You may not know both names above, but read this to the end.The reality of missing out on my four-year football pilgrimage is just settling in. The pain is deep. Apart from the thrill of attending the greatest single sports event in the world, I also make a good living from reporting the Green Eagles of Nigeria when they are part of the global party. I will miss both this time.
So, here I am, still dazed, lamenting the huge loss I am suffering by sitting out the World Cup in Wasimi, and not Qatar. Then, one Sepp Blatter, comes and adds insult to our injury. The former FIFA President is reported to have said, last week, that ‘Qatar 2022 is a mistake’. A mistake? How? Through my conversation with him I intend to tell a little about him and also the incredulous story of another footballer that very few Nigerians have ever heard of.
He tells me, also, that his father is a full-blooded Nigerian, a Hausa man from Birnin Kebbi, once under the Kano Emirate but now in Kebbi State. That’s where Ibrahim’s fluent Hausa language comes from. Ibrahim and I always converse in the language. There was a public outcry and protests on the streets in Ghana. How could the coach have dropped one of the best players in the national team for what they consider a flimsy habit that did not negatively affect his performance on the field of play. He had won several matches under the ‘influence’ for Ghana. So, what was the coach’s problem?
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