Jide Michael Olugbodi
Licensed FIFA Agent
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As curtains draw on the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, football emerged victorious again…. ‘Die Maanschaft hat wieder gewonnen!’ Again, it shows that you can win games with the best player but you need the BEST TEAM to win tournaments! The BEST TEAM WON The BEST PLAYER LOST Is this “THE FOOTBALL” for the next…
There are only nine more days to go and the underdogs are ahead! Were the EPL to end today, Leicester FC would be the Champions of England for the 2015/16 season. Well deserved? Thoroughly deserved? Or lucky? I would say that wherever you find your team on the league table today is exactly where they…
In 1967, Edson Arantes Des Nascimento, popularly known as Pele flew to Nigeria and stopped the Nigerian civil war for 48hrs. The two factions involved in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city and war bowed to the…
It’s curtains for Rafa Benitez at Real Madrid, seven months into his tenure at the Bernabeu. While his appointment was a surprise several months ago, his dismissal on the other hand has been a joke. A scheduled press conference by Florentino Perez that had the press waiting for half hour, ended with a two minute…
LEICESTER DEFY THE BIG BOYS WITH ATTITUDE AND WORK RATE With nine games to go last season, Leicester City FC was three points adrift and rooted to the bottom of the league table, down and out. As Leicester City stared at relegation with eight games to go, something changed at the football club: team and…
PEDRO-AD TO SUCCESS I am actually in the States at the moment, so with the difference in time zones, I only managed to watch a couple of EPL games this weekend and saw just a few goals from some other matches. If there was any lesson we learned last season, it is that whenever Chelsea…
It appears that Diego Costa will be costing his Chelsea even more over the next few weeks. I said it in my write up a few weeks ago that all I saw in him then was a sumo Wrestler or championship boxer, as opposed to a striker when I look in his eyes and his performances…
With Manchester City, United, Arsenal and Chelsea winning this weekend, all eyes now turn to the UEFA Champions League. As we reach the halfway through the group games, there are no easy games for the British contingent, as they all search for Champions League success. season. With Italy threatening English teams in the Champions League…
THIS UNITED LOOK DISJOINTED As United crumbled against Swansea on Sunday, I kept wondering how they managed to take nothing from a game in which they had so much ball possession. Pass, pass, pass, and pass again but no consistent threats in the opponent’s penalty box: Mata on the wings, Rooney as a lone striker,…
Lionel Messi seems to be out, but for how long? What effect would this have on the balloon d’Or this year? For as long as the little magician is out, football of course is going to be the loser So with so many injuries at different top clubs and with national team players, are we…