| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Sundaypaul12345: 8:40pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Okay |
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| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by sibepoc(m): 8:40pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
After being complacent |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Agwoden(m): 8:40pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
All these stories on top one useless phone call?
This Femi can cry sha. See how many days it took him to compile these tears. |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by greatiyk4u(m): 8:42pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Only those who PLAYED BET blamed Buhari for the loss |
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| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by seyz91(m): 8:45pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Exactly what they were aiming at but it backfired joyandfaith:
If super eagles had won the game, it would been listed as Buhari achievement. |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by TeeGentle(m): 8:45pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
The thing pain me o |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Emma15678: 8:47pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Cannibal don fill this thread abeg make I run. |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by brainhgeek(m): 8:48pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
May Buhari never call you a day before your big win! |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by gentlegenius(m): 8:48pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
joyandfaith:
If super eagles had won the game, it would been listed as Buhari achievement. True... Just like lifting twitter ban was listed as one of buhari's achievement. |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Sleekfingers: 8:48pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Tokskob2008:
Let's forget bubu for a moment and say the truth, over confidence and lack of focus killed the super eagles... Let's say the Truth....the useless super chickens no sabi play at all.....for losing to tunisia, dey won't qualify for the world cup......I spit on them...... I can never ever support those useless players again. Na injuries go visit all of them.... |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Babastrong(m): 8:49pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Even in the game of life, you win some but lose some.
those that failed to realise this bitter truth earlier, see suicide as an escape route when losing. |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Realists(m): 8:50pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Tokskob2008:
Let's forget bubu for a moment and say the truth, over confidence and lack of focus killed the super eagles... That goal keeper sold the match |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by albacete(m): 8:51pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
I blame myself for watching that match.
My mind was telling me it will end in premium tears, but stubbornness will not allow me. |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Help2020: 8:51pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
presidency:
Soccer-loving Nigerians were heartbroken last Sunday when the Super Eagles of Nigeria could not fly higher than the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in the second round match of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament holding in Cameroon.
Nigerians were full of expectations. The Super Eagles players were confident. President Muhammadu Buhari had done what the father of the nation should do, engaging in a video conference earlier in the day to ginger the players. Alas, Nigeria lost the game by a lone goal, and exited the tournament.
Nobody likes to lose in a keen contest, whether political, economic, domestic, professional, or in sports. Winning is exhilarating, gives a feel-good sensation, and generally sends the adrenaline pumping. But you know what? Losing is part of the game. Any game, all games. We may comfort ourselves by saying no victor, no vanquished, but the real truth is that somebody loses. A team loses. It is ineluctable.
I follow football a lot, and apart from our local and national teams, I also pay attention to the English Premiership League (EPL), where Manchester City currently leads its closest rival, Liverpool FC by nine points.
In October, Man City had been beaten 2-0 by less fancied Crystal Palace, and right at Etihad Stadium, home base of the league leaders. It was something akin to sacrilege.
Pep Guardiola is possibly the best coach in the world today, and handles Manchester City. When he was interviewed after the Crystal Palace debacle, he just shrugged, and said; “Losing is part of the game.” True.
We want to win at all times. We don’t want to be worsted, or have our nose bloodied at all. But life is not so. You win some, and you lose some. That was what happened to Nigeria last Sunday, though rather painfully.
I have read many silly, idiotic and imbecilic comments, trying to link the loss to the video conference the President had with the players on Sunday morning. Witless. Thoughtless. And incidentally, if the Super Eagles had gone into the match without encouragement from their President, the same people would have come out to condemn the leader of the country for being taciturn and insensitive. Head or tail, you never win with some Nigerians.
There are countries, and football teams, who have established a tradition for being outstanding in soccer. But such teams and countries have lost scandalously before, underscoring the truth that losing is part of the game.
We have talked about Man City and the loss to Crystal Palace. After that week, they went ahead to win the next 12 EPL games, and the fairy tale run did not end till last Saturday, when they played 1-1 away to Southampton FC. You win some, you lose some.
Football can be cruel at times. There can be a humiliation of the brightest and best, but it does not mean the end of the beautiful game. After falling, you get up, dust your pants, and move on, waiting for another day. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up,” says renowned American football coach, Vince Lombardi.
