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Flashback: How Kanu and Finidi won Champions League with Ajax Amsterdam 25 years ago AJAX Amsterdam’s victory over AC Milan in the 1995 European Champions Cup final on May 24 owed much to the tremendous contribution of its Nigerian stars, Finidi George and Nwankwo Kanu. The duo, already Dutch league champions with Ajax, made history …
DR. EMMANUEL SUNNY OJEAGBASE @ 70: Soldier, Journalist, Publisher, Entrepreneur, Author, Life Coach and Humanist By Dr. Mumini Alao, Group Managing Director, Complete Communications Limited Dr. Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase, Executive Chairman of Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspapers, is your quintessential self-made man who attained success by the bootstraps, dint of hard work …
THE ROAD TO COMPLETE SPORTS By Dr. Mumini Alao On December 18, 2020, Nigeria’s first all-sports daily newspaper Complete Sports, celebrated its 25th anniversary, having been established on December 18, 1995. In this historical narrative, the group managing director, Dr. Mumini Alao, takes us down memory lane on the birth of the newspaper. Complete Sports …
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Stephen Okechukwu Keshi was a part of Nigeria’s teams to five AFCON competitions as a player and another three in a coach capacity. In 2013, he led the Super Eagles to victory in South Africa to become the second person ever to captain and coach an AFCON-winning team. In this throwback interview, you can listen …
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Interview by Mumini Alao (December 1993) This is the first story where Rashidi Yekini was called GOALSFATHER. The nickname was coined by the reporter, MUMINI ALAO, as headline of an interview published in the December 1993 edition of COMPLETE FOOTBALL magazine. BBC Africa Radio programme Fast Track promoted the iconic nickname and it became accepted …
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The Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire in 1984 was about one year away when I took over the national team of Nigeria towards the end of January 1983. But almost immediately after I resumed, we went into the preliminaries for two major competitions – the 1984 Olympics and the Nations Cup. We got …
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SAM OKWARAJI: THE DAY FOOTBALL DIED Complete Football editorial on Okwaraji’s death in 1989 The transition of Samuel Okwaraji (1964–1989), the Nigerian wizard of ‘distributive football’ will go down in our sports history as a shocking event. Shocking for his family and his friends, shocking for all football lovers who saw him play for the first …
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(Complete Football, October ’91, page 22) FIRST achievers are never forgotten in history. Chief Boniface Jimoh Oni (a.k.a ‘Bee Jay Ooh) can never be forgotten in the history of Nigerian football. And the reason is simple: this was a man with the enviable record as the First FIFA-Graded Nigerian referee; the man who directed proceedings …
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How Nigeria won Tunisia ’94 AFCON to fulfill Stephen Keshi’s prediction (CF, April 1994 edition) Title: HARD ROAD TO VICTORY By Complete Football Advertisement The giant electronic scoreboard at 27-year-old El-Menzah Stadium in Tunis proclaimed it, boldly and gloriously – CHAMPION, NIGERIA! Down below on the victory dais, a bunch of young Nigerians, …
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HOW SAM OKWARAJI HIT THE LIMELIGHT -BY FORMER NFA CHAIRMAN, JOHN OBAKPOLOR Sam Okwaraji emerged virtually from the blues to stamp his presence in the Nigerian soccer scene in 1987, prior to which time, football fans had hardly ever heard his name. Former NFA Chairman Group Captain John Obakpopor remembers how he “discovered” the midfield wizard… “WHEN I …
