Five star General N'golo Kanté.

The pint sized French international is a midfielder you can't help but love. With a look like a character from The gods Must Be Crazy, the midfield maestro is every football fan's favourite Chelsea player. Because of his size you may not immediately see him play. You just see his job get done with ease. A closer look will show the man doing the job.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic; king, legend and god.

Talk about a striker who is fully aware of his position, Zlatan comes to mind. His opener against Sunderland exemplifies this. Backing the goal post, he received the ball from Ander Herrera. He held the ball under his feet while using his hand to hold off the defender. He pushed the ball forward towards the central area and curled the ball wickedly into the right corner of the goal post beating Pickford's full stretch. A typical Zlatan goal.

Falcons of Nigeria and the ignorant Sports Minister.

I chose not to blog the story making rounds until I hear a refutal by the Sports Minister. Kepu kepu is that the Nigerian Minister of Sports, Beret Solomon Dalung said that the African Women Cup of Nations winners, the Super Falcons of Nigeria said the team are still being owed because "they didn't expect them to win". No Sir, that statement didn't come from my 5 year old niece, Kamsi. It came from the Minister of Sports, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Algerian Desert Foxes tamed by the Super Eagles of Nigeria.

First of all I want tender an unreserved apology to Gernot Rohr, the Super Eagles Supremo. I doubted his technical and tactical abilities. He has so far proved me wrong. He seem to have a good understanding of African football.

Rangers International of Enugu, worthy NPFL champions.

As a child, I heard many stories from my father, himself a football enthusiast. I learnt about players like Aloysius Atuegbu, Christian Chukwu, Emmanuel Okala and Dan Anyiam from him. The first ride I got to Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium was in his 1975 Mitsubishi Gallant to see a Rangers game. Exactly thirty years later, Rangers International of Enugu became Nigerian champions.

Samson Siasia, the last of the Mohicans.

Sunday Oliseh came, they messed him up, he left. Before him were Big Boss Stephen Okechukwu Keshi (of wonderful memory) and Austin Eguavoen. Emmanuel Amunike is currently trying out his hands with the junior teams while Ike Shoronmu remains a consistent figure in the national team set up. Jay Jay, Mutiu Adepoju, Uche Okechukwu, Rufai and George Finidi are either not interested in the national teams or don't want to come near the poisoned chalice that is national team assignment.
Samson Siasia, the laundry man of Nigerian football has thrown in the towel.

Nigeria Rio Olympics show of shame.

   You see, in my country Nigeria, sports is grossly defiled. Look at the just concluded Rio Olympics where we sent athletes on a wild goose chase. Like sending a child to go kill an ox with bare hands, we asked athletes to go and compete for medals on empty stomach and the lowest level of motivation  against well prepared athletes from more serious nations.