Now, see a few checklist of humiliations of great soccer playing teams and nations, and see whether it calls for the otiose politicking, as we saw with some Nigerians earlier this week.
AC Milan and Real Madrid are super powers in football. But at the semi final of the European Cup in 1989, Milan handed a 5-0 trouncing to Madrid.
In the run up to winning the European Champions League last year, Bayern Munich crushed the great Barcelona FC 8-2. The defeated team included world’s best, Lionel Messi.
Argentina is a super power in soccer. But in a 2009 World Cup qualifier, it lost 1-6 to Bolivia. Scandalous!
Brazil, possibly the best soccer playing country in the world, hosted the World Cup in 2014. They had reached the semi final, and were clear favorites to lift the trophy. They met Germany, and got thumped 7-1. Outrageous! Well, losing is part of the game.
Argentina, under the legendary Diego Maradona lost a World Cup game to Germany 4-0. France beat Brazil 3-0 at France ‘98. The old Czechoslovakia trounced Argentina 6-1 before, England slumped to Hungary 3-6 at Wembley Stadium, their home base, while Portugal fell 0-10 to England at Lisbon in 1953. Spain beat Germany 6-0 in 2020. I say it again: losing is part of the game.
One thing was clear from the way the Super Eagles played their firs three matches at AFCON. The German Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, should have been fired long ago. He contributed nothing to Nigerian soccer. The team played better under the tutelage of home based Augustine Eguavoen. As the Sports and Youth Development Minister, Sunday Dare, has said, the team “faced the challenge bravely and gave a good account of themselves.”
On those making mischievous political capital out of the loss, the Minister rightly said: “We, as a nation win together, and we lose together. Sports is a unifying factor and those that seek to use it as vectors of division, targeting players with hate speech and making irresponsible statements should rise above such behavior. We are much better than that as a people.”
The best players in the world-Pele, Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Messi, Ronaldo, etc have lost, and still lose matches. Under Muhammadu Buhari as military head of state, we won our first Under 17 global trophy in 1985. In this dispensation, we have won the same trophy twice. So, why do the heathens rage, and the people imagine vain things?
“Winning is not everything-but making the EFFORT to win is,” says Lombardi. Super Eagles made the effort to win, encouraged by their President, but they lost. Sad. But that is how it is, till another day. Losing is an inevitable part of the game.
*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity Under Muhammadu Buhari as military head of state, we won our first Under 17 global trophy in 1985. In this dispensation, we have won the same trophy twice. Somebody should tell this slowpoke that Nigeria has won it five thanx. |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by xeju: 8:55pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
presidency:
Soccer-loving Nigerians were heartbroken last Sunday when the Super Eagles of Nigeria could not fly higher than the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in the second round match of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament holding in Cameroon.
Nigerians were full of expectations. The Super Eagles players were confident. President Muhammadu Buhari had done what the father of the nation should do, engaging in a video conference earlier in the day to ginger the players. Alas, Nigeria lost the game by a lone goal, and exited the tournament.
Nobody likes to lose in a keen contest, whether political, economic, domestic, professional, or in sports. Winning is exhilarating, gives a feel-good sensation, and generally sends the adrenaline pumping. But you know what? Losing is part of the game. Any game, all games. We may comfort ourselves by saying no victor, no vanquished, but the real truth is that somebody loses. A team loses. It is ineluctable.
I follow football a lot, and apart from our local and national teams, I also pay attention to the English Premiership League (EPL), where Manchester City currently leads its closest rival, Liverpool FC by nine points.
In October, Man City had been beaten 2-0 by less fancied Crystal Palace, and right at Etihad Stadium, home base of the league leaders. It was something akin to sacrilege.
Pep Guardiola is possibly the best coach in the world today, and handles Manchester City. When he was interviewed after the Crystal Palace debacle, he just shrugged, and said; “Losing is part of the game.” True.
We want to win at all times. We don’t want to be worsted, or have our nose bloodied at all. But life is not so. You win some, and you lose some. That was what happened to Nigeria last Sunday, though rather painfully.
