₦airaland Forum

this oduduwa ppl self. they speak gbati gbati lang day and nite! but cnt stand my igbo thing!

make una chill for that lagos oo!

mo wapa

silience sometimes might be the best answer a fool can get! so dnt bother too much with that brov.

they just keep copyin my styl like they dnt know. they are at large out there!

superman will never take then [color=Black]seriously[/color] until something change!

CAUTION THIS IS NOT A GRAMMAR SCHOOL

im sure there is some element of truth in this one as well ! damn south africa  and zimbabewa accent sucks!

[color=Black]im comin back

im caming baeke! una de craze over there[/color]



WORLD CUP 2010 : South Africa blacklist Nigeria?
Ademola Olajire
Saturday, January 13, 2007

It would appear that the South African organizers of the 19th football World Cup finals in Year 2010 deliberately don’t want anything to do with Nigerians as they prepare for the showpiece in three-and-half years time!

South Africa’s triumph at the poll for the 2010 World Cup hosting in FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich on May 15, 2004, was the handiwork of diligent and tireless South African bid chiefs, that country’s former President and world citizen, Nelson Mandela, the South African society and the entire African continent.

But events since the victory have shown that the South Africans, for whom Nigeria stepped down from the race to enhance their chances of winning, do not have so much regard for Nigerian people.


In constituting its Ambassadors for the 2010 finals, South Africa’s organizers have picked the likes of Ghanaian legend, Abedi Pele, Liberian superstar and 1995 World Player of the Year, George Weah, Cameroonian hero, Roger Milla and Zambian legend, Kalusha Bwalya.

No Nigerian made it to the list.


Yet, the continent’s most populous nation with 140 million, boasting so many super athletes and credible sports managers all over the world, has always done her best to buoy South Africa in any way her assistance is needed. Nigeria spearheaded the decades-long battle against apartheid - the obnoxious system that segregated blacks from the whites in the enclave for several decades, denying the blacks their rights.


One can still remember how Nigeria missed winning gold medals at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton (both in Canada, simply in protest against the indulgence of South African white supremos. Nigeria also led an African boycott of the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, because Britain was perceived not to be doing enough to ginger the white leaders of South Africa to abandon apartheid practices.


It is therefore surprising that after doing everything again to assist her in winning the hosting right of the first World Cup to be staged in Africa, the South Africans would shun Nigeria so much.


That apartheid no longer exists today is chiefly due to the concerted efforts of Nigerian government officials, and sports chieftains, who drove the bulwark against apartheid. Nigeria’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Member, Sir Adetokunbo Ademola (now late), did so much to block the admission of South Africa to the IOC, and his replacement, Major-General Henry Edmund Olufemi Adefope continued where he stopped.


In fact, in recognition of the role that Nigeria played in kicking apartheid to a state of permanent coma, the International Olympic Committee included Nigeria’s Adefope in its team to assess the progress made by South Africa in multi-racial relations and eventual re-admission to the global body.


Some of the best athletes to have come out of Nigeria forfeited the opportunity of winning Olympic medals in their lifetime when the country opted to boycott the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. This cast included Modupe Oshikoya, Charlton Ehizuelen, Kunle Awesu, Thompson Usiyen, Mudashiru Lawal, Sam Ojebode, Babatunde Obisanya and Baba Otu Muhammad.


All had won gold at the 2nd All-Africa Games that Nigeria staged in 1973 and were in peak form for the Olympics because the Federal Government of General Olusegun Obasanjo announced that Nigeria would not be going because New Zealand, which rugby team went on a playing tour of South Africa, and continued to dally with the South Africans, was in the Games.


It was a shock to the athletes because they were already in Montreal before the announcement, and had to pack their bags out of the Olympic Village in a hurry as the government dispatched an aircraft to take them back to Lagos.


So many other athletes lost the chance to win medals at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton two years later, which the government again boycotted for similar reasons. In 1986, the government of General Ibrahim Babangida announced that Nigeria would not be attending the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh because Britain was not doing enough to kick South Africa’s apartheid-hugging leaders in the behind.


