The African Cup of Nations, Africa’s most prestigious football competition, has finally arrived the global stage of recognition. The continent earned it in three weeks of a great football feast, putting on display the full array of African football...
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AFCON 2021, Football
Super Eagles – What next?
The exit of the Super Eagles from AFCON 2021 has surely been painful. But the pain is definitely not deep enough to warrant Ayo Odumade’s reaction in an SMS message he sent to me: “Still very raw and hard to...
AFCON 2021, Featured, Football
A tale of two countries – between Nigeria and Ghana!
If I were the person in charge of sports in Nigeria I would instigate the banishment to Sambisa Forest of any football administrator that dares to suggest that the country imports another foreign coach to handle any of the country’s...
Featured, Football
AFCON 2021 – the Shame and the Pride!
The Shame Can you believe that some National Federation Presidents in Africa were part of a plot behind the scenes to have the African Cup of Nations Championship, AFCON, cancelled for no reason at all beyond obeying their ‘master’s’ bidding?...
Featured, Football
Nigeria at AFCON.
3 days to the start of AFCON 2021, there is hardly any Nigerian that expects that the Super Eagles will not get to the tail end of the championship. Such a high expectation is justified. Nigeria can be counted amongst one...
Featured, Football
2022 – Feasting on hope for Nigerian Sports.
The eve of this New Year has been a long and dark night. As we wake up to the miracle of dawn on a new day in a new year along the endless passage of time, Nigerians must deliberately choose,...
Featured, Football
AFCON 2021 – Under threat.
There is something about the next African Cup of Nations holding in two weeks’ time that does not snugly fit into my spirit. To start with, AFCON 2021 will be taking place in January 2022. That’s the first anomaly. In...
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Eagles, pawns in the politics of Nigerian football.
Politics across Nigerian football will dominate the sports landscape starting from AFCON 2022. Politics in the game and its administration have, indeed, become a recurring decimal, like a groove in a broken vinyl record repeating the same ‘lyrics’ over and...
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Next Super Eagles coach – this mumu must stop, now!
Forgive my seeming enragement in this piece. The matter of Gernot Rohr, the German coach of Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, must have been finally rested. Most Nigerians are in an unwritten agreement that the man must just...
Football
Gernot Rohr, Going, going,…..gone!
I am writing this on Thursday, November 18, 2021. By the time you are reading it on Saturday, the coach of Nigeria’s national football team may have become history. From everything that I can gather from those with ears closer...
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