I have read many silly, idiotic and imbecilic comments, trying to link the loss to the video conference the President had with the players on Sunday morning. Witless. Thoughtless. And incidentally, if the Super Eagles had gone into the match without encouragement from their President, the same people would have come out to condemn the leader of the country for being taciturn and insensitive. Head or tail, you never win with some Nigerians.
There are countries, and football teams, who have established a tradition for being outstanding in soccer. But such teams and countries have lost scandalously before, underscoring the truth that losing is part of the game.
We have talked about Man City and the loss to Crystal Palace. After that week, they went ahead to win the next 12 EPL games, and the fairy tale run did not end till last Saturday, when they played 1-1 away to Southampton FC. You win some, you lose some.
Football can be cruel at times. There can be a humiliation of the brightest and best, but it does not mean the end of the beautiful game. After falling, you get up, dust your pants, and move on, waiting for another day. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up,” says renowned American football coach, Vince Lombardi.
Now, see a few checklist of humiliations of great soccer playing teams and nations, and see whether it calls for the otiose politicking, as we saw with some Nigerians earlier this week.
AC Milan and Real Madrid are super powers in football. But at the semi final of the European Cup in 1989, Milan handed a 5-0 trouncing to Madrid.
In the run up to winning the European Champions League last year, Bayern Munich crushed the great Barcelona FC 8-2. The defeated team included world’s best, Lionel Messi.
Argentina is a super power in soccer. But in a 2009 World Cup qualifier, it lost 1-6 to Bolivia. Scandalous!
Brazil, possibly the best soccer playing country in the world, hosted the World Cup in 2014. They had reached the semi final, and were clear favorites to lift the trophy. They met Germany, and got thumped 7-1. Outrageous! Well, losing is part of the game.
Argentina, under the legendary Diego Maradona lost a World Cup game to Germany 4-0. France beat Brazil 3-0 at France ‘98. The old Czechoslovakia trounced Argentina 6-1 before, England slumped to Hungary 3-6 at Wembley Stadium, their home base, while Portugal fell 0-10 to England at Lisbon in 1953. Spain beat Germany 6-0 in 2020. I say it again: losing is part of the game.
One thing was clear from the way the Super Eagles played their firs three matches at AFCON. The German Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, should have been fired long ago. He contributed nothing to Nigerian soccer. The team played better under the tutelage of home based Augustine Eguavoen. As the Sports and Youth Development Minister, Sunday Dare, has said, the team “faced the challenge bravely and gave a good account of themselves.”
On those making mischievous political capital out of the loss, the Minister rightly said: “We, as a nation win together, and we lose together. Sports is a unifying factor and those that seek to use it as vectors of division, targeting players with hate speech and making irresponsible statements should rise above such behavior. We are much better than that as a people.”
The best players in the world-Pele, Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Messi, Ronaldo, etc have lost, and still lose matches. Under Muhammadu Buhari as military head of state, we won our first Under 17 global trophy in 1985. In this dispensation, we have won the same trophy twice. So, why do the heathens rage, and the people imagine vain things?
“Winning is not everything-but making the EFFORT to win is,” says Lombardi. Super Eagles made the effort to win, encouraged by their President, but they lost. Sad. But that is how it is, till another day. Losing is an inevitable part of the game.
*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity DId we really played better under eguaveon than rohr because the match against Tunisia made eguaveon bare naked. Our tactics before the red card was simply to pass to Simon Moses and that mumu will start dribbling like who nor get sense. 1 Like |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by slimfit1(m): 8:55pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
joyandfaith:
If super eagles had won the game, it would been listed as Buhari achievement. Femi can't really think that's why he is complaining like. Mosquitoes. If he had serious things to do he won't be here complaining. So many serious issues to worry about he chose football when citizens are being killed left and right. |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Bantu10: 9:00pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
presidency:
[s]Soccer-loving Nigerians were heartbroken last Sunday when the Super Eagles of Nigeria could not fly higher than the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in the second round match of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament holding in Cameroon.
We have talked about Man City and the loss to Crystal Palace. After that week, they went ahead to win the next 12 EPL games, and the fairy tale run did not end till last Saturday, when they played 1-1 away to Southampton FC. You win some, you lose some.
