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Match Preview: Enyimba vs Dolphins

It is impossible to discuss this fixture without reference to last season’s title run-in.

Enyimba went into the final two games just three points off leaders Kano Pillars. In the favour of the two-time African champions was the fact one of the last two was a home tie against their direct rivals in Aba. This meant that two wins from two would see Enyimba crowned champions by virtue of a vastly superior goal difference.

First of all, they had to navigate an away trip to Dolphins, who were themselves faintly in the hunt for a continental ticket. League goal-king Mfon Udoh was on target, but it was not enough for the three points; Enyimba came away with just one. Pillars smashed already-relegated Nembe City 4-0 to secure the league title.

The Peoples’ Elephant would get a measure of reprieve via victory in the FA Cup final, but it is unlikely anyone in the club hierarchy considered it an apt consolation.

This will be at the top of the players’ minds on Sunday when they return to Port Harcourt, the graveyard of title ambitions past. Neither club is enjoying a particularly good season up to this point, though Enyimba are distinctly better off, six places above Dolphins on the league table.

It is of course early days in the league, but six goals all season from Enyimba suggests there are serious problems upfront for the Peoples’ Elephant. When you consider three of those came in one game: against Sharks (which in the context of the season was a freak result), this means the Aba side has scored three times in seven games, and none in the last two matches.

It is a problem coach Kadiri Ikhana acknowledged following the disappointing draw at home to Giwa FC last week. “My boys tried their best but we lost the chances that came our way,” he lamented to Goal. He however retained optimism for this encounter, saying, “I have spoken to my players and they have promised an improved outing against Dolphins in Port Harcourt”

In walking over Nassarawa Feeders in the Federation Cup in midweek, the team perhaps missed a chance to get much-needed confidence flowing with a few goals. However, this does ensure they will be fresher than their hosts, and primed to take home all three points.


It is a (small) consolation that the defence has maintained its standard of excellence this season, and it is telling that the list of national team call-ups includes both captain Chinedu Udoji and Idris Aloma. Of course, the defence retaining its standard of excellence remains only half the job; Enyimba must address their attacking hoodoo.

From www.thatenyimbafan.com an @EnyimbaFC Fan

Good day guys,

Apologies for no show yesterday and the very very late post today. Went out of town on official duty and here network is medieval. Tomorrow will be lot better.

We are in Port Harcourt to face a side that have not beaten us in five years (since 2011 according to the ever dependable Fisco stats). However from their recent performances, they are in the best mood to beat us because we on the other hand have been woeful lately.

The team did not play a game in the Federations Cup in midweek as our opponents did not even show up. So we travelled back to Aba on Thursday and made the move to Port Harcourt.

Our strikers have been under some stick recently and that's because of how poor they have been in front of goal. The trainings of the couple of days have focused majorly on that and while I'm not sure what magic Kadiri Ikhana Might conjure up, we can only hope the trick he hadn't activated since the start of the season comes to play here.

Selections for this game might not far away from what we had last week against Giwa except perhaps in goal. I think we might see

Ocheje. Ojobo, Aloma, Udoji, Uche, Aliyu, Anaezemba, Etor, Peter, Okonkwo and Ezekiel Bassey.

It's an eleven that can not just get a draw but get us a win in Port Harcourt. But you see, these players have barely been at their best in recent times and it won't be a surprise If they struggle.

Peter Onyekachi is due a goal, isn't he? He last scored during that Champions League game against Buffles half a century ago. He is a striker and its about time he starts scoring.

There will not be any signs of Mfon Udoh today as he is not even with the team. Ebenezar Odeyemi ought to get his chance today because he travelled with the team but if we don't even see him, don't be surprised.

I hope the coaching crew get their acts right because if we don't take such chances to win such games we should not dare dream winning the title at the end of the season.

Something tells me we could get something out of this game, I hope it's not the voice that told me as a little boy to go take meat from my mum's soup pot.

Im unsure if we will have a live blog for the game but if we don't, you can rely on the indefatigable LMC Twitter and Facebook handles to solve that problem for you.

