The 1982 World Cup Finals tournament is over. Millions of soccer disciples scattered all over the globe were stretched fully for about a month watching football at its best. They watched a methodical Brazil, a tactical Italy in the final, a stupendous Algeria in the first round, a fabulous Cameroon against Peru and a weakling [...]
The first round of the current World Cup Finals which kicked off on Sunday, June 13, ended on Friday, June 25 with a few surprises and upsets here and there. One of the greatest surprises was the 2 – 1 defeat of Karl Heinz Rummenige-led West Germany by the North African Warriors, Algeria, in their [...]
Then in August 1980, the unexpected happened. Have you forgotten the Moscow sex scandal? A panel was set up. And that saw the back of Akioye. He has since been on indefinite suspension. The Shagari administration decided to give the NSC a board and dissolved the NFA at a wrong time. And things began to [...]
Chief Lekan Salami (as if you don’t know him) has dominated the sports pages of Nigerian dailies in the past few days. An astute soccer administrator, Chief Salami chose an appropriate rostrum, “Meet Lagos SWAN,” to tongue-lash the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) and everything that goes with that monstrous set-up as it is presently constituted. [...]
In his first post-victory press conference, Obisia Nwakpa, the World Super Lightweight title aspirant, confirmed the fears of many boxing fans that if the Argentinean invader had kept his cool and delivered a good, solid punch, he would have been knocked out in the very last round. What kept him going, he said, was his [...]
Last Saturday, our junior national soccer squad, the Flying Eagles, blundered to a 2 – 3 defeat in the first leg of the final round of the African chapter of the Junior World Cup qualifying race. I had the opportunity of watching the live coverage on my television set. It was still a case of [...]
When the right man is appointed to perform certain functions, it is said that a round peg is fixed in a round hole. But when, as time goes on, that person loses grip or fails to live up to expectation, the round peg becomes square in the same round hole. Then what happens? The square [...]
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