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My name is Segun. My friends call me Big SegAds Corner
On “90 mins with Mathematical” - Nigerian football - What next?
Some 30 years ago, Nigerian football climbed to the very top. The Green Eagles were 5th in FIFA ranking. They were declared the most entertaining team of the 1994 World Cup. The country was referred to as the ‘Giant of African Football’.
By 1995, freshly-christened ‘Super Eagles’ were so attractive an international product that the biggest national teams in the world, including England, came down from their ‘high horse’, and clamored to play against Nigeria. That’s how Nigeria played against England, in a match engineered by me, on the hallowed Wembley Stadium ground for the first time in history.
That was Nigerian football around 3 decades ago.
Last week, the bottom fell out of Nigerian football and revealed its current state through a crucial football match and with a performance that Nigerians will want to forget in a hurry!
That match against DRC Congo was such a dismal performance that the national football federation had to publicly apologise to the government and the people of Nigeria on behalf of the team.
To compound matters, the manager, at an international after-match conference attributed the loss to the ‘Voodoo’ that he saw perpetrated by the Congolese! Ha!!!
At this point, the big question is ‘what next’?
To find a dispassionate appraisal and answer, I have burrowed deep into history to find those with the experience and knowledge to provide some answers to the million-Dollar question!
Join me this Saturday (November 22, 2025) as I go to Greece to get respected football Guru, Mr. John Mastoroudes (remember him?) and to England to outspoken, foremost sports journalist, Osasu Obayiuwana, to lead the conversations and provide an answer to ‘What next?’.
This Saturday on Eagle7 Sports Radio 103.7 FM, Abeokuta,….Or, click here on this eagle7fm.com/ from 7:30 AM and be connected.
No body should miss this!
Pls spread the message.
Dr. Olusegun Odegbami MON, OLY, AFNIIA, FNIS, GS Ambassador.
Some 30 years ago, Nigerian football climbed to the very top. The Green Eagles were 5th in FIFA ranking. They were declared the most entertaining team of the 1994 World Cup. The country was referred to as the ‘Giant of African Football’.
By 1995, freshly-christened ‘Super Eagles’ were so attractive an international product that the biggest national teams in the world, including England, came down from their ‘high horse’, and clamored to play against Nigeria. That’s how Nigeria played against England, in a match engineered by me, on the hallowed Wembley Stadium ground for the first time in history.
That was Nigerian football around 3 decades ago.
Last week, the bottom fell out of Nigerian football and revealed its current state through a crucial football match and with a performance that Nigerians will want to forget in a hurry!
That match against DRC Congo was such a dismal performance that the national football federation had to publicly apologise to the government and the people of Nigeria on behalf of the team.
To compound matters, the manager, at an international after-match conference attributed the loss to the ‘Voodoo’ that he saw perpetrated by the Congolese! Ha!!!
At this point, the big question is ‘what next’?
To find a dispassionate appraisal and answer, I have burrowed deep into history to find those with the experience and knowledge to provide some answers to the million-Dollar question!
Join me this Saturday (November 22, 2025) as I go to Greece to get respected football Guru, Mr. John Mastoroudes (remember him?) and to England to outspoken, foremost sports journalist, Osasu Obayiuwana, to lead the conversations and provide an answer to ‘What next?’.
This Saturday on Eagle7 Sports Radio 103.7 FM, Abeokuta,….Or, click here on this eagle7fm.com/ from 7:30 AM and be connected.
No body should miss this!
Pls spread the message.
Dr. Olusegun Odegbami MON, OLY, AFNIIA, FNIS, GS Ambassador.
Tito writes his first book!
It is 48 hours after.
I am unable to sleep. My head of full.
Reactions, all negative, have filled the air since that disaster of a football match.
It was a catastrophe. A spear was plunged into the hearts of over 250 million Nigerians.
Strangely enough, the world has not ended. Indeed, it continues to rotate without missing a single beat in time, as if unaware that the Super Eagles had just put up, probably, the poorest performance ever in their football story. Na wa o!
What am I losing sleep over it?
I’d better let the Eagles to carry their own cross!
That’s what I did yesterday morning.
Tito, my son. Remember him?
He is a big ‘man’ now.
Yesterday, I was at AISL in Lagos to witness the ‘birth’ of new authors. Tito and all his classmates made presentations of their first works before parents.
The students were called out one by one to the front of the class. They presented the cover of their book, read a few lines from the book, explained the choice of the title and circumstances of the choice, and returned to their seats to great applause.
Later in the program, the students answered questions related to their story.
With every new presentation, my spirit was lifted. I marveled at the confidence of the children and, particularly, the choice of Tito’s book title - ‘The first time I fell off a horse’.
As he read the few lines from the book, I immediately started to find the answer to a question that had bugged me since Tito abruptly ended an umbilical-relationship with his horses and with horse-riding some 3, or so, years ago. Sitting with him and reading through the rest of his short story, I now have my answer. Amazing revelation.
The presentation lasted about 90 minutes. It seemed like 30. Time moved rapidly. I was in total awe, mesmerized by the incredible story each student told in four sentences in this class of 11-year old boys and girls taking parents on a journey into the hidden corners of their sequestered life.
For a person like me that ‘eats and drinks’ the scripted word (with 4 published books to show for it), I gladly acknowledge how well AISL is guiding the children into that very special world of literature.
In the picture is Tito sharing his work with me, much better than the picture of a Leopard caging a wingless Eagle!
Segun Odegbami
It is 48 hours after.
I am unable to sleep. My head of full.
Reactions, all negative, have filled the air since that disaster of a football match.
It was a catastrophe. A spear was plunged into the hearts of over 250 million Nigerians.
Strangely enough, the world has not ended. Indeed, it continues to rotate without missing a single beat in time, as if unaware that the Super Eagles had just put up, probably, the poorest performance ever in their football story. Na wa o!
What am I losing sleep over it?
I’d better let the Eagles to carry their own cross!
That’s what I did yesterday morning.
Tito, my son. Remember him?
He is a big ‘man’ now.
Yesterday, I was at AISL in Lagos to witness the ‘birth’ of new authors. Tito and all his classmates made presentations of their first works before parents.
The students were called out one by one to the front of the class. They presented the cover of their book, read a few lines from the book, explained the choice of the title and circumstances of the choice, and returned to their seats to great applause.
Later in the program, the students answered questions related to their story.
With every new presentation, my spirit was lifted. I marveled at the confidence of the children and, particularly, the choice of Tito’s book title - ‘The first time I fell off a horse’.
As he read the few lines from the book, I immediately started to find the answer to a question that had bugged me since Tito abruptly ended an umbilical-relationship with his horses and with horse-riding some 3, or so, years ago. Sitting with him and reading through the rest of his short story, I now have my answer. Amazing revelation.
The presentation lasted about 90 minutes. It seemed like 30. Time moved rapidly. I was in total awe, mesmerized by the incredible story each student told in four sentences in this class of 11-year old boys and girls taking parents on a journey into the hidden corners of their sequestered life.
For a person like me that ‘eats and drinks’ the scripted word (with 4 published books to show for it), I gladly acknowledge how well AISL is guiding the children into that very special world of literature.
In the picture is Tito sharing his work with me, much better than the picture of a Leopard caging a wingless Eagle!
Segun Odegbami
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