The inter lull comes in just at
that time when you are getting down with an ice cold lager, ready to chill with
the boiz and enjoy the footy fest, yeah bad timing init? I know I am sounding
like a fantasy football addict/nerd here, but you expect that those peeps at
FIFA should know better than to punctuate the glee of league football just when
we were all getting into the groove of the new season. Now don’t get me wrong,
international tournaments are cool and also necessary for the global growth of
the game, however the recent stink of corruption that has engulfed the global
football governing body has left fans of the game just asking what exactly the
essence of their existence is, a balance keeper or another vortex conduit for
funneling the huge largesse the sport generates from sponsors??
Ok so enough of my whining, still
some titbits on football matters to banter even when the leagues are on pause
for the internationals. The Nigerian super eagles did our FIFA ranking no ill
with a narrow 1-0 win over the “Taifa” stars of Tanzania through a Kelechi
Iheanacho scorcher curled into the top corner of Aishi Manula’s goal
in the 78th minute. See the goal here , now that’s 3 goals in 5 matches,
Pep I hope you are watching. Manula had
more or less being the difference between what should have being a Dasukigate thumping & the respectable 1-0 score after 90+minutes. I must say the Nigerian
forwards were very wasteful in attack having created chance after chance without
taking them. I don’t mean to take anything away from Manula’s man of the match
performance though, he was jaw droppingly imperious between the sticks for Tanzania,
hats off to him, he was THE MAN!!
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| The Nigerian Super Eagles (Image courtesy soccernetdotcomdotng) |
We know the super eagles wouldn’t
be at the next AFCON in Gabon 2017, however Gernot Rohr must realize that much
work is to be done for the current eagles team to achieve anything significant
at the next world cup, if we do qualify to be on the trip to Russia 2018, still
a win is always a good start for any coach. I wish him best of luck with the drama
kings at the glass house in Abuja.
Unto other happenings as per
Gunners, a charity match between Arsenal Legends Vs Milan Glorie organized by The
Arsenal Foundation rolled back memories. The football legends were
coming together for the good cause of spreading the beautiful game to refugee
camps of internally displaced people in Somalia and Jordan and I believe
1Million pounds sterling would go a long way in developing football pitches in
not just Somalia and Jordan but also IDP camps in north eastern parts of
Nigeria too[I wish]. Anyway not much to give in terms of a match report as
these affairs are basically not about the scoreline, it was still nice to see
the gunners come out on top by a 4-2 scoreline, with our own Nwankwo Kanu
showing Ighalo, Moses and co how to do it in front of goal. A throwback
Kannuuuuuuuuu grabbing a hat trick and Bobby Pires adding a 4th goal
while Vieri nabbed a brace for Milan Glorie. It was nice seeing Seaman, Gilberto,
Ljunberg, Keown, Anders limpar, Vieri, Dida , Cafu, & other legends that made us fall in love
with both teams strut their stuff on the pitch, showing some of today’s up and
comings that the class was still there you know ………… we still gat game. I for
one had never seen Anders limper play in an arsenal shirt, and it was nice to
see him having heard and read so much about the nifty swede. The one thing that
got me wondering was the absence of Thierry Henry and Patrick Viera……cant help
but wonder if much is to be read into their recent criticisms of Arsene Wenger and
the Arsenal board over the way the club has seemingly refused to strengthen the
team appropriately but that is talk for another day. Some can argue that Igwe
was handling business with the Belgian Team on their world cup qualifiers,
still eyebrows are curiously raised here. Elsewhere we hear rumblings that Ozil
would very much like to take over the number 10 jersey vacated by Jack on loan,
as well as possibly kick of discussions on a his contract extension which would
be nice, maybe that would help convince Alexis make up his mind and stay with
Arsenal too. You can definitely trust us to keep you posted the season’s events
unfold. On that note I will be leaving
you to enjoy the rest of the weekend offering on international footy fest,
please feel free to like share and comment on this post, lets make it an interactive
community for lovers of the game and of course, things Arsenal……ciao
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