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Messi, Ronaldo, and the greatest player in history debate!
FC Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegan thinks so – that Lionel Messi is the greatest player in the history of the game! He joins millions of people around the world, including yours truly, who also think so and are celebrating...
Analysis, Football
Champions league preview
Real Madrid, the real deal. Football is a psychologically brutal game. It does not take any prisoners. It is cold and heartless. Otherwise, Bayern Munich would not have lost the way they did last Tuesday night and the world has...
Analysis, Featured, Football, Sports Development
Sports revolution fire in Edo State – advancing the legacy of Ogbemudia!
Something exciting is cooking in Edo State. I need to tell it and predict its probable outcome. At last I believe that there is a new ‘prophet’ in the land, somebody in authority, someone that has the political will...
Analysis, Football
Nigeria’s Super Eagles – an emerging foreign legion!
In the past few months, Gernot Rohr, the German coach of Nigeria’s national football team, has been combing European leagues for players of Nigerian parentage, but hewn on the rich technical diet of European football, to make up his new...
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N’Golo Kante – one tree that makes a forest!
A participant at a company retreat that I attended during the week asked me an interesting question: ‘when a team has won something and become successful, what does it do to sustain it and to keep winning?’ It was a...
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CAF Elections – The fall of Hayatou and the rise of Ahmad!
He should have seen the handwriting on the wall. He should known it was a matter of time before fate would catch up with him. The signs have been all around him for several years now but the intoxicating effect...
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The Miracle at Camp Nou!
No one could have pre-written the script of what happened Wednesday night. I count myself lucky to be alive to have watched one of the most amazing football matches I have ever seen. History was made when FC Barcelona upturned...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Television and Sports – like tea and sugar!
Last Thursday night was very historic in the annals of sports development in Nigeria. A television programme set out on an ambitious adventure to do what has never been done before - use a media platform to drive an agenda...
Featured, Football
Barcelona, oh Barcelona, what have you done?
I am yet to wake up from the nightmare of last Tuesday night. A friend called me up on Wednesday morning and asked if the earth was still revolving round the sun. That’s when I knew I was not...
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