Nigeria’s Flamingos have made history. 🇳🇬🏆
But here’s a question worth asking:
After all the celebrations, what happens to these young girls?
Will we continue investing in their development, give them better opportunities and create a system that helps them reach the highest level?
Or will we celebrate today and forget tomorrow?
Winning the trophy is beautiful. Building on that success is even more important.
#U17WWC
Nigeria’s Flamingos have made history. 🇳🇬🏆
But here’s a question worth asking:
After all the celebrations, what happens to these young girls?
Will we continue investing in their development, give them better opportunities and create a system that helps them reach the highest level?
Or will we celebrate today and forget tomorrow?
Winning the trophy is beautiful. Building on that success is even more important.
#U17WWC
Unpopular opinion 🤔
I’ve been thinking about something concerning university sports.
We organise competitions, discover talented players, celebrate winners and move on to the next tournament.
But what happens to those talents afterwards?
How many students get opportunities to develop their skills beyond inter-faculty competitions? How many get access to proper facilities, consistent training and exposure to bigger platforms?
University sports should be more than just organising tournaments and handing out trophies.
There should be a system that helps talented students grow, improve and take their sporting careers further.
We have the talent. Are we creating enough opportunities for it?
What’s your take?
Unpopular opinion 🤔
I’ve been thinking about something concerning university sports.
We organise competitions, discover talented players, celebrate winners and move on to the next tournament.
But what happens to those talents afterwards?
How many students get opportunities to develop their skills beyond inter-faculty competitions? How many get access to proper facilities, consistent training and exposure to bigger platforms?
University sports should be more than just organising tournaments and handing out trophies.
There should be a system that helps talented students grow, improve and take their sporting careers further.
We have the talent. Are we creating enough opportunities for it?
What’s your take?
I’ve been thinking about the Jesús Owono and Jesús de Miguel incident, and honestly, it’s heartbreaking.
A 30-year-old footballer has lost his life doing something he loves. A family has lost a loved one, teammates have lost a colleague, and an entire football community is mourning.
But there’s another side to this tragedy that I think we need to be careful about.
Jesús Owono is suddenly at the centre of a storm. He’s being judged, insulted and, in some quarters, treated as though the intention was to take another man’s life.
Let’s be clear: accountability matters. The circumstances surrounding that challenge deserve proper investigation, and if there was negligence, it should be addressed accordingly.
But there’s a difference between demanding accountability and deciding someone’s guilt before the facts have been established.
We sometimes forget that footballers are human beings too. Imagine being involved in a moment that ends another person’s life. Whatever the eventual findings, that’s an incredibly heavy reality to live with.
A man has died. Another man’s life has been thrown into circumstances he may never fully recover from. And two families are now dealing with something unimaginable.
We can demand answers without losing our humanity.
We can mourn Jesús de Miguel without turning Jesús Owono into a target for online hatred.
Social media has made it incredibly easy to become judge, jury and executioner.
Perhaps, in moments like this, the most human thing we can do is show compassion, allow the investigation to take its course and remember that behind every trending topic are real people.
Rest in peace, Jesús de Miguel. #owono
It is completely unfair to tag that goalkeeper a bad person, we see tackles like this everytime in football is rather unfortunate that Jesus lost his life from it...
Please let's not victimize the keeper, he will be living with a lot of guilt already 💔
It is completely unfair to tag that goalkeeper a bad person, we see tackles like this everytime in football is rather unfortunate that Jesus lost his life from it...
Please let's not victimize the keeper, he will be living with a lot of guilt already 💔
Another day around the game, doing what I enjoy. From the little conversations to giving instructions and sharing moments with the boys, it’s always a good feeling being part of the process.
More moments like this, more lessons, and more memories along the way. ⚽️❤️
#unilorin