OLOYE's Co-Defender at 3SC: Seun Roberts now in the US Army

[Toxicarrow]

[oloye]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

[Toxicarrow]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

Your partner in bone-crushing (Igbobi-like) tackles

[metalalloy]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

Your partner in bone-crushing (Igbobi-like) tackles

See poetic description of bone crushing..

[dhoney]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

Your partner in bone-crushing (Igbobi-like) tackles

See poetic description of bone crushing..

...During my jeun jeun days, this na one of those operation-sweep defenders you don`t want to play against in December period otherwise, you might end up with three options on Christmas day..stay back at home, wear Dansiki to church or forced to wear dark spectacles cos of black eyes...wicket guys

[Toxicarrow]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

Your partner in bone-crushing (Igbobi-like) tackles

See poetic description of bone crushing..

...During my jeun jeun days, this na one of those operation-sweep defenders you don`t want to play against in December period otherwise, you might end up with three options on Christmas day..stay back at home, wear Dansiki to church or forced to wear dark spectacles cos of black eyes...wicket guys

[oloye]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

Your partner in bone-crushing (Igbobi-like) tackles

See poetic description of bone crushing..

...During my jeun jeun days, this na one of those operation-sweep defenders you don`t want to play against in December period otherwise, you might end up with three options on Christmas day..stay back at home, wear Dansiki to church or forced to wear dark spectacles cos of black eyes...wicket guys

So you are one of those attackers i use to intercede for Seun or Amaral , a product and veteran of Oyo state principal's cup competition. As i said earlier dribble him to the left at your own peril. Damn i have seen some sweeping in my life, his own is like a lawn mower...even with weeping sore or kobo on his thighs, the left thigh ofcourse, Amaral will simply fold his shorts and say to the attackers...who is next! Pele dhoney, i can feel you, i saw so many others swept onto the raw tracks of Adamasingba, the Lord ne praised like you they lived to tell the story.

The day i saw Amaral in army uniform i was not surprised..that instinct to maim was inherent!

Toxicarrow ,if you talk to him dont believe anything he has to say about me..most will be exaggeration!

[Senator WIRES]

He would have become a General in Naija Army and probably retired after many years of performing active duties "pepper souping" at Rukuba Barracks.

[Celebrity]

Oloye what kind of stone age football did you play? Sweeping? God forbid bad thing! No wonder some of you never made it out of the local league. Imagine having a CV and writing "Best football skill-set: Sweeping". Oyibo will just say this one is a match to match red card waiting to happen.

[oloye]

Oloye what kind of stone age football did you play? Sweeping? God forbid bad thing! No wonder some of you never made it out of the local league. Imagine having a CV and writing "Best football skill-set: Sweeping". Oyibo will just say this one is a match to match red card waiting to happen.

Yeah stone age indeed..guess you never heard of Uli Stielike, Claudio Gentile, Taribo West, Terry Butcher, Buchwald, John Terry, Ramos and Pepe aghhh! some of the finest defenders that ever graced the game. Which kain celebrity you be sef

Sweeping was another word for sliding tackle, something few defenders do in Naija league because of the nature of the fields always hard and bald. Because it was not common players are caught off guard when it comes. A nice clean sliding tackle well timed while the ball is at the feet of the attacker produces a sweeping effect both the ball, the defender and the attacker go on a bob sleigh ride. Now if the grass is wet and on a rainy day..what a sweet ride..you measure the sweetness of the ride by the distance.

But on a dry dusty harmmattan season afternoon, you measure the sweetness of yoir sweeping by the amount of dust and how long it takes for the dust to settle, the size of the kobo on your thigh and the bruises on the poor attackers body. Sometimes there is the jara of watching the poor sod dust himself and spit out sand while trying to curse you. The more curses they spew out tells how effective your sweeping tackle was.

By the way you call it primitive, did you watch Liverpool v Westham, if you did not please go and watch the best tackle of the match, a sweeping sliding tackle that got all good defenders of the game drooling with delight. Loveren(what a defender) tackled the bandit Anthonio , it was such a beautiful sight to behold as both of them with the ball glided off the field like siamese twins. I think Anthonio got a souveirnir..a bruised elbow which he will be showing to his grand children proudly in years to come. Stone age..i dont think so.....

There was a time when attackers dribbling skills included skipping over sliding tackles, as a result you dont have to wait till the athletics season to watch good old hurdling skill on display, the best dribblers also knew how to hurdle , watching them skip past a sweeping tackle remains a joy to behold..sadly though, this is a skill many would never see again!

[leftee]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

I think I remember this dude. Was he one of Coach Gomez's boys?

[oloye]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

I think I remember this dude. Was he one of Coach Gomez's boys?

You are right..the original liberty boys!

[ojafranpa]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

I think I remember this dude. Was he one of Coach Gomez's boys?

You are right..the original liberty boys!

We love baba Gomez we are Gomez boys

[oloye]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

I think I remember this dude. Was he one of Coach Gomez's boys?

You are right..the original liberty boys!

We love baba Gomez we are Gomez boys

So you be liberty boy too? Oya authenticate yourself..name at least 6 names ...

[metalalloy]

Oloye what kind of stone age football did you play? Sweeping? God forbid bad thing! No wonder some of you never made it out of the local league. Imagine having a CV and writing "Best football skill-set: Sweeping". Oyibo will just say this one is a match to match red card waiting to happen.

