Perspective from Sport

Hello everyone, I believe we are all rearing to go now. Believe it or not the World Cup is getting closer, it seems just like yesterday when Spain created history 4 years ago. That is why we have to do or carry out our personal plans within a reasonable time frame. A verse I like in the bible clearly illustrates this and I quote "Teach us to number our days".  Anyway back to the real issue, every team's list have been submitted to meet FIFA's deadline of the 16th of May 2014 .This week, I will continue with the breakdown of the Nigerian National Provisional Team List. Last week we looked at the Goalkeepers and Defenders. We will look at the Midfield Department now. John Mikel Obi (Chelsea)England The most high profiled  Nigerian player in the entire squad. He has always  been in the limelight since his controversial move to Chelsea. A very good central midfield, with good vision and crisp passes. Mikel has endured a torrid time among the Nigerian football fa

Hello everyone,I have not posted for while but I am back now with a bang. After the twist and turn witnessed in the tops leagues in Europe, attention would now shift  turned to World Cup,which is one of the biggest Sporting event in the World.All the national teams are expected to submit there provisional list by the 16th of May,2014 - some teams have already put their provisional list forward - the 2 other teams in Nigeria's group have put their provisional list together i.e Iran and Bosnia & Herzegovina.  In fact Brazil has made the boldest move by name their 23 squad to the World Cup which they will be host in less than a month time.But back to what concern me and majority of Nigerians, the Super Eagles Manager Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has named 30 provisional squad which would be trimmed down to the final 23 to be submitted to FIFA by 2nd of June 2014. As usual, there were several deliberations between Keshi's  technical crew and the Technical Committee of the Nigeria