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Monday, August 25, 2014

2014 FIFA World Cups

The 2014 FIFA World took place in Brazil from June to July 13 . What lessons did Nigeria learn from our not very good performance? We lacked proper formation and team work in that match. It seems that each player was trying hard to be the goal scorer and the whole thing ended up in the lacklustre performance. But it is important for us to learn fromhistory against future events. We have a formidable football team in Nigeria. What we need is artistic approach to the issue. Team work is one of the artistic approach we should use in future football matches so as to maintain our leading position in world football. Again we must note that a miss is as good as a mile.Again nearly does not kill a bed. Again it is not over until it is over. These are the fundamental lessons our players should learn to put into practice in future encounters. Let me give us a practical example referring to what happened in 1994 World cup. In that year the slot fell on Nigeria and Italy to play in the semi-finals. Nigerian team played aggressively and scored the first goal and defended that goal until towards the end of the match. The Italian team were making frantic efforts to equalize because the score line has been 1-0 against the Italians. And Nigerian team maintained that position until the 88th minute. At this point the Nigerian team relaxed in their defense thinking that it is over. They have forgotten that it is not over until is over. Again resilience comes into play here. It will take a determined heart to hold tenaciously to your position and and defense until it is over. In that match the Italians held to their defense and determination to equalize and they achieved it. So I want us to learn the above lessons of resilience and determination in all our athletic and football outings. This year's world cup is dominated by the Germans defeating Argentina 1-0 in Brazil on July 13 and defeating Nigeria 1-0 in FIFA under 20 Female world cup in Canada on August 24.

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