Last Monday night I was a panelist on an international virtual conference that involved Liberian President and former World Player of the Year, George Opong Weah. It was truly a great pleasure listening to him talk about the past, the...
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Celebrating Babuje – one of the greatest goalkeepers in African Football history!
It gives me great pleasure to celebrate my friend and compatriot. Last Sunday, May 17, he turned 69. He told me on Tuesday how he spent the day very quietly at home with his family in Enugu. But then, we spoke...
The 12 ‘Wise Men’ choose the ‘Dream Eagles’ Squad – From 1960 to date!
It is not an easy task to compile a list of 16 players that make up an assembly of the greatest team in 60 years of football in Nigeria, called ‘Dream Eagles’.At best, it is an academic exercise. More so, when...
Story of the National Institute for Sports – incomplete without Lasun Emiola!
For very many reasons I do not like to write about the National Institute for Sports, NIS. Its story is a pathetic reminder of how Nigeria has lost its way in the development of Sports. The mere thought of what Nigeria could...
I choose to be foolish – Let Gernot Rohr Go!
This week I was in the clinic for an ‘emergency’ check-up. My Blood Pressure rapidly headed northwards! Professor Akinyanju told me as soon as he checked me that it should never be reported that the Enough Ambassador for Africa, NCD, Champion...
The Greatest Central-Midfield Player in 60 years of Nigerian football!
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...
Nigeria’s Sports Hall of Shame!
Most countries in the developed world have a Hall of Fame. This is a structure housing memorials to heroes and famous individuals in a particular sector. The best known is in Sports. It is the highest honour for an athlete...
The football brotherhood, Friends for life – the story of 1977!
Today, again, I am going back in history to an unforgettable day in the calendar of Nigerian football. I don’t know the exact dates, but the two matches took place between October and November of 1977. As a mark of...
The perfect defensive Midfield player – Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh!
It is very hard to find anything to write about that are physically and spiritually uplifting since the global cessation of all sports-related activities. Every subject matter is drowned by the unprecedented fear, panic, desperation, public unrest in many parts,...
The ‘coronavirus’ in Nigerian Football, again!
The world is definitely passing through one of its ‘worst’ chapters in human history. When all of this is over, when this health crisis comes to an end, ‘when the hurly- burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won’ (Shakespeare),...
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