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After Amodu was
removed as the Nigerian coach, he said 3 things I kept in mind, but waited to
see if he knew what he was talking about. First, he said that Lagerback was not
going to perform better than him. Second, he said Lagerback is going to use
about 80% of the players he used for the African Nations Cup. Third, he said a
coach can alone do as much as the players he has. A careful analysis of these
3 points is that Nigeria no longer has good players. Aside from Mikel Obi of
Chelsea, who is not even a regular first 11 of the team, which other Nigerian
player can we boast of that is as good as Drogba of Ivory Coast, Essien of
Ghana, or Eto of Cameroon? The truth of the matter is that either the Nigerian
players are actually too old or they have lost the joy of the game.
Today, I watched with great
humiliation to see one of the weakest team in Europe, Greece, who have never
scored or won a World Cup game dismantle the giant and hope of Africa, Nigeria,
on African soil. It was not shameful enough to see the most populous Black
nation on earth led on the World stage by a White man in the 21st
century, but the joy and light of African football was vanquished by a Greek
team that was totally written off by most football analysts in the supposed
African World Cup. The glory of Nigeria in the world, especially among the
Black peoples, is not our politics, military, currency, or education, but
rather, our football. Yet again, Nigeria officially told the world on the most
watched and most celebrated event on earth that the Black race must look for
another torchbearer to bring glory to Africa. The painful truth of the matter
is not that Nigeria is not good enough, but rather, Nigeria truly does not exist
as a nation.
Nigeria is made up of most people
that present high expectations, but truly does not have what it takes to deliver
anything noble. Nigeria only looks forward to celebrating being present and not
winning, trying but not reaching the mark, and looking for external
justification to celebrate shortcomings. I know many Nigerians are already
saying that even Spain lost to Switzerland so what if they lost to Greece.
Many will say that even the mighty Argentina and France crashed out of the World
Cup before in the first round so why not Nigeria. Yet, others will say it is
just football; get over it. Nigeria fails to realize what just happened after
their defeat to Greece spiritually, politically, economically, and socially on
African soil with the entire world watching. The powers of the world have long
given up on Nigeria as the glory of the Black race, but the Black race held on
to it because of its population, resources, and human potential. They tried
giving the leadership to Ghana because of its history and culture, they tried
South Africa because of its White driven economy, Ghaddafi tried Libya because
of its Islam and Arab influence, but the Black race proudly resisted. The
European sports media is now pushing Ivory Coast because of its relative
stability and its football as a place of Black leadership and investment, and
Nigeria publicly opened its hands, placed them on its head, and gave up its
crown in the eyes of the entire world.
Many Black women, some of whom do not
care for football, around the world were at home today or were watching the
Nigerian game at their jobs. Many were praying for Nigeria to do Africa proud
at this World Cup because it is all they have for honor and respect as a people
on the world scene. Only the blind and the visionless think the World Cup is
just football. It has become the battle field were nations, peoples, cultures,
ideals, traditions, values, prejudices, and stereotypes are celebrated or
relegated. It is the biggest places where every nation and its people are
judged and evaluated at the same place, moment, and time. The big nations of
the world, including the United States where football is its 5th
sport, know that a successful outing at the FIFA World Cup means more global
respect, human admiration, economic development, corporate investments, easier
inter-continental outreach, and instant global acceptance as a trademark of
success. This is what Brazil, a poor country, has thrived on for 40 years and
is considered a second world country. Brazil has so much support from all
nations that no one wants to hear anything bad about Brazil for any reason.
Brazil is perceived as a nation of joy and celebration even outside of
football.
As a descendant of Nigeria and a
proud African, I accept the global insult from Nigeria on behalf of my children
for the last time. At a time when young African girls in kindergarten around
the world are crying to their parents for a White name, at a time where young
African boys in lower grade prefer White characters on TV to Blacks, at a time
when African parents globally are praying for something spectacular to give
their children the joy of embracing Africa at least half-heartedly, Nigeria
leaves Anichebe and Ikechukwu Uche at home for Kanu. Who was going to run at
the opponent’s defense at the World Cup? They drop Amodu, a Nigeria coach who
qualified Nigeria twice eight years apart for the World Cup and know the
players, for a White Lagerback, who neither knows the Nigerian players nor
qualified his native country of Sweden to the World Cup 2010.
This is the last time I will support
Nigeria in anything until I see a change in attitude. This is the last
embarrassment I will accept from this country. They cannot elect good leaders
with vision, they cannot develop their cities, they cannot build good schools
nor parks for their children, there are no constant power supply or stable
infrastructures, they cannot train Nigerian coaches for the world stage, they do
not have a descent football league, and now they cannot beat ordinary Greece.
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