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Jude Agada — “Agada One Touch”, The Dependable Defender….

Sep1

Some footballers are remembered for the trophies they won. Others for the players they helped produce. Jude Agada’s legacy encompasses both.

Born in 1965, Agada began playing football at an early age. As captain and Games Prefect of St. Joseph Secondary School, Awka-Etiti, he led the school to win the Idemili Local Government Cup in 1980 — a feat the school has yet to repeat.

After playing for Black Rocks and PRODA FC Enugu, Agada joined Rangers International FC Enugu in 1984. That same year, he was part of the Rangers team that won the National League, before representing the club in the African Cup of Champions Clubs.

By 1986, he had become captain of the Flying Antelopes, earning the admiration of Rangers supporters who fondly nicknamed him “Agada One Touch.” 💚

His impressive club performances earned him a call-up to Nigeria’s Green Eagles in 1987. He was part of the 1988 Seoul Olympic squad and played an important role in Nigeria’s qualification for AFCON 1990, scoring the crucial equaliser against Zimbabwe in Harare.

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JAY JAY OKOCHA: A True African Football Legend….

Aug23

Former Super Eagles Captain Austin Jay Jay Okocha need no introduction as far as football is concerned. He recently appeared on Mikel Obi’s Obi One Podcast where shared some of his interesting career stories in one of the most interesting episodes of the podcast so far. Towards the end of the interview, Mikel asked Okocha who he thinks is a better footballer between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Okocha went for Messi saying that the latter was born to play football and could get sick if he doesn’t play football. He however acknowledged that Ronaldo is a special player and a prolific goal scorer who is capable of scoring one million goals. Okocha said that some players are terrific goal scorers and mentioned Erling Haaland as one of them.

Okocha’s personal view of choosing Messi drew the irk of Ronaldo’s fans especially those from Nigeria. They desended on Okocha on social media raining all manner of abuses on him and asking what he achieved in his football career to be “disrespecting” Cristiano Ronaldo. Most of these fans did not see a prime Okocha playing football. Indeed Okocha has some descend records as a footballer and we are going to discuss them here.

Okocha first played for Nigeria in January/February 1993 during the African Youth Championship in Mauritius. Although the Flying Eagles failed to qualify for the U-21 World Cup having not progressed to the final of that Mauritius tourney, Okocha left no one in doubt about his footballing skills. Most commentators pronounced him as a player for the future and indeed a Super Eagles material.

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MICHAELY BIHINA: The Reason Cameroon Will Win WAFCON 2026….

Aug12

I’ll admit it: I underestimated the Indomitable Lionesses.

I didn’t pay much attention to Cameroon’s games at the ongoing WAFCON. After all, they did not originally qualify for the tournament but were drafted into the competition after CAF increased the number of participating teams.

Then Cameroon topped their group.

Still, I waved it off. I thought they had simply benefited from a relatively weak group, especially when compared to Nigeria’s group.

Then came the quarterfinal against Nigeria.

The Super Falcons were not at their best, but I still didn’t believe Cameroon could stop them.

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