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This Falcons or rather Lady Falcons, never seem top stop loosing games. They start great in all games and finish poorly. They dominated the game against the Germans until a lone goal against them, they simply gave up. They may be the first to exit by the end of next week.
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Unlike last time, the Nigerian team was made up of foreign names from the Islamic Republic of Northern Nigeria. This year Olympic appears to be a replica of 1996 Atlanta, true Nigerians playing good football/soccer.
The Nigerian team drew with Holland and beat Japan 2 to 1.
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Lady Falcons, Biafra Nigerian Boxers entered the Dragon with low self esteem and booted out of China faster than the speed of Cult 45 for under performance. Meanwhile the so called "Dream Team", Eagles have performed well against their opponents. They are now into the semi-final to face the Belgium who won against Italy with 10 man roaster.
Honestly, I don't know who Siasi is, Hausa, Yoruba and certainly not Igboman, you know; the Biafran Nigerian coach, but I am impressed with his performance, discipline, chioce of words and motivation. Nigeria does not need an Alien coach, they have found one. He has my blessings.
By the way, three African Countries made it to the quarter final, Cameroom lost against Brasil, a game that accrued 32 fouls and more than 11 yellow cards and a red flag against Cameroon. After 90 minutes game clock, extra 15 gave Brazil the lady luck to win the game. Of course Cot'ovior not Ivory Coast lost to Nigeria 2/0.
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Nigerian players at their best, call them superior element against the Belgium or whatever, they were indeed fantastic. The goals scored showed every bit of strength and discipline from short distance to long distance,love connection for the coach. This is the Nigerians everyone missed last game played by bunch of foreigners. The only time, we are proud Nigerians..soccer. Nigerians missed three crucial scores but finished with 4 to 1.
WHO IS SIASI? Siasi, I was told by a pal is from River's state and lives in Atlanta. I am impressed. Nigeria should look no more for alian coach, give him a contract, hands off for complete power on who plays in the national team. It is about merit and skill and when tribal representation is injected the result is inferior players. Siasi is my pick for the head coaching job, he earned, even if he loose the finals. I don't give a damn, Biafra-Nigerians for Biafra Nigerian first and when they fail, they will learn.
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The Olympic is over and here is where Nigeria stood and finished in the Dragons country. You may also read below why Nigerians in the other countries glorified their adopted countries and why Nigeria will be loosing her athlates to other countries. Once again they are no participants from the Islamic Republic of Northern Nigeria. All came from the south and with contiuned and exceptional representation from across the Niger
0 GOLD 1 SILVER [Soccer] [Football] 3 BRONZE.Long Jump and 4x100 relay [women] and Taekwondo
ALSO FROM A NGERIAN EDITORIAL..
There was Team Nigeria at the Olympics, but there were other Nigerians too, all bearing names that have unmistakable links somewhere down the line with akpu, amala, iyan and edi-ka ikong, but they showed up at the Olympics wearing the colours of France, Germany, United States, Great Britain, and Portugal. To cite an instructive example, the British athlete who won the 400 metre gold medal is a certain lady known as Christine Ohuruogu. Her roots are in Nigeria. But the point in relation to Nigerian-born athletes donning foreign colours was well made by Francis Obikwelu in a moving report in the Daily Independent of Saturday, August 23, 2008 titled: "Portugal made me, not Nigeria- Obikwelu" . In the story, Obikwelu had shown clear hostility towards the country of his birth, the same country whose colours he used to wear as an athlete. Peter Edema, the correspondent noted that Obikwelu was full of venom whenever he referred to Nigeria. When a country begins to provide talents for the benefit of other countries, talents that it needs at home to realise its own objectives, it is a veritable sign that something has gone wrong with that country. It is not only athletes like Obikwelu who have fled who are angry with Nigeria, even those who are still in Nigeria are angry. It is a miracle that there wasn't a free-for-all fight in the Nigerian camp at the Olympics. Nigeria's participation in the Beijing Olympics should be a wake up call. It should provide us an opportunity to learn certain necessary lessons, and to use these to redefine our attitudes and develop the sports sector and the public space differently. Yes, we deserve to celebrate the little that we have achieved, but as we do so, let us remember some of the extra-ordinary stories from the Olympics. American swimmer, Michael Phelps, now the greatest Olympian of all times, won eight gold medals. One man, eight gold medals! In terms of weight, that is more than all the medals won by the African countries at this year's Olympics! Africa has a population of 900 million people and yet in sports, all of us put together are unable in one Olympics to come close to one American swimming like a fish. Jamaica has Usain Bolt, the thunderbolt of a sprinter, the lightning bolt, who set world records, and was so confident, he even took time out in the course of the race to showboat. And Bolt, ,with three world records at a single Olympics, was not a single revelation from Jamaica, he and his compatriots, Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay, put their stamp on the game of athletics at this year's Olympics. Since the time of the Greeks and the Romans, sports have always been about the ability of man to excel and over-reach his potentials in a God-like fashion. What is needed in Nigerian sports administration and sporting style is a revolution. And nothing illustrates our backwardness more than the maltreatment of Uchenna Emedolu who was chased out of the Nigerina camp for dropping the baton in the 4 x 100 men's semi-final relay race. According to one report, Nigerian athletic officials had called Emedolu aside before the semi-final race and advised him to make sure he did not drop the baton, because Nigeria needed to qualify. The allegation is that