Category: Sports Development

Two years ago I advised former FIFA president, Mr Joseph Sepp Blatter, not to re-contest for the seat after holding the office for 16 years. The voice of an ordinary former football player from Africa was too small to influence...

Last week, I wrote about the fairytale story of Leicester City’s incredible season in the just concluded English Premier League! Reactions and comments have continued to flood my blog. Two weeks before that I had written about the 2030 World...

Let me apologise for remaining on this subject matter this week when so many other great things are happening around the world of football that should attract better attention now than the rather over-flogged matter of the resignation of Sunday...

The next FIFA president may have already emerged two weeks before the elections scheduled to hold on February 26, 2016. Last week there was a report that members of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, have taken a decision to...

I wish I had followed my initial instincts not to watch any part of CHAN 2016 and not have any negative comments to pass on it beyond my misgivings the moment Rwanda were announced as hosts. That would have been...

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...

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...

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...