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Dennerby, Brazil Friendly, U-17 World Cup, et al

By Daily Sports on October 14, 2019

For the umpteenth time and without prevarication, it must be sounded that Buhari and APC have turned Nigeria and the people into mere walking corpses. Regrettably, getting Nigeria’s economy out of the woods it was plunged into since 2015 has been an uphill task. As usual, the directionless government has been involved in many trial and error measures which have put the populace on the deadly edge. Now, it is unambiguously clear that governance has overwhelmed Buhari/APC.

It is an open secret that Buhari’s penchant for putting half-baked individuals in sensitive positions has brought Nigeria to her present state. His people are all over government agencies and sundry. It is truly sad; hence Nigeria is in total and complete ruins today because empty heads are manning subtle facets. Buhari and his cohorts have turned Nigeria to look like a rainbow.

Nigerian sports have been on one chance vehicle witnessing the highest of it during Solomon Dalung era. Today, the multiple issues are still there and more are cropping up in sports, particularly in football.

Just last week, the chief coach of the Super Falcons Dennerby, after his lies, abandonment of his duty post and seeing that he has failed woefully to raise the team from where it has been, threw in the towel to save face. Before it finally came to the open, I saw it. You need to read my write up in September when he ran away and NFF went after him.

I summarised the latest as good riddance to bad rubbish. This is one of the silly contracts Amaju Pinnick and his gang dragged Nigeria into. Rohr is loading; one day we will wake up to hear that the Franco-German has abandoned his duty post, bidding the country goodbye in a bad coin.

Amaju Pinnick, without prejudice, knew the role he played with his co-travellers to ensure Dennerby and Rohr were given the jobs. Now that the job has overwhelmed Dennerby, he has saved his face but pundits and analysts knew what went wrong. That is the way and manner Nigeria and her administrators plan and when such backfires it is truly sad.

It will continue unabated so long as the crooked system obtains. I won’t be surprised if the next stop would be Rohr. We keep our fingers crossed as events develop. Remember there is already denial and counter denials on his purported exit as the Super Eagles technical hand.

I won’t comment on the game between Brazil and Nigeria. There are many lessons to learn from it if we care to improve on the round leather game especially as it concerns playing against grade A teams in the World. The great thing remains that this all-important friendly was organised and it gave the younger Nigerian side ample opportunity to trade tackles against one of the most successful teams in the World and playing against vibrant lads like Neymar.

Ask this reporter, he would readily tell you that the result never really matters; rather what is important is the experience and exposure gotten from the encounter for our boys. However, the role that last-minute injuries played on the Nigerian side, which hit some of the key players, is not funny though.

One would commend NFF for this friendly encounter. It was worth it and Eagles would remain the better for it. One would suggest more of this kind of highbrow friendlies in future to steady the Eagles for greater future.

This year’s U-17 World Cup summit is in Brazil and our Golden Eaglets are already on ground to do battle against her opponents. The man at the head of the coaching crew has the experience and exposure and one hope he would put a round peg in a round hole to get Nigeria up there because this is the World segment where the giant African country has great pedigree and clout. If the right foot is placed forward, the boys would cut their pound of flesh handsomely.

This is wishing the lads and the coaching crew splendid performance knowing that such would lift the spirit of the highly oppressed Nigerians back home.

That is the story of sports in the sharply divided Nigeria now. However, this column would remain objective no matter the threats it receives most times because it is such a patriotic stance that can set us free despite the government habitual non-performance. My consolation has been that the government and officials come and go but the very resilient Nigerian people would ever remain and winners too.

Let us meet on our social media handles as usual, to trash out other rough areas. Meanwhile keep shooting hard, till next week!!

Source Daily Sports

Posted October 14, 2019