Nigerian Football – A Slightly Different Perspective!  –Odegbami

These are sad times in Nigerian football.

The events of the past two weeks have opened up a can of worms, plus the opportunity of a microscopic look beyond the superficiality of the incomprehensible drama.

There is ‘madness’ in the air. 

Nigerian football is currently being white-washed and sun-dried in the global information superhighway.

Suddenly, nothing is right about Nigerian football, not even the seemingly improving domestic leagues, the steady growth of the women’s game, the explosion in the domestic football business, and the mushrooming of academies. All these have been set aside for the failure of the Super Eagles to win one simple football match at home against the weakest team ever to defeat them in history, a team annoyingly being coached by a foreign man rejected by Nigeria for taking Nigerian football back many decades.  That singular defeat has also, now, taken Nigerian football development back several decades,

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