BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Football sometimes offers more than players’ skills and overall teams’ results. It is left for imagination if a fashion show or catwalk were...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA There are two often significant but often-unrecalled goals in the 15-year career of Peter Rufai in the Super Eagles. The first was his...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Former Super Eagles’ midfielder, Sunday Oliseh belongs to the class of players to have run the full gamut for the national team. He...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Sierra Leone in 1949 was the team that Nigeria used to launch its national team into international football as the UK Tourists beat...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA Before the current social-distance protocol occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, Nigeria’s Super Eagles had adopted it months earlier. On this date, 14 July...
Record-setting Chief Adegboye Onigbinde became the first indigenous coach to take the Super Eagles, then known as the Green Eagles, to the Africa Cup of Nations...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA Africa’s all-time sports philanthropist, Bashorun MKO Abiola died on this date 7 July 1998. He was the continent’s best-known sports financier. He died...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Was it a sheer coincidence? Former Nigeria’s left-winger, Kunle Awesu died on a July 5 date. Another national team player and contemporary at...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. In the Nigerian national team matches of the 1970s and 1980s, there was something intriguing about goals scored by Muda Lawal who died...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA This Monday 6 July, it is 29 years since Muda Lawal, one of the best midfielders that ever graced the football turfs of...