{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Mathematical 7","provider_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7","title":"Chief Adegboye Onigbinde at 80 \u2013 My special tribute! - Mathematical 7","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xAR3qI3Npg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/chief-adegboye-onigbinde-at-80-my-special-tribute\/\">Chief Adegboye Onigbinde at 80 \u2013 My special tribute!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/chief-adegboye-onigbinde-at-80-my-special-tribute\/embed\/#?secret=xAR3qI3Npg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Chief Adegboye Onigbinde at 80 \u2013 My special tribute!&#8221; &#8212; Mathematical 7\" data-secret=\"xAR3qI3Npg\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chief-Adegboye-Onigbinde..png","thumbnail_width":630,"thumbnail_height":418,"description":"At the start, I did not like him at all. And I was not alone that did not like his face in Ibadan in those days in the 1970s when I first met him. Indeed, a whole army of supporters of IICC Shooting Stars Football Club of Ibadan disliked him with a passion, and it had nothing to do with his personality, or as a result of anything he did wrong, but simply because he was the coach of a football Club considered the \u2018enemy\u2019 amongst the millions of the Shooting Stars\u2019 faithful. He was one of the senior coaches in the old Western State, and later of Oyo State when a former international player, Pa Ayo Adeniji, was chief coach of the State\u2019s Sports Council.   When I joined Shooting Stars in 1974, a British Coach was to manage the biggest football club in the State at the time, the team that metamorphosed into an ethnic movement of the Yoruba people worldwide, following closely in the tradition established by Rangers International Football Club of Enugu after the Civil War. Rangers had come onto the scene straight from the Civil War in 1970, and immediately threatened to become the country\u2019s FA Cup champions when the team got to that year\u2019s FA Cup final! It was the heroic performance of goalkeeper Amusa Adisa that halted what would have been an incredible feat by a team ravaged by war and hurriedly assembled from its debris. Amusa Adisa, in goal for Shooting Stars, saved a last-minute penalty kick taken by Godwin Achebe, a prodigious penalty kick taker and captain of the country\u2019s national team. He was the country\u2019s captain before the war, and after it, he came back to reclaim it. Achebe had never lost a kick in a career spanning all those many years, a clear indication of how good he was until Adisa shattered the myth of his infallibility. The match was eventually won by Shooting Stars. That match also kick-started an incredibly long and keen rivalry that became a tradition involving the two biggest teams in the country at the time - Rangers and Shooting Stars. The rivalry continues to sustain even until now.   After that, with the politics in Nigeria drenched in ethnicity, most Yoruba gravitated to Shooting Stars and adopted the club as their own movement to counteract the force of Rangers, representing the Igbo."}