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Nigeria once again won the FIFA U-17 World Cup to make it a record four times and bring much needed joy to a nation devoid of anything to celebrate these days. A huge feat achieved that was carried out by absolutely 'brilliant' players who showed there is indeed footballing talent in our great country. The Eaglets swept all before them convincing displays and ‘maturity’ way above their age. They scored a total of 26 goals, 6 of which were scored by the impressive Kelechi Iheanacho. While the country celebrates their triumph, i'm a bit irritated and sad ( yes sad!!!) because i know they didn't deserve their triumph because they cheated their way to the top and bullied honest countries out of the way. Its been a scourge that has affected our football since forever and simply does not pay off in the long run. Before you readers bite my head off, i'll give my reasons why i'm disgusted with the Golden Eaglets. First things first,how did these guys pass the MRI test? FIFA claim they run tests on all participating players to determine their ages but apparently that test was waste of time. I can only draw two conclusions; 1. The MRI scan doesnt work. 2. Our boys used Juju to beat the machine. Because seriously i dont need a machine to tell me those guys are not less than 23-25 years and that's giving them the benefit of the doubt.According to FIFA records, the likes of Iheanacho, Success Isaac, Abdullahi Alfa are just 17 while other players like Habib Makanjuola, Abulazzez Abubakar are the youngest at just 14. My God are FIFA dumb or what? Iheanacho 17? Its freaking hilarious!!! Someone pointed out that their jerseys are bigger than them hence they have to be young. I rebuked it with a simple explanation; they are simply malnourished. Rooney looked 22 when he was 17 because he fed well. Im not saying only Nigeria cheats. All African countries cheat while i raised my eyebrows at the South American players who looked rather old. The Europeans in my opinion looked really young especially the Russians and the Swedes. Some say u cant judge someone's age by their face but believe me if u line up 10 people, i can give an accurate age range of at least 8. My age range for these Eaglets...... well lets just move on. No wonder by the time these guys play the U-20 tournament, they flunk out simply because their real age has caught up with them and cant play at that level. Its easy to bully a 17 year old or younger. Its not if u dealing with a 20 year old. After an Under 17 in 1999, on the back of walloping the Japanese 9-0, the Japan coach Philippe Troussier said he saw one of the Nigerian U 17 players enter a taxi with his “wife and two children” Its time we stopped deceiving ourselves and get real. My biggest problem is the longevity of these 'world beaters'. How many of these players shine at these competitions but fizzle out 2 years later? Where are the likes of Chrisantus Macauley,Ganiyu Oseni, King Osanga who all rocked South Korea 2007? These guys should be 23 years or so yet they seem to have vanished off the face of earth. The likes of Rafeal, Danny Welbeck, Danny Rose, Victor Moses, David De Gea, Asier Illaramendi all played that tourmamet and today line up for the top teams in Europe.There is a minute number of these players that make the Super Eagles like Kanu Nwankwo, Victor Ikpeba, Wilson Oruma, Celestine Babayaro who somehow managed to line up for the senior team. I can bet that the current crop of Eaglets will never make the national based on recent history and lets face it no European club wants to buy a 30 year old claimig to be 18. So where do they end up? Obscure soccer coutries like Singapore, Finland or India. Its damaging our football but everyone seems to be okay with cheating and win at all cost attitude even if it means lining up 25 year olds to bully innocent teenagers. Im a big admirer of the system set up by the Europeans. The German team is currently made up of players who represented the junior teams and worked their way up to the senior team. Mesut Ozil, Manuel Neuer, Sami Khedira, Mats Hummmels, Marcel Scmelzer, Jerome Boateng were all part of triumphant UEFA U21 Championship in 2009. Many of those players went on to play at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa just a year later. That is a country that is serious about football and not just interested in winning so that the the government can give the lands and cars. Spain is another brillaint example who are known for their youth system. Basically all their senior players at one time played for the junior teams and if i remember correctly the likes of Xavi and Casillas came to Nigeria in 1999.They are fit as fiddle and still play football at the two biggest clubs in the world. Toni Kroos, Haris Seferovic, Granit Xhaka, Isco, Mario Gotze, Neymar, Pablo Sarabia were all present at the 2009 U-17 World Cup in Nigeria and now play for the senior national team. Before i continue rambling, Francesco Totti and Gianluigi Buffon may have finished bottom of the group with the Italian Under 17 team in Japan 93, but fastfoward 20 years, There's still no party without Totti and Buffon remains one of the best goalies in the world. I'm sure u get my point now. I wish these current Eaglets good luck. While i'm certain they will end up like them Chrisantus Macauley, i can only hope they prove me wrong. The debate about age cheats is getting old and over flogged so by now the NFF should know the right thing to do but i can only conclude they refuse to do it. Its winning them trophies but in the long runs wins us nothing. Shame on them and shame on Nigerians for celebrating mediocrity and cheating. It just proves we have no redeeming quality. 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Some call him genius, Some call him arrogant, Some call him an egotistic man with an undying thirst to always gain attention. Jose Mourinho famously self-styled himself the ‘special one’ when he arrived at Chelsea from Porto and after probably deciding he needed a change of name, he tagged himself the’ only one’. For me he is just a man he talks too much and is not as good a coach as he appears to be. Mourinho is no doubt a petty and callous man. The rest of his irritating traits all unfolded in his third season at Madrid which made me convinced Johan Cruyff isn’t going senile. He executed the worst possible start to a Madrid season and made all sorts of lame excuses. His primary target which was the Champions League he barely scraped through the group stage behind a brilliant Borussia Dortmund who deservedly finished first in the group and could have beaten Madrid home and away. All this while he had picked fights Sergio Ramos, Alberto Toril the Madrid youth coach and Iker Casillas