Football can be cruel at times. There can be a humiliation of the brightest and best, but it does not mean the end of the beautiful game. After falling, you get up, dust your pants, and move on, waiting for another day. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up,” says renowned American football coach, Vince Lombardi.
Now, see a few checklist of humiliations of great soccer playing teams and nations, and see whether it calls for the otiose politicking, as we saw with some Nigerians earlier this week.
AC Milan and Real Madrid are super powers in football. But at the semi final of the European Cup in 1989, Milan handed a 5-0 trouncing to Madrid.
In the run up to winning the European Champions League last year, Bayern Munich crushed the great Barcelona FC 8-2. The defeated team included world’s best, Lionel Messi.
Argentina is a super power in soccer. But in a 2009 World Cup qualifier, it lost 1-6 to Bolivia. Scandalous!
Brazil, possibly the best soccer playing country in the world, hosted the World Cup in 2014. They had reached the semi final, and were clear favorites to lift the trophy. They met Germany, and got thumped 7-1. Outrageous! Well, losing is part of the game.
Argentina, under the legendary Diego Maradona lost a World Cup game to Germany 4-0. France beat Brazil 3-0 at France ‘98. The old Czechoslovakia trounced Argentina 6-1 before, England slumped to Hungary 3-6 at Wembley Stadium, their home base, while Portugal fell 0-10 to England at Lisbon in 1953. Spain beat Germany 6-0 in 2020. I say it again: losing is part of the game.
One thing was clear from the way the Super Eagles played their firs three matches at AFCON. The German Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, should have been fired long ago. He contributed nothing to Nigerian soccer. The team played better under the tutelage of home based Augustine Eguavoen. As the Sports and Youth Development Minister, Sunday Dare, has said, the team “faced the challenge bravely and gave a good account of themselves.”
On those making mischievous political capital out of the loss, the Minister rightly said: “We, as a nation win together, and we lose together. Sports is a unifying factor and those that seek to use it as vectors of division, targeting players with hate speech and making irresponsible statements should rise above such behavior. We are much better than that as a people.”
The best players in the world-Pele, Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Messi, Ronaldo, etc have lost, and still lose matches. Under Muhammadu Buhari as military head of state, we won our first Under 17 global trophy in 1985. In this dispensation, we have won the same trophy twice. So, why do the heathens rage, and the people imagine vain things?
“Winning is not everything-but making the EFFORT to win is,” says Lombardi. Super Eagles made the effort to win, encouraged by their President, but they lost. Sad. But that is how it is, till another day. Losing is an inevitable part of the game.
*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity[/s] Nonsense!! 
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| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by israelmao(m): 9:01pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
There's a kind omen that surrounds Buhari,everything he touches turns out unsuccessful.One certain occasion he once released pigeons to fly but they couldn't fly in hands.Joshua the wrestler experienced defeat after he visited Buhari. 1 Like 1 Share |
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| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by WayoProphet: 9:26pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
All I can say is may Buhari call you  |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by ablejesus26(m): 9:32pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Yeye man 
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| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by pargelenis(m): 9:33pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Perhaps we got carried away with our group games at AFCON 2021/22 because are the Super Eagles really that good?
We will have to play more tactically when we face Mrs. Comoros … I hope the new manager can bring that to the Eagles.
We really don’t have many big time players but should at least be able to play better as a team with the talent we have. 1 Like |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by SmartPolician: 9:34pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
How can there be winners if there are no losers?  |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by jaxxy(m): 9:37pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Shut ur mouth!!! |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by jrusky(m): 9:40pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
Femiiii Adesina you again  |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by lincoln08541(m): 9:51pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
No wonder buhari has lost the economy of this nation and all other aspect |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by yomi531(m): 9:53pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
This man knows about football oo. Am impressed |
| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by Agbegbaorogboye: 9:54pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
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| Re: Losing Is Part Of The Game - By Femi Adesina by chaloskyx: 10:10pm On Jan 28, 2022 |
NO ITS NOT ESPECIALLY IF IT HA SSOMETHING TO DO WITH BUHARI |
