed northwards! Professor Akinyanju told me as soon as he checked me that it should never be reported that the Enough Ambassador for Africa, NCD, Champion...

This is the last in the series, a journey through the eleven positions in a regular football team. It goes without saying that there is plenty of flexibility in the placement of players into positions on the field, with every...

Most countries in the developed world have a Hall of Fame. This is a structure housing memorials to heroes and famous individuals in a particular sector. The best known is in Sports. It is the highest honour for an athlete...

Today, again, I am going back in history to an unforgettable day in the calendar of Nigerian football. I don’t know the exact dates, but the two matches took place between October and November of 1977.   As a mark of...

It is very hard to find anything to write about that are physically and spiritually uplifting since the global cessation of all sports-related activities. Every subject matter is drowned by the unprecedented fear, panic, desperation, public unrest in many parts,...

Everybody remembers the day of the final match in 1980. People recall where they watched the match, who captained the gallant team, who scored the goals and how they celebrated that victory that night and several nights after that eventful Sunday,...

Nigerians love their number one sport. They also love their national football teams, particularly the Super Eagles, with a passion.  The rest of the world appreciates what Nigerian players bring to the table of football – exuberance, speed, power and raw...

From atop my little observatory, high up in the hills of Wasimi Orile, I am looking down at African football and, particularly, at the Confederation of African Football, CAF.  The organization is hardly recognizable from what we thought was a...