Doesn't it say something when you have a nation of 150m people that exports sportsmen and women to other countries, is particularly football mad and many of whose exports are footballers in major leagues around the world, yet with all that braggadocio, these athletes do not rank in the money stakes?
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We don’t even make any money!
Major Sporting Events, Global Visibility, Missed Opportunities & the Micro-Economy
Countries bid to host major sporting events for a variety of reasons. Many countries seek the opportunity for global visibility that such events present.
World Cups, Foreign Coaches & National Pride: A time to Fly?
The biggest sporting event in the world, commensurate of the Olympics, is the FIFA World Cup. Then, you already knew that.
Before the probes & recriminations begin - Switzerland, Age & National Euphoria
It will be open season for the next couple of weeks where Nigerians will flood the message boards and any available ears with recriminations over the failure of the National Under-17 (?) team to win the now concluded FIFA Under-17 World Cup at home.
God, Football & the gods of football
Three very distinct entities and one national pastime. The ever-present almighty God spiritual creator and leader of existence.; Football, a global sport whose appeal is watching twenty-two grown men and these days women, chase a leather object across a large expanse of prime land; and The gods of football, a mish-mash group of skilled South American pretty boys and sometimes girlish men in yellow/gold and sweet blue.
4 Days to Go : Are we still Playing?
Nigerians are looking forward to the FIFA World Cup. Everywhere you go the discussions are full of a global football championships that will bring excitement and moments of relief from the state of the country.
Caster Semenya: to Man or not to Man.
A six-pack midriff to make Hip-Hop stars proud. A trace of fine-haired moustache here, a few ripples of muscle there and an obliteration of other competitors at a global athletics meet all make for the brouhaha over the gender of South Africa’s Caster Semenya. Is she a he or a she, that is the question.
