This was written earlier by someone, after much thoughts, i decided to go deep into this certain topic. Its no news real Madrid won their 12th champions league trophy with a convincing 4-1 win over Italian champions juventus. Real Madrid since zidane appointment have been on a high, winning the champions league twice, champions in spain amongst a host of others. The main focus of this post is on TONI KROOS one of the key players in Madrid history making team. Toni kroos was part of the German team and the third best player at the world youth u-17 championship held in south Korean in 2007.
The world youth u-17 championship hosted by south Korea was won by the golden eaglet of Nigeria which had the likes of macauley chrisantus, Lukman Haruna, Rabiu Ibrahim, Rafael Ademola, Akinsola, Oseni, Alfa, Edile, Ajiboye and the likes. After the competition in.2007, toni kroos has gone from a young and promising player into a world class midfielder playing in the best club in the world. After the competition, little or nothing can be said about the progress of Nigerian players.
In my opinion, i think this is a slap on the face of the Nigerian football federation who in the past have done little or nothing to aid the progress of youngsters who have represented the country. Toni kroos has won 3 of the last 5 champions league final which equals the total number of champions league trophies won by Nigerians, with finidi george, nnwankwo kanu and john obi mikel being Nigeria's only recipient of the most prestigious football club trophy in the world. Also, players from the tournament who have gone to make a big progress in the career include
Manchester united david de gea, bojan kric and a host of others.
Toni kross progress should be a wake up call to the Nigeria football federation....