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...
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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 –...
Football, Sports Development
Segun Odegbami runs for FIFA Presidency
African ace football legend and one of the greatest Nigerian players of all time, Segun Odegbami, has thrown his hat into the ring to contest for the post of President of FIFA - the international governing body of association football...
Analysis, Football
Worries for Enrique, Mourinho and Oliseh!
Three international coaches have been a burden on my mind this week. The first is Luiz Enrique, the coach of FC Barcelona. I don’t know what to make of FC Barcelona on the eve of the new Spanish La Liga...
Analysis, Football
The key to the EPL lies in Madrid not London!
What a way to start the English Premier League this season. Against all expectations and predictions, it is the most prepared team, the one with the most promise of ending the season as champions, which forgets the opening lines of...
Analysis, Football
My crystal ball: Predicting the 2015/2016 Barclays Premier League
Arsenal, not Chelsea, to win the premiership – My verdict! Welcome to the 2015/2016 Barclays Premier League. Permit me to admit that even with all my wide and varied experiences in football I still do not consider myself expert enough...
Football
My crystal ball – predicting the 2015/2016 football season!
We are moments away from the start of the European football season. I must pick the teams that will win the Spanish La Liga and the Barclays Premier League. To start with, I do not need any consultation to determine...
Analysis, Featured, Football
The foreign coach Nigeria needs!
No foreign coach has ever won the World Cup! If that is a fact I find it totally unbelievable that some Nigerians are actually still suggesting that after the exit of Stephen Keshi what the country needs is a foreign...
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