albeit it being rumours at the time. Mourinho benched Casillas in a league game against Malaga claiming Saint Iker had lost form and needed competition. Antonio Adan was installed as the new No 1 amid unconvincing displays and numerous errors. Casilllas managed to get his spot back but got injured almost immediately. Mourinho sensing an opportunity to punish Spain’s most loved figure before he left the capital brought in Diego Lopez the former Madrid youth keeper from Sevilla. No doubt the man proved himself but even when Casillas got back from injury, Mourinho didn’t give him a single second of playing time. It was clearly personal. Mourinho had shown his knack for benching players for reasons that had nothing to do with form. Ramos was the first to experience the tyranny of Mourinho benching him against Man City for showing support to Mesut Ozil who was roundly criticized by the Portuguese. No doubt he is a great motivator but having not played soccer at the highest level, his lack of a football philosophy is apparent for all to see. He doesn’t set up teams for the long haul but rather choosing to hurriedly assemble a defensive minded and counter attacking team with no idea how to establish a clear pattern. That’s why his former teams suffered so badly having set them up with a fire brigade approach philosophy and playing the role of psychologist and not a coach. When things don’t go his way, he blames the officials, the opposition players and his players as well. He resorts to crude and ugly tactics when he is clearly short of ideas and when that doesn’t work; he pokes people in the eye and apologizes a year later. A coward at heart, he absolutely refuses to give youth team players a chance and would rather line up his first eleven for every single game rather than give youngsters a chance. His fear of failure blinds him to the reality that young players have something to offer and he has been directly responsible for the stagnated growth of some promising players at clubs he has managed. In his first stint at Chelsea, he absolutely refused to see the potential in Glen Johnson and the Liverpool full back has grown to become one of the finest right backs in the world. At Madrid where the youth team possesses so much talent, Mourinho came up with silly excuses why he couldn’t use them and players such as Alvaro Morata, Nacho Fernandez, and Jese Rodriguez were all frustrated due to lack of first team action. He also engineered the departures of Sergio Canales, Daniel Carvajal, Rodrigo, Joselu and many others who are all brilliant footballers but with Mourinho’s phobia against young players, they never stood a chance. Arrogant and selfish, he only cares about himself. He was shedding tears when he left Inter Milan saying he was so distraught to leave his beloved players. Beloved players indeed having flown separately from the entire team that just won the champions league. What coach does that? Jose Mourinho. This is a man who brags at any chance to tell the world he has won two champions league and continuously refers to his old feats at his former clubs and generally felt he was doing Madrid a favour by coaching them. What a man!!! He basically fought with everyone at Madrid and he hated the press as much as they hated him. A number of press conferences were handled by Aitor Karanka and it was clear Mourinho was avoiding the press which he clearly didn’t get along with. During his first stint at Chelsea he talked and talked and talked all day long and the English press were clearly intrigued. Not so much the Spanish press who saw right through him and clearly couldn’t wait for him to leave Spain. Using the Clasicos as a smokescreen, he tried to engineer enmity within the Spanish camp by insisting Madrid players shouldn’t be friends with Barcelona players. He was clearly referring to Casilllas and Xavi who enjoyed a solid friendship but was nearly torn apart by the Portuguese. Towards the end of a miserable three year stay with Madrid in which he only won three trophies, he started taking swipes at everybody and anybody he felt like. While he continued to torture Iker Casillas, he turned his attention to Pepe who had shown support to Casillas. Needless to say the defender was punished as he was banished from the team and was mocked by Mourinho. The remainder of his press conferences was used to highlight his small successes at the Bernabeu continuously referring to the petty fact that he was the one who led Madrid out of the round of sixteen for the first time in 7 years in the Champions League. Firstly that’s beside the point and secondly that was not what Madrid hired him for and for a man who is so self-assured and obnoxious, a Champions League final in three years would not have been out of place considering the resources at his disposal. A couple of days later it was announced that Madrid and Mourinho had parted ways after a torrid 3 year reign and one could hear the sigh of relief around Spain. Now back at Chelsea, I wish him the best. I must say I respect the man as a great motivator and someone who is brilliant at man managing. A combination of those two skills has brought him considerable successes wherever he goes. But Chelsea shouldn’t expect a reformed Mourinho who should have matured over the years. They should expect a power hungry, fame seeking and completely selfish man who is after personal success and could care less about the long term future of the club. That’s the Jose Mourinho I know. For breaking sport news and on poin sport articles... visit us @ http://sportunes91..com/ |
As sports fans we take pride wen we see our teams or our best athletes create unimaginable records.. instantly we start to brag about it. some of these records are unbreakable, while some are under threat and will be broken any moment from now. My 1st on the list of the soon to be broken massive record is the NBA League MVP's! In the 70's Kareem Abdul Jabber dominated the NBA as he scooped Six (6) MVP's, many have come and come since then, but the record still stands. Even the man considered to be the greatest basketballer of all time Micheal Jordan didnt win more than Five (5). Earlier in the month LeBron James collected his fourth league MVP award (HERE), he stands the best chance ever to challenge history, record and statistics as far as breaking the all-time record for the most Maurice Podoloff Trophies is concerned. James has established himself as the greatest player on the planet, specifically in the past two seasons, Still only 28 years, he's the youngest player to win 4 MVP's. With Jordan winning his 5th MVP @ 35, Its safe to say 7 years from today, King James's MVP record will never be broken. For more sport gists, sports news without ostracization.. visit http://okusamiitunu..com/ |