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Coaches Express Mixed Feelings
Sports coaches in Nigeria have expressed mixed feelings on Blessing Okagbare’s ability or otherwise to maintain her winning streak on the national, continental and global tracks, after getting married to Igho Otegheri on November 8.
Some of the coaches said Blessing should be encouraged to do better while others felt married life would affect her performance.
A Basketball Coach, Thomas Wallace, said the most important thing was for the athlete to remain focused and not to be bothered about her marital status.
“The most important thing for her is to remain focused and to have the right coach who can develop programmes and divide it into different phases for her.
“It is a team effort, not just for the athlete, but for the coach, for her husband and for the family to be able to work together for a common goal.
“ It is not something difficult, but it must be a team effort; it will take a lot of efforts on her side now that she is married and possibly going to have a child,’’ Wallace said.
He, however, said that there should be developmental programmes to nurture upcoming athletes, instead of depending on the successful ones alone.
A Handball Coach, David Emmanuel, said that although Nigeria was not a conducive environment for married athletes to perform better than they had been doing, he was convinced that Okagbare would perform better.
“Based on my experience, I believe she can do it and I believe she will even perform better now.
“She will still be able to perform if we handle things the way they are done across the world.
“But due to the nature of the society we are in this country, we have the problem of whenever a lady is married, she has become somebody’s property, nobody wants to help her or look at her direction.
“I was at the Handball African Cup of Nations sometime in January and the lady that was the Most Valuable Player at the tournament was nursing a baby at that time.
 “But we have a problem here in Nigeria that we neglect married women,’’ Emmanuel said.
A Football Coach, Ifeanyi Sammy, said that married life would affect Okagbare psychologically and emotionally.
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-Urges ‘Da Bull’ To Resurrect Career
Former national team coach, Fanny Iyakhere Amun has described as a welcome development that chances given Super Eagles assistant coach, Daniel ‘Da Bull’ Amokachi to handle the squad for a couple of international friendlies at the start of next year.
While making his views known on the report that emanated from Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the acclaimed ‘Transformer of Talents’ said the opportunity has arrived for Amokachi to revive his coaching career.
Amokachi’s coaching duties nosedived after he failed to qualify the home-based national team for the first Championship of African Nations (CHAN) in a qualifier against lowly Niger Republic, but he will now lead the Eagles in international friendlies against Mali and Cote d’Ivoire to once again prove his coaching competence.
Amun, who guided the Golden Eaglets to victory at Japan ’93 FIFA World Cup, stated that God will give the present NFF board the wisdom to settle the issues still lingering with Stephen Keshi, but said seeing Amokachi take charge is also a move in the right direction.
“Amokachi is a respected personality in the team as well having played diligently during his days and been around the team for a while as an assistant coach.
“Weeding off completely the makeup of the technical crew of the national team is not always needed. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a golden opportunity for him to prove himself as the leader of the team and I wish him all the best,” said the former NFF general-secretary.

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Under-23 national team coach, Samson Siasia has disclosed that Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have secured four matches against Egypt’s squad, in what has been described as a quadruple of international friendlies against the Olympic Pharaohs.
The first game will take place in Nigeria on the 15th of January and the 2nd game on the 17th of January while the Dream Team VI will take on their Egyptian counterparts in Egypt on the 20th and 22nd‎.
Siasia has also commended the board of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for arranging top grade friendly games for the team as they prepare for the qualifiers in February 2015.
The U-23 coach
He added that the team will then depart for Turkey for another round of intensive training and playing tour, while he is proposing that they depart from Turkey to Dubai then Malta for more top grade friendly games before returning to Nigeria on the 7th of February 2015 to prepare for its first game against Gabon in an All Africa Games qualifier.
According to the media officer of the Dream Team, Timi Ebikagboro, the team which will be going on break on the 21at of December will reconvene on the 4th of January 2015 and training will commence on the 5th of January.

1) Algeria
2) Tunisia
3) Ivory Coast
4) Senegal
5) Ghana
6) Guinea
7) Cape Verde Islands
8) Cameroon
9) Nigeria
10) Zambia
 
who do you think actually deserves the number 0ne position?

-IK Uche Second, Uzoenyi Third
Another angle has been added to the aura and followership generated by Super Eagles incumbent head coach,  Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, as latest statistics have revealed that he is the Nigerian sports star with the largest hits on globally renowned internet search website, Google.
While Keshi is listed number one among Nigerian sports stars that are followed across the world on Google, the player with whom the coach had a long falling out for the better part of the outgoing year, Villarreal of Spain striker, Ikechukwu Uche is rated number two.
Third place on the Google followership for Nigeriuan sports stars is Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa winger, Chrisantus Ejike Uzoenyi, whose exploits in 2014 included a most valuable player award at the Championship of African Nations (CHAN) in the same country he now plies his trade, as well as a last minute inclusion in the Nigerian World Cup squad due to an injury copped by Elderson Uwa Echiejile.
However, the biggest spotlight is on the gaffer that is most times called ‘Big Boss,’ whose name flooded all major tabloids in the country in the year, though many critics have since been calling for his removal, since his failure to qualify the Eagles to next year’s Africa Cup of Nations.
That clamour, though, has boosted the internet buzz for Keshi, who has shown how contentious he is in the country by topping the list of most searched sports people for the year ending, according to “Google.’’
Since he first resigned following his historic capture of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations title in South Africa, Keshi has become a spiky issue and a renowned name in Nigeria.
At once he is the best thing to have happened to Nigerian football since Clemens Westerhof, at other times he becomes the most criticized man on the continent.
However, inability to manage properly the team’s strength due to his limited technical know-how (cue the fact that Keshi made the least number of substitutions among all the coaches) and his controversial choice of players to the World Cup among many others, hampered the success of the side as it failed to once again shatter the Round of 16 glass ceiling in Brasilia.
The full list of Google’s 2014 most searched Nigerian sports personalities has: 1. Stephen Keshi, 2. Ikechukwu Uche, 3. Ejike Uzoenyi, 4. Musa Yahaya, 5. Umar Zango, 6. Vincent Enyeama, 7. Blessing Okagbare, 8. Daniel Amokachi, 9. Rabiu Ali, 10. Sone Aluko.http://negroidhaven.blogspot.com/search/label/Sports?&max-results=

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