First off, we kept our sheets clean. Woo-hoo! What a game! Enough has been said about the craptaculous pitch that the players had to endure, so I’ll say no more.
My question is, “Did the Bafana Bafana really deserve to lose?”

Coming off a respectable 2nd place finish in Beijing with the wind at our backs, we turn our attention to the next slate of qualifying matches with our eyes ever fixed on South Africa (for the actual tourney). The bad news?

The Nigerian Football Association (NFA) is something alright. I have always marveled at their consistent ability to get exactly nothing right. My first recollection of this peculiar power was an ill-fated bid to host the 2002 World Cup that was over before it even began due to “administrative issues” = “We screwed up.” [...]

One step closer to SA2010, that’s for sure. Coach Shaibu Amodu is on the receiving end of (very well deserved) praise and admiration. All is well, let champagne flow from the heavens.
So why this insistently nagging feeling that something dire is about to happen? On the merits of it, the [...]

On Sunday, the Super Eagles played the Bafana Bafana in Abuja with great success. On the merit of technical soundness and overwhelming possession (65%) and two first half goals (10′ Ikechuckwu Uche, 44′ Obinna Nwaneri), the Super Eagles dominated South Africa. In the words of Nwankwo Kanu,

Shaibu Amodu was appointed the national team coach last month with the express mandate of qualifying for SA2010. Our qualifying group includes Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone and South Africa, who are already guaranteed a spot in the Cup as host country. Amodu has previously coached the Super Eagles in 1996 and 2002 when [...]

It;s been a while since i last posted on this blog. I hope guys didn’t get too disappointed haven stayed off blogging fot 1, 2, 3, 4 days. Whoop! I couldn’t believe it my self. I guess the Valentine wind blew hard and refused to move on from my domain. I had a swell time [...]

The super Eagles got eliminated in the quarter Final Stages of the current AFCON by a not just impressive Ghanaian team but technically sound as well. Just a few overly optimistic fans of the Eagles were disappointed. My last post which previewed the game clearly stated my lack of trust in the ability of the [...]

Really I am surprised the Ghanaians are rating Nigeria so high. As a Nigerian I want the super Eagles to get past Ghana but within me I don’t think we can achieve it. We have not been inspiring enough. There are so many reasons why I don’t think we can get past the Black stars.
So [...]

In 1999 when Nigeria hosted the U-20 world cup, Coach Fanny Amun the then coach of the Flying Eagles presented a team that in every measure did not meet up with many people’s expectations. Yet was churning out wins one way or the other to progress from match to match despite playing against palpably better [...]