Emedolu is fond of dropping the baton, so much that his colleagues and Nigerian coaches had started suspecting him. He was said to have dropped the baton in May 2008, at the Senior African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. If the coaches did not trust Emedolu, why did they take him to the Olympics? As it turned out, the worst happened in the semi-finals of the 4x100 race. Emedolu dropped the baton again. A panel was immediately constituted and in its report, the panel told Emedolu that "�ou have exhibited misconduct, dishonesty and an unpatriotic conduct during this season." He was then suspended from the Olympics village until further notice. Haba! So unsportsmanlike. The athletics coaches are wrong. Making Emedolu a scapegoat for Nigeria's failure in the 4 x 100 men's relay is malicious. Baton dropping was a major issue at this year's Olympics, and Nigeria was not the only country that was affected: Italy, South Africa, Poland, Britain and the United States also have stories to tell about dropped batons, in the case of teh Us both its male and female teams dropped batons. The IAAF is already taking a look at the matter, the US is considering a study; of all the affected countries it is only Nigeria that is seeking to create and hang a scapegoat. Please leave Uchenna Emedolu alone. The problem is not with him, it is with the Nigerian system. It is not only the coaches in Beijing that have attitude problems. The fans at home too. In the course of the semi-final football match between Nigeria and Belgium, which the Super Egalets won convicingly 4- 1, some football fans in Akute, a borderland community between Ogun and Lagos states made the match even more memorable by killing a PHCN official, one Mr Ademolu, the Marketing Manager in chrage of Ojodu. While the match was on, and the entire nation anxiously sat in front of television sets, PHCN officials had showed up in the particular area, threatening to disconnect power supply. The PHCN zonal office has since stated that its men were doing their job. But the affected persons felt that they had chosen a wrong time and occassion. One thing led to the other, a fracas ensued, in the end, the Marketing Manager lay dead. It is a most annoying incident. The killing should be condemned to the High Heavens. Nigerian football fans tend to be too emotional, and PHCN officials like to provoke their customers. Before this tragic incident in Akute, I had only heard about the story of a certain PHCN official who wanted to disconnect power supply during a football match. All the able-bodied men in the neighbourhood rushed out to watch the PHCN official perched on the ladder, trying to cut the wires. The irate crowd that had gathered warned him not to come down if he disconnected the light. Seeing that the boys were armed with cutlasses and cudgels, the PHCN official aborted his task and came down safely. Whatever may have been teh truth in the present instance, the killers of Mr Ademolu should be apprehended and punished accordingly. Finally, the Chinese deserve full praise for organising a colourful, absolutely impressive, almost totally hitch-free Olympics. Sports is about branding, national image and place in the world. Global respect for China has gone a notch higher, the entire nation hosted the world, and our common human heritage has been enriched. And one lesson that Nigeria can take from this is that China's success was not achived by the central government alone, but by all levels of government. To reinvent sports in Nigeria, all levels of government, federal, state and local, with the support of the private sector and civil society must wake up to the challenges of our reality.
Emedolu is likely to follow suit with other Nigerians that jumped ship to other countries because of the treatment metered to him. Although he has dropped the baton more than twice....Waypoint 1Biafra
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The football season is just around the corner, pro footaball that is and I'm ready for the season. Mike Vick, the wonder boy is back, he served his time for his cruel intentions, and I wish him good luck. Brady is back, he looked good in the preseason, locked and loaded and Bret Favre is also back the third time, sorry, the second coming and I'm sick of it. The arrogant, red neck, Hee Haw from Mighty Mississippi, only thinks about himself not about the game of football. Most ESPN analyist think he loves the game,and I say bull, Bret did and not any more. The Vickings think he will take them to super Bowl and I say, dream on. Bret Favre was a great quarter back, high threshold for pain, a play maker back in the day and at thirty something, Bret is washed up with broken shoulder. He did not do well with the Jets. Yeah, he won a couple of high profile gamesagainst the Bucks and Dolphines and threw over 200 but the rest of the reason was down below. He was released, and now the Vikings think he is a savior, think again. My bait, Bret will retire again in the middle of the season on the side line. This time, he will be benched for good.
I am happy for Mike Vick, he did terrible things to my dogs, deserve to go to the Penn and I forgive him, thats what Christians do and Moslems don't. I think, he will impact the game for the Eagles. He's young and lots of energy , unlike Bret. Brady is back, looked good in the preseason but not as much as before. Any time a quarterback is seriously injured and out for a year, his sling shots are never the same. Brady will win games and injury prone. This games is full of Gladiators and hitmen, somebody will hit him and hit him good, good luck to Brady.
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Nigeria, a country of over 150 million people has no competitor in the Winter Olympics, yet they talk about image. Ghana has one person representing his country for the Down Hill slope. He trained in another country.
Dreams will never be made in Nigeria and will never be when half of the country is moslem. Nigerians appeared to be comfortable with the insignificance of just great in numbers in Africa. Nigerian climate should not detect entry to the Winter Games. Jamaica have more than twice proven they belong in the Winter Games in bobsledge. Nigeria with such a vast number of people should be able to produce at least one competitor in the Winter Game. You wonder, will dream ever be made in Nigeria when moslems are half of the country. Tuffia
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