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It has been one week since the end of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. World Cup finals have usually been drab. The fear of losing the final match makes coaches to be too tactical, and the players under the pressure...

Tomorrow, the 2022 FIFA World Cup comes to a beautiful end. I wish the better side on the night to win. Whilst we are waiting for that, I go back in time in order to catch up with the future...

Football is not described as ‘the Beautiful game’ for nothing. In Qatar, it has thrown up everything that is beautiful about the game – drama, shocks, suspense, surprises, tears (of joy and of defeat) and football of every hue, from...

I am watching the ongoing matches in Qatar but all I am thinking about is my country, Nigeria. As I am writing this, the last of the African teams, Ghana, just played their first match and lost against one of...

You may not know both names above but read this to the end. The 2022 FIFA World Cup starts in a week’s time. I am not going to Qatar.The reality of missing out on my 4-year football pilgrimage is just...

I call him ‘Youngest Millionaire’. It is a nickname that I gave him following our team’s success at the 1980 African Cup of Nations. We had received a lot of gifts that must have amounted to a tidy sum. Being...

This is not a joke. I am in Accra, Ghana, as I write this. I am under the influence of divine inspiration of some sort. I am about to undertake an ‘impossible’ mission - return to the football field. The...

I salute the newly elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for surviving the hurdles that stood in his path at the elections that almost did not hold following the abracadabra of court orders, an old tactic that once...