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...
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Sports Developement
Why I lost my appetite for CHAN 2016
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...
My experience at the 2015 African Women’s Basketball Club championship!
This should actually be my diary of events at the finals of the 2015 African Women’s basketball Club championship that took place in Luanda, Angola these past two very eventful weeks. I led the delegation of the Elephant Girls, the...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
FIFA Presidency – My credentials (Part 1)
Everyone interested in the politics of football around the world now knows that I am interested in becoming the next president of FIFA, the world’s football governing body. Most people wonder where I got the temerity from to declare interest...
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...
Nigeria’s 11 wasted years of a sports development program.
A temporary break from the EPL. I am leaving the EPL alone this week. The transfers and rumours of transfers are all adding to my confusion. Until the transfer window finally closes I will sheath my pen and merely continue...
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