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Talent Is Never Enough
- By Arukaino Umukoro
- Published 04/27/2008
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This is not just the summary of how Arsenal wasted their chance of becoming Premiership Champions for the 2007/08 season. It is a literary reminder of one of football’s most important lessons...
The Nightmare Rules!
- By MajiriOghene Bob
- Published 03/18/2008
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Nobody can tell if Samuel Peter’s parents peered into a crystal ball before they named him Okon (nightmare). For the boxer known worldwide as the ‘Nigerian nightmare’ beat the living daylights out of Oleg Maeskaev...
After The Nations’ Cup
- By Arukaino Umukoro
- Published 03/18/2008
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The waiting game continues for Nigerian football. Once, again, the once revered Super Eagles couldn’t even fly in the African Cup of Nations. So much for naming big African teams after powerful animals...
Enter the Great Michel Platini!
- By MajiriOghene Bob
- Published 03/16/2008
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Nobody could believe it. That the man who ambled easily into the breakfast lounge of the La Palms Golden Beach was Michel Platini...
Ghana 2008: Soccer Power and Glory
- By SOC Okenwa
- Published 02/11/2008
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It is worth saying here that the memories of Ghana 2008 will linger for a long time. Memories of above-average officiating, of voodooism, of tall dreams, of hopes and expectations, of soccer as a source of unity in diversity…
Arthur Ashe and Tennis Development in Africa
- By Sadiq A. Abdullahi
- Published 02/6/2008
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Ashe has given us a blueprint for tennis development. As a visionary, scholar and educator, in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, he envisioned the tennis world to be replete with different players playing together on different surface in harmony and peace...
The Super Eagles, The NFA And The African Nations Cup
- By Akintokunbo A Adejumo
- Published 01/24/2008
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It was always going to happen. With a clueless, corrupt and inefficient Nigeria Football Association, an ageing team of un-motivated players and an equally useless, clueless and un-committed coach...
Ghana 2008: As Hostilities Open
- By SOC Okenwa
- Published 01/19/2008
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From Sunday January 20th an intercontinental soccer 'war' will be officially declared in A Nigerian Nightmare for McCline
- By Jibril Sado
- Published 10/8/2007
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The ESPN match commentator described the manner of victory as “unorthodox”. You could hardly be more apt in your own description of this night at A Naija Fan 4 Life!
- By Felix-Abrahams Obi
- Published 09/30/2007
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I can't deny the fact that football has become a culture of its own. Business moguls are having boardroom fights just to buy over one premiership side or the other.
