Super Eagles, changing face of Nigerian football

By the time you are reading this, the Super Eagles of Nigeria would have completed a very critical assignment against the Mediterranean Knights of Libya. It is critical because so much is at stake depending on how the match ended yesterday.

A good and convincing victory will consolidate the gains of the previous two matches. The Super Eagles need to return very quickly to winning ways and restore the confidence of Nigerians in their national team as well as in the ensemble of Nigerian coaches.

Winning well against Libya might even change the fortune of football in Nigeria by boosting confidence all around, boosting the football-economy opportunities, receding the matter of a foreign coach further to the background, and creating a firmer ground for general improvement of Nigerian football.

The reality is that Nigeria’s football fortune at the national level greatly impacts what happens to sports, as whole, in the country.

Super Eagles and Football are that important and powerful.

The aura around Nigerian football these days is good. Having been down in the pits due to poor results and poor administration for a very long time, there seems to be nowhere else but northward for the game to go now. Fate, and not any deliberate design of the system, appears to be taking sides and has influenced many positive things in this emerging conspiracy.

Or how else can one explain the following exciting and refreshing new developments?

Kanu Nwankwo, MON, one of the most accomplished Nigerian football players of all time, is the current Chairman of one of the biggest clubs in the country’s history, Enyimba International FC, two-time winners of the African Club Championship, and the first and only Nigerian club to have achieved that monumental