The 2015 Glo/CAF awards have come and gone but the memory that lingers most is that of Cote D’Ivoire’s Yaya Toure, Africa’s most successful and probably most decorated football player, whining and weeping over not been awarded Africa’s best player...
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Analysis, Football
The fall of Jose Mourinho!
Only three weeks ago, I warned fans and friends of Chelsea FC about a looming catastrophe. I also advised that their revered manager, Jose Mourinho, should publicly apologise to Dr Eva Caneiro, the young, innocent female medical doctor that he...
Football, Sports Development
FIFA – A message from Beyond!
During the week I watched all the matches of the Champions league in Europe. I mean, if you look around at the mess you have made of the world in virtually all fields, you must give yourselves a pat on...
Football
Nigeria versus Swaziland – matters arising!
It was an unbelievable sight. Early this week, the Adokie Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, erupted in an orgy of celebration immediately after the second-leg match between Nigeria and Swaziland. Nigeria won 2-0. The picture remains etched on my mind...
Football
Arsene Wenger – time to go!
After FC Barcelona, my next favourite club is Arsenal FC. The reasons are simple – they import players from all over the world, and they try to play FC Barcelona brand of football. Applying that philosophy Arsenal FC has become...
Football, Sports Development
FIFA Presidency – an inquest is required!
This will be my last piece on my FIFA election odyssey, an experience so brief but yet so rich and beautiful. I deliberately choose to look on the brighter side of that adventure, the side that celebrates the “audacity of...
Featured, Football
Champions League, Ballon D’or, FIFA Presidency and more!
There are several things on my mind this weekend. During the week I watched several exciting matches in the European Champions League. One, in particular, left me flabbergasted. What a beautiful, totally unpredictable game football is. There was also the...
Football, Sports Development
An African’s FIFA presidency dream – an update!
The countdown to the February 26, 2016 election has begun. There are only five working days left between Nigeria and the realization of the country’s ambition to present a candidate for the vacant seat of the presidency of FIFA. In...
Football, Sports Development
The man the new FIFA needs! – (My Credentials – Part 2)
My aspiration is to offer the world the vast array of the knowledge and experiences I have garnered as a football player, grassroots football developer, journalist, publisher, promoter, businessman, researcher, marketer, manager, administrator and educationist. Below is my humble story,...
Analysis, Football
The baptism of Nigeria’s new coach; Sunday Oliseh
We saw the faint outlines of a new Super Eagles team last Saturday in Tanzania. It was Sunday Oliseh’s first taste of the fiery world of coaching Nigeria’s national team.What a disappointment it turned out to be for Nigerians –...
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