Category: Nigeria’s Greatest Players

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...

Check out this list. Fabian Duru (Captain), Papingo Hudson, Godwin Achebe (Captain), Victor Oduah (Captain), Dominic Ezeani, Segun Olumodeji, Sam Opone (Captain), Christian Chukwu (Captain) Idowu Otubusen, Godwin Odiye, Tunde Bamidele, Francis Moniedafe, Sunday Eboigbe, Stephen Keshi (Captain), Augustine Eguavoen...

It is probably the most technical position in a football team. It requires that a player have the physical and mental stamina to defend, to create and to attack. That’s why there are not too many such players that have...

I wake up thinking it is going to be a stroll in the park.  8 hours later I find myself still stuck with only a few names. I start calling a few of my regular respected respondents to help me make...

Goal scoring is the most difficult aspect of football. It is that final act by a player to put the ball behind a goalkeeper. It is what determines winning and losing matches.  The players that master this art are revered....

Unlike most of the other positions on the football field, the playmaking role needs some kind of classification. A striker is a striker across all generations. In today’s football, a full-back or a winger could be playing in, or from...

It is not easy for me to do this.  I took myself out of the list of the footballers I could recall that played the Number 7 position for either the Green Eagles or the Super Eagles since this is...

This is not a contest. It is a celebration of exceptional talents.   I had to call up 3 former Presidents of the Nigeria Football Federation, the current President, three of the most respected veteran journalists, the coach whose recollections...

I had an interesting chat with one of the most experienced heads on Nigerian football. He knows all the left-full backs on focus today. He coached a few of them. His choice of best Left-back kick-starts the conversation.   Introduction...

I spent the whole of today in search of opinions on who the greatest goalkeeper in the history of Nigerian football since Independence in 1960 will be. What a day it turned out to be....working with my phone.  It reminds...