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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...

I am in a daze. The reactions from yesterday have been coming fast and furious. They have been mostly accusations: I left out some worthy captains' names from my list, e.g. Sunday Oliseh, Jerry Azinge, Nwankwo Kanu etc; I did not...

That is the question I asked 10 very seasoned and well-renowned Nigerian football aficionados.   Nigeria has had very many Captains (great and small) of the senior national team, either the Green Eagles or the Super Eagles, at different times...