It was an unbelievable sight. Early this week, the Adokie Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, erupted in an orgy of celebration immediately after the second-leg match between Nigeria and Swaziland. Nigeria won 2-0. The picture remains etched on my mind...
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Arsene Wenger – time to go!
After FC Barcelona, my next favourite club is Arsenal FC. The reasons are simple – they import players from all over the world, and they try to play FC Barcelona brand of football. Applying that philosophy Arsenal FC has become...
Football, Sports Development
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...
Featured, Football
Champions League, Ballon D’or, FIFA Presidency and more!
There are several things on my mind this weekend. During the week I watched several exciting matches in the European Champions League. One, in particular, left me flabbergasted. What a beautiful, totally unpredictable game football is. There was also the...
Football, Sports Development
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...
Football, Sports Development
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,...
General, Sports Development
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...
Analysis, Football
The baptism of Nigeria’s new coach; Sunday Oliseh
We saw the faint outlines of a new Super Eagles team last Saturday in Tanzania. It was Sunday Oliseh’s first taste of the fiery world of coaching Nigeria’s national team.What a disappointment it turned out to be for Nigerians –...
Football, Sports Development
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...
General, Sports Development
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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