'EnyimbaEnyi

I read with uttermost dismay the other week the post Seyi Emmanuel Adebayor (SEA), the lanky Togolese International and Tottenham Hotspur forlorn striker wrote on his Facebook page where he made some blistering comments about the closest members of his own family— with mother and siblings all getting a scathing scorecard in the expository account. For an international figure like Adebayor, a one-time African player of the year and a very successful footballer who has played for the biggest clubs in Europe, one would have expected such family matters to be kept within the family circles and expect any crack to remain at a speculation level on the pages of gossip tabloids, but for him to go on and post the milieu on his Facebook page that has almost a million followers, which by extension filtered to the whole football circles and beyond, is an anomaly of some sort. Even then one could sense that he must have reached the Rubicon, so putting it out there for the whole world to see and judge, never mind the ignominy, seemed like the most commonsensical thing to do.

If you are a Caucasian or yours is a culture that is self-sufficient, you may not appreciate what is going on here. How could one be responsible not just for his wife and children, but for his grown up siblings, father and mother and all the people he said he looks after? Should he do all that just because he makes much more than the average Joes that surround him? Well that should not surprise anyone who’s African. Ours is a culture that is akin to the early man. We live in communities— and we are committed to one another. Once you’re rich, you’ve signed up to look after others even if they are old enough to look after themselves. SEA mentioned that he pays for his brother’s children’s school fees! That’s the Africa that I know. You never walk alone and there’s a colloquial language for that: ‘if you chop alone, you go die alone!’


While the culture of giving back and looking after your family and kinsmen is typically an African thing—or by extension, a human thing, especially when you go home with the kind of pay professional footballers go home with, woe betide you if you’re surrounded by sharks! Now, many Africans in diaspora just like SEA would agree with this. They have a responsibility to save the world, save their family from poverty, and saddled with that responsibility, they set out on this mission—go out there and get the sizzling dollars. When they get to the freezing streets of London and New York, they carry along with them the fate of many dependents back home.

But more often than not, while many get what they hope for coming abroad—the basic amenities of life: electricity, shelter, food and all other infrastructures, they’ll have to “earn” a wage and pay for what they enjoy. By the time they deduct their expenses from what’s left—there’s little or nothing left to send back home. But in spite of this hurdle, many still go out of their way to get something across to loved ones—ask the banks who manage money transfer schemes.

Getting back to SEA—the one goof that I have deduced from his vitriol is that he’s handed too much cash to his family and those folks have taken it for granted. And I also sense that SEA is not managing his wealth properly. If you read through the story, Adebayor revealed that he has a house in Ghana worth $1.2 Million and he was surprised when he visited to know that his sister had rented out the house without his consent. The left side of my brain is thinking: ‘How can you tie up $1.2 million property and it’s not yielding cash for you in the first place?!’ And should that kind of property be in the custody of your family members or a reputable property management company? Adebayor also talked about giving lots of money to his parents and siblings and yet they didn’t use it for what they said they would use it for. Why would they when they have an uber rich football star who can reload them with cash at the snap of the finger?

Many Africans living abroad fall for this goof— they send money home to their friends and family and they expect them to help them build a house (very common) or invest in a business. A good number of them get their hands burned and lose their relationships with such tacky arrangements because more often than not, the cash would be used for everything other than what it was allotted for—it’s a no brainer.

Last December, Super Eagles of Nigeria ex-captain and Nigerian international, Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh gave a talk on TEDxEuston titled Education Made the Difference and he shed some light on his life as a footballer—his glittering career, managing his wealth and life after retirement. I believe Adebayor and a lot of people could use the staccato of knowledge he dished out in that one. One day, we would all retire whether we are a super star or an average Joe, living in London or Timbuktu. If we don’t manage our wealth well—we’ll be in for the shock of our lives!

Here are some of the points Oliseh stressed in that talk which can be very useful.

Plan for Life after retirement: Adebayor and a few African players love to live large—you can’t blame them—they’ve made a lot of money and coming from an indigent background, may be they have the right to wear their worth on their sleeves and over their necks! But that’s beside the point. Oliseh said in that talk that you should plan for life after retirement because your family would still depend on you afterwards. So continue educating yourself and find new ways to add value. For Oliseh, he metamorphosed into a coach, a consultant, Television pundit and a FIFA technocrat.
Use your lazy time: Oliseh emphasized that footballers have what he calls ‘Lazy time’—when they are not really doing much. I think we all can find our ‘lazy time’ too. He admonishes that you should plug into something useful rather than fritter away time. Read or watch something that would add value to you. In short, enlarge your capacity.

Don’t give money to your family members! This is the one I love! Don’t just throw the cash at your family, set them up in business. Don’t give them fish, teach them how to fish!

