{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Mathematical 7","provider_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7","title":"Olympic jamboree and failed NFF foreign coach recruitment! - Mathematical 7","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"greXwlSEJz\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/olympic-jamboree-and-failed-nff-foreign-coach-recruitment\/\">Olympic jamboree and failed NFF foreign coach recruitment!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/olympic-jamboree-and-failed-nff-foreign-coach-recruitment\/embed\/#?secret=greXwlSEJz\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Olympic jamboree and failed NFF foreign coach recruitment!&#8221; &#8212; Mathematical 7\" data-secret=\"greXwlSEJz\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\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\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/laptop_crash.jpg","thumbnail_width":299,"thumbnail_height":168,"description":"This page was missing last week.  Last Thursday, to my utter consternation, my laptop would not boot after I turned it on. That was when I realized how vulnerable I have become to modern technology. I am now enslaved to my laptop and my telephone. Between them, they hold my life in a strangulating vice. They have become my inseparable companions accompanying me everywhere like triplets. When one breaks down, as did my laptop, I become lost, realising rather shockingly how totally dependent I have become on these two \u2018innocent\u2019 toys that now rule over my life. \u00a0As the night wore on and I became desperate, with time ticking slowly but steadily towards the deadline for submission of my page, my helplessness became so agonizing I fell ill. I was sleepless through the night and had to surrender as dawn broke to the elements. I could not help the situation.   Meanwhile, so much drama in sports was exploding around the world, everyone screaming for my comment and even intervention in a few cases - the search for a new coach for the Super Eagles was approaching a dramatic climax even as some of us wondered how NFF officials were going to get away with what was obviously looking more and more like a play on the intelligence of Nigerians by selling them \u2018reconditioned\u2019 ordinary foreign coaches in the washed cloaks of great coaches; the ugly stories of Nigerian athletes training abroad who, starved of funds, have turned into beggars on the streets of Atlanta and elsewhere; the resignation of Nigeria\u2019s influential basketball captain on the eve of the teams greatest challenge after qualifying for the Olympics; the EFCC\u2019s renewed interest in investigating funds previously allocated to sports from COJA 2003 till the present that need prying into as is on-going in other sectors to fish out the thieves in the ongoing fight against corruption; the global doping scandals that threaten to destroy the Olympic movement if not handled carefully and justly, and that also reminds Nigerians of their own experiences with doping and how one such case inspired a Nigerian to prove the world wrong by winning Nigeria\u2019s first ever Olympic Gold medal, four years after an unjust ban; and so on and so on.   Those were the things playing on my mind last Thursday. Since then there have been several developments."}