Football ALWAYS Matters

What’s really good people?

It’s been a long-time, I shouldn’t have left you without a dope to blog to consume you…Think of how many wack s**t your mouse scrolled through, Time’s up, I’m sorry I kept you thinking of “MY OMO NAIJA”, you keep repeating you miss the post from the blog so you turn on your computer, check your inbox as you get the alert that Capital P is back. That was just an oldie but goodie right there, some Rakim with a Big P flow boys & girls. In the words of young hungry Jay; “I’m sorry – what do you want me to do”? OYA; Let’s Go!

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Ok people; let me get focused…

I woke up and realized today that nearly three plus years ago I wrote and posted my first blog titled “MY SUPA EAGLES”. Na Wa O! How so much has changed and stayed the same abi? Today in a matter of hours Nigeria will kickoff its 2014 World Cup campaign and truthfully nobody knows what to expect. I do know that if I was in Brazil as originally planned it would be a easier because I will be in a better position to work my Naija juju noni.

I know for starters unlike four years ago when I declared Peter Osaze Odemwingie as my favorite all-time Nigerian footballer I can no longer make such claims. I guess I too was drinking the Oyinbo na Oyinbo koolaid of Osaze before he decided to go HOLLYWOOD on Nigeria. The funny thing is his replacement and the Super Eagles new Number 11 is my new guy in the squad Victor Moses. So there is one change already.

Now what has remained the same is all of the lackluster performances in preparation for the World Cup. This is a known fact; if you no want ulcer, heart attack or hypertension then I strongly recommend make you no support Naija football. The agro dey too much I swear bros. For starters I still see too much of the DNA from the last team to represent Naija in South Africa in this current set-up.

So let me tell you a quick story before we get ready for today’s game; I traveled to South Africa to watch the Super Eagles play in the AFCON in 2013. For the sake of not name dropping (if you don’t know by now I HATE a name dropper) I will keep the player’s name out of this story. I was at the very first match in which a Super Eagles player was sent off for a Red Card. I always tell this story because at the very next game before tip-off against Zambia, my junior brother and I actually was sitting behind the Naija dugout and right in front of me was this very player. When the team came out to take their sitting and the suspended player walked up to approach me in conversation and nodded I totally DISMISSED him in disgust. At that very moment he was the reason I believed we were en route to a very quick exit at AFCON and Naija would be shamed by the football world once again. But as luck and destiny would have it, this very player returned from his suspension and was such a key contributor to the team winning the cup that he was named in the Best IX of the tournament.

There you have it, the reason why I tell this story is a reminder you never know who you will cross paths with in life. Today’s hero is tomorrow’s goat.  In life there are ups & downs and if your Nigerian then everyday is a STRUGGLE. The important thing for this World Cup is that we rally amongst our national team in total support. Not our typical jump on the bandwagon when the team is successful and stone them in failure.

This is why football is the called the BEAUTIFUL game. All eleven players working together for the honor of their country. The Super Eagles of Nigeria are Africa’s version of the Yankees, Duke Blue Devils, Cowboys, Manchester United; LOVE or HATE, WIN or LOSE, we are “MUST SEE TV”. So today we go show una how to spell I.R.A.N. noni.

UP SUPA EAGLES & UP NAIJA.