Save! Save!! Save!!! The former Juventus and Ajax midfielder stressed that you are as rich as what you save, especially when you make a lot of money like footballers do (or maybe when you make less… I add!).

I hope we all learn a thing or two from this and make the right choices!

O.P. Philips is a freelance writer/entrepreneur. He is the author of The “OBAMA” in You! His new book , “What Football Teaches About Life” will be released soon.

Culled from: https://opphilips./

groundnutoil:
DOing great bro i d folow ur blog like kilode but y cant enyimba just score na chai

Thanks bro.

I cant understand ooo besides Giwa is in form. They are on top of the league and Mfon isn't playing today

HT Enyimba 0-0 Giwa
You can read live match commentary here- http://www.thatenyimbafan.com/live/

HT Enyimba 0-0 Giwa
You can read live match commentary here- http://www.thatenyimbafan.com/live/

Austinoski:
Thanks a lot!
My computer is Bad so I do most of my coding on my Android Tablet with QPYTHON and Pygame and Django are not working Properly..

I use KIVY for GUI and BOTTLE or FLASK for WEB but they are not easy to program.. I recently went into web-designing and am quite good in JavaScript..

Can you lecture me on game concepts like COLLISION DETECTION, GAME PHYSICS etc..

Ooops! I can't program at all without a PC so can't imagine how fun it'll be coding via a Tab.

As for other game concepts, you may have to read it up cuz I've discontinued with game programming for over a year now. Though if I can remember, collision detection is figuring when two things on the screen have touched (that is, collided with) each other...
These are the books I recommend and you can find them online freely:

Invent your computer games with python and pygame
Making games with python and pygame
Beginning game development with python and pygame

Most of the game concepts are being treated but note they are in 2D.
you might also visit - www.pygame.org

Pls modify ya post joor. How can Lagos not com 1st
EKO ILE

Austinoski:
I have solved many online challenges and I know
Kivy python GUI programming and Application Framework But I think there are things I need to know because I have not done or started any project... Am a self taught Python Programmer

Then you should start projects. Create GUI apps, if it is game, create a game with pygame, if it is web, learn django and create a blog for yourself. There are tons of projects online bro that you can start or continue from, and like you told the guy above, use google. Go to github, type python and you'll see open source projects you can _fuck and contribute to. I hardly ask questions nowadays cuz google is who i ask, not nairalanders... All questions posed by upcoming guys have been asked and a google search would reveal it.

Happy coding!

Just checked the one I just created, yea it is

I'll bookmark that site, it'll come in handy...

1-0

soooting score

Austinoski:
Python programmers I need a iron to sharpen my python programming skills; I knw python quit well but I don't knw how to sharpen my skills to meet up with modern standard... Python gurus of nairaland, Help...

Solve python challenges you can find online...

Dive into other branches of python too like GUI, Web devt, Game devt, Algorithms etc...

Another loss for pillars

ihedioramma:
ubah fc 1-0 now, my dear gabros has sold the fc to ubah ask other people . i was with them last week and is on there moto.

please sir, our league organisers identify them as Gabros FC, what fans say or call them is of no importance. i am aware also of the sale but the name is YET to be changed.

ihedioramma:
@OP ITS NOW UBAH NOT GABROS, GABROS HAS SOLD IT TO UBAH (CAPITAL OIL BOSS).

It is Gabros FC Sir.

internetpo:
how?

They got a late PK thanks to our el-capito Udoji.

It is hightime we drop Udoji. Commits too many fouls doe I dont doubt his commitment to the team.

FT Gabros 2-0 Enyimba

PK TO GABROS

uduokirika1:
Gooooooaaaaaaal Uche Onuoha with d goal for Gabros

'62. Gabros 1:0 Enyimba



Mukina2
Seun
Honerico
Abeg update d thread

Na by force

Heartland 0-2 Sunshine

You dont mean it

And my boo is from Imo

internetpo:
was that rily rily close. pls honestly.

Mfon strikes, the keeper parried away but it fell to Etor who smashes but the rebound hit the upright..

Heartland oooo

Emperortj93:
bros u do well

Thanks Naija league na we own

Person tok say Gabros go win me. GaBROS kor, GaSIS ni

And I'm even running live match commentary here sef -> www.thatenyimbafan.com/live/

^^ That pic was taken last season

I just dont want Pillars to get a point

Abeg forget the gra gra of Giwa, they'll soon drop..