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THIS PIECE WAS WRITTEN BY ME BEFORE THE NFF ELECTION. I GUESS IT IS MANIFESTING,
http://dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2067:saving-the-beautiful-game&catid=7:opinion&Itemid=12

Saving the beautiful game
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 01:00 Mohammed D. Mohammed
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In every sphere of human endeavour, antecedents serve as the bedrock for tomorrow’s well being. For the past decades, the most popular sport in Nigeria, football, has been on the decline, despite the amount of manpower and material resources poured into the field. At the world stage, the country failed to make it beyond the group stages in the World Cup co-hosted by Korea and Japan in 2002. It also failed to qualify to the next event held in Germany 2006 and four years later in the first ever World Cup held on the soil of Africa, the country had a terrible outing by existing the tournament in the group stage again. In Africa, the best the country has achieved is it traditional “birth-right” bronze (which is only played for in African Nations’ Cup), despite its abundant talent in the round leather game.


The same can be said about the Nigerian football league which, just like the national team, has suffered from the indiscriminate board room award of points, in-depth corruption, poor security as a result of administrative failure, nepotism and organized hooliganism.

These poor showings of the national team have not only earned it a change in nomenclature from Super Eagles to Super Chickens but also affected the country’s footballers and officials at the global stage. It is becoming difficult to see the country’s national team players playing for the top teams in top European leagues while most of the little that do hardly make the first team. In the same vein, Nigerian referees, lines-men and other officials are hardly picked to officiate at matches in the world cup and nations’ cup or other global football events.


The poor outing at the last World Cup made the federal government to sack the entire executive council of the football body and suspend the nation from international engagements for two year – a decision that was later reversed as a result of FIFA’s threat to sanction the country. This brought into the limelight the obvious: that there is a problem with our football.

To tackles these frequent failures, a new election that will not only re-brand the football authority (or federation) but also usher in a set of football executives who will champion the needed revolution should be held to provide the needed change.

The same old wines that that had ruined the state FAs and the national FA in the days of its un-productivity are back into the association as executive members. These administrative bureaucrats are the major bane of Nigeria football development. They have been in the system and offered little or nothing at all, and yet they are hanging on to power. Many of those elected to run the FA have never played football, have no previous successful experience in football management and even in some cases have more interest in making money than in football or its growth; neither do they have the strategic plan needed to develop the game at all levels.


What this country’s football association needs are people with the passion for the game, people that have played the games and have the technical knowledge and know the challenges faced by the boys in the fields, not some administrative bureaucrats who do not know the total number of teams in the nation’s football league.

Abedi Pele of Ghana, David Beckham of England, Luis Figo of Portugal all played special roles in their country’s football affairs. Even the dictator Muammar Ghadafi appointed his son, a former player with the passion for the round leather game, to head the Libyan football association. What is the faith of our ex-internationals like Segun Odegbami, Austin Okocha and others willing to serve in what they love to do best?

googles:


have you finally gone mad ? or they are still managing your situation ?

if kissing 9ice's balls puts food on your table why not kiss wat you are fed to kiss and stop pointing stoopid arrows

Arindin omo

googles:
If am a scumbag surely you are the maggot dat feeds on the scum inside that bag. . . dat ranks you two levels lower in the scum world still beneath me

who gives fifty break-dancing f[i]u[/i]cks about ruggedman and nice ? do i look like a mediocre chopshit to you ? 

Its a waste of time talking trashy trash with you and your likes . . .maybe you need to focus on your studies 'stead of listening to 9ice all year round

dats just bad for you, trust me.

P.S : [color=#990000][b]am taller dan the Goliath in your lineage[/color][/b] 

GOOGLE PLEASE KEEP IT UP. I AM LEARNING A LOT FORM YOUR VOCABULARY.

Nupes synonymous with juju and very anti progressive

will never work in Nigeria.

wales:
“The objective of introducing the award is to immortalise the contributions of these great women so that their role in our nation’s history will not be forgotten,” the statement said.

i guess it will have names like patricia etteh, Iyabo Obasanjo and the lousy corrupt, Ego centric Dora Akuyili
DOES THE FIRST LADY HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS TO ORGANISE BULL+SHIIT LIKE THIS?

Umuahia — Rampaging kidnappers in Abia State yesterday took their heinous acts to a chilling level when they hijacked a bus carrying children to school and demanded N20 million ransom before the innocent children would be released to their parents.

While the residents were still agonising over the fate of the kidnapped children, the immediate past deputy governor of Abia state, , Comrade Chris Akomas, who is also a gubernatorial aspirant, was yesterday invited to the state police command , quizzed and detained in connection with kidnapping and terrorism incidents.

Eye witness account said the bus conveying 15 pupils of Abayi International School in Osisioma became the latest victims of the spate of kidnappings in Aba during the rush hours when children were making their way to their schools.

The abducted children were said to have been taken to an unknown destination. Police public relations officer, Geofrey Ogbonna confirmed the incident but added that no official report had been received from the Aba area command.

According to accounts , the driver of the school bus had left early on routine to pick the school children at designated points but on getting to Ekeakpara area, a Camry saloon car blocked the school bus and gun men alighted and ordered the driver to stop.

On getting down, the gun men reportedly seized the cell phone of the driver, ordered him to lie face down and then zoomed off with the terrified school children in the direction of Rivers state.

Although the ages of the school children could not be ascertained , it was gathered that they were mostly nursery and primary school pupils with one SS 1 student.

Akomas had arrived at the state police command headquarters on Bende road at exactly 3.57 pm accompanied by his lawyer, Obinna Nkume, campaign manager, Chief Emeka Okafor, and other aides. He made straight to the office of the state commissioner of police, Jonathan Johnson. About two hours into the interrogation, CP Johnson came down at exactly 5.56 pm and was driven off, leaving the former deputy governor with the assistant commissioner of police in charge of CID.

It was not until about 7.10pm that one of the aides of Akomas informed the waiting journalists that his boss would not be coming down as it has become obvious that he was being detained. But the police commissioner and the PPRO refused to comment on the detention of the former deputy governor.

However it was gathered that Akomas was alleged to have been sponsoring kidnappers in order to make Abia South senatorial district, comprising the Ukwa/Ngwa area ungovernable, thereby making it impossible for other governorship aspirants to have access to the area for electioneering campaigns.

It was further gathered that Akomas was accused of having links with the hoodlums that engaged in sporadic shootings at Ubakala in Umuahia South local government, last Friday.
The embattled former deputy governor was removed from office in controversial circumstances last month but he has rekindled his political career by obtaining the nomination form of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) to contest for the partyís gubernatorial ticket.

He told supporters and party faithful that he would deliver good governance and find solution to the insecurity situation in Abia if elected governor in 2011.

The federal government has keyed Abia in to the amnesty programme for the Niger Delta militants and on September 23, 2010 Governor Orji, for the second time proclaimed amnesty for the kidnappers and other criminal elements. He warned that at the expiration of the period on October 7, 2010 amnesty those who still choose to carry on with criminalities would have themselves to blame.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201009280410.html

glorified Terrorist. they took up arms and are being paid to drop. why wont they continue if the pay stops?

now i know that Nairaland is full of half baked jobless individual sharing exactly the same faith like Nigeria. are these posts your contribution toward moving this nation forward? well, i have said it once and i will still repeat it. IF NORTH THEY VEX YOU, GO HUG TRANSFORMER!