Nigeria is on record to have spearheaded so many other things to get apartheid out of South African lives. South Africa was eventually re-admitted into international sports fold in the early 1990s.


But the efforts of Nigeria are not being appreciated by South Africa’s new black leaders.

This reporter was a member of a three-man Nigeria media team that interviewed South Africa’s bid leader (now organizing committee, CEO) Danny Jordaan at the Cape Sun Hotel in Cape Town, in February 1999, and he promised that should South Africa get the hosting right, it would be an African World Cup. The country failed to get that one, losing to Germany by a single vote for the 2006 finals, but won the vote for 2010.


Nigeria’s vibrant and respected media dug in deep in condemnation of the act that denied South Africa the 2006 vote and this country’s sports officials spoke against it, saying the ‘World’ should be removed from the ‘World Cup’ since no African country is deemed good enough to host it.


It was the scale and consistency of the condemnation (chiefly by the Nigerian media) and the body language of Africa’s leading administrators that compelled FIFA to adopt the rotation policy that eventually ensured the 2010 finals would come to Africa.


But the events since then have left much to be desired and South African organizers need to explain what qualifies Ghanaian Abedi Pele for a role as ambassador for 2010 WC that does not qualify Nigeria’s Jay-Jay Okocha, Rashidi Yekini, Stephen Keshi or Nwankwo Kanu.


Yekini was  African Player of the Year 1993 and scored Nigeria’s first goal at the World Cup in 1994, and also played at the 1998 World Cup. He played in four African Nations Cup finals and was top scorer in Tunisia in 1994 when Nigeria won the trophy.


Keshi captained Nigeria for 10 years and played at five Nations Cup finals, and also at the 1994 World Cup. He has since gone into coaching and qualified tiny Togo for both the Nations Cup in Egypt and the World Cup finals in Germany last year.


Okocha played in three World Cup finals and five Nations Cup finals, and is included in the great Pele’s list of the Best 100 Footballers alive. An impressario without equal, Okocha played in Germany, Turkey, France and England, and is still playing in Qatar. He also won Olympic football gold.

Kanu won FIFA World Junior Cup in 1993, has played in four Nations Cup finals and two World Cups, and captained Nigeria’s team to Olympic gold in 1996. He was named African Footballer of the Year in 1996 and 1999 and has a Heart Foundation, funding surgeries for Africa’s endangered youth.

Abedi Pele never played at either the Olympics or the World Cup!


The Confederation of African Football, in its wisdom, picked two of its top officials, Nigeria’s Amos Adamu (exco member) and Egypt’s Mustapha Fahmy (scribe) to be co-opted into the organizing committee of the 2010 WC by the organizers. But Saturday Sports learnt these two officials have never been invited to any meeting, event or programme on the championship.


Meanwhile, persons from Europe, Asia and South America are being invited to help the hosts with their expertise in order to deliver a World Cup finals that FIFA will be proud of. Are there no Nigerians who have expertise in this regard?


It must also be noted that the South African organizers have not shown any regard for women athletes and administrators. While the world body, FIFA finds Nigeria’s Mercy Akide good enough to be their ambassador for women’s football, SA 2010 WC does not think she is worth a mention, or even any female footballer for that matter.

rememeber ur words

[color=Black]these africans[/color] damn!!

na waa oo

i

know u coming to post more crap so night night lmao, i am sure these guys know you are an iliterate lmao talk to yourself

but the iliterate ehhh mm
THE NIGERIANS CNT BE FOOLED !

TRY AGAIN slowpoke

now u stuck im afraid u know. no let off

never knew we are in grammar school hmmm

na waoooo! i tire oo

[color=Black]im sure the nigerians are still laughin @ this eurowhore hahha[/color]

that dnt mean $hit u bloody slowpoke fark that haaaaaaaaaaa

too serious ? dnt u think

AND HOW DO U SMOKE IBO pls tell me

: Dios
k blow u then