Yeah stone age indeed..guess you never heard of Uli Stielike, Claudio Gentile, Taribo West, Terry Butcher, Buchwald, John Terry, Ramos and Pepe aghhh! some of the finest defenders that ever graced the game. Which kain celebrity you be sef

Sweeping was another word for sliding tackle, something few defenders do in Naija league because of the nature of the fields always hard and bald. Because it was not common players are caught off guard when it comes. A nice clean sliding tackle well timed while the ball is at the feet of the attacker produces a sweeping effect both the ball, the defender and the attacker go on a bob sleigh ride. Now if the grass is wet and on a rainy day..what a sweet ride..you measure the sweetness of the ride by the distance.

But on a dry dusty harmmattan season afternoon, you measure the sweetness of yoir sweeping by the amount of dust and how long it takes for the dust to settle, the size of the kobo on your thigh and the bruises on the poor attackers body. Sometimes there is the jara of watching the poor sod dust himself and spit out sand while trying to curse you. The more curses they spew out tells how effective your sweeping tackle was.

By the way you call it primitive, did you watch Liverpool v Westham, if you did not please go and watch the best tackle of the match, a sweeping sliding tackle that got all good defenders of the game drooling with delight. Loveren(what a defender) tackled the bandit Anthonio , it was such a beautiful sight to behold as both of them with the ball glided off the field like siamese twins. I think Anthonio got a souveirnir..a bruised elbow which he will be showing to his grand children proudly in years to come. Stone age..i dont think so.....

There was a time when attackers dribbling skills included skipping over sliding tackles, as a result you dont have to wait till the athletics season to watch good old hurdling skill on display, the best dribblers also knew how to hurdle , watching them skip past a sweeping tackle remains a joy to behold..sadly though, this is a skill many would never see again!!

messi still dey do am. The guy is one of the few who can still ride a tackle.

[dhoney]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

Your partner in bone-crushing (Igbobi-like) tackles

See poetic description of bone crushing..

...During my jeun jeun days, this na one of those operation-sweep defenders you don`t want to play against in December period otherwise, you might end up with three options on Christmas day..stay back at home, wear Dansiki to church or forced to wear dark spectacles cos of black eyes...wicket guys

So you are one of those attackers i use to intercede for Seun or Amaral , a product and veteran of Oyo state principal's cup competition. As i said earlier dribble him to the left at your own peril. Damn i have seen some sweeping in my life, his own is like a lawn mower...even with weeping sore or kobo on his thighs, the left thigh ofcourse, Amaral will simply fold his shorts and say to the attackers...who is next! Pele dhoney, i can feel you, i saw so many others swept onto the raw tracks of Adamasingba, the Lord ne praised like you they lived to tell the story.

The day i saw Amaral in army uniform i was not surprised..that instinct to maim was inherent!

Toxicarrow ,if you talk to him dont believe anything he has to say about me..most will be exaggeration!

Oloye...my name back in the days was Elege Iwosi ( Disgraceful dribbler) but I was taught a bitter lesson by Oni Johnson (#Sweeper for NItel Lagos) and Mike Sam of Calabar Rovers FC. Oni made sure I used one eye take do one Xmas in late 90s (the result of his elbow rendered the right side of my head paralysed -scary injury but I recovered). Mike Sam gave me the sweep of my life in a friendly match in Calabar few weeks before Xmas in early 2000, the monkey yansh was so much I had to sag my Jeans and under pant for the rest of the year.
But Oloye, its easier to dribble tall defenders like you o trust me, the only problem is when contesting for aerial balls, the striker might end up with convulsion, upper cuts and jabbing
Football dey sweet those days o

[dhoney]

Oloye what kind of stone age football did you play? Sweeping? God forbid bad thing! No wonder some of you never made it out of the local league. Imagine having a CV and writing "Best football skill-set: Sweeping". Oyibo will just say this one is a match to match red card waiting to happen.

Yeah stone age indeed..guess you never heard of Uli Stielike, Claudio Gentile, Taribo West, Terry Butcher, Buchwald, John Terry, Ramos and Pepe aghhh! some of the finest defenders that ever graced the game. Which kain celebrity you be sef

Sweeping was another word for sliding tackle, something few defenders do in Naija league because of the nature of the fields always hard and bald. Because it was not common players are caught off guard when it comes. A nice clean sliding tackle well timed while the ball is at the feet of the attacker produces a sweeping effect both the ball, the defender and the attacker go on a bob sleigh ride. Now if the grass is wet and on a rainy day..what a sweet ride..you measure the sweetness of the ride by the distance.

But on a dry dusty harmmattan season afternoon, you measure the sweetness of yoir sweeping by the amount of dust and how long it takes for the dust to settle, the size of the kobo on your thigh and the bruises on the poor attackers body. Sometimes there is the jara of watching the poor sod dust himself and spit out sand while trying to curse you. The more curses they spew out tells how effective your sweeping tackle was.

By the way you call it primitive, did you watch Liverpool v Westham, if you did not please go and watch the best tackle of the match, a sweeping sliding tackle that got all good defenders of the game drooling with delight. Loveren(what a defender) tackled the bandit Anthonio , it was such a beautiful sight to behold as both of them with the ball glided off the field like siamese twins. I think Anthonio got a souveirnir..a bruised elbow which he will be showing to his grand children proudly in years to come. Stone age..i dont think so.....

There was a time when attackers dribbling skills included skipping over sliding tackles, as a result you dont have to wait till the athletics season to watch good old hurdling skill on display, the best dribblers also knew how to hurdle , watching them skip past a sweeping tackle remains a joy to behold..sadly though, this is a skill many would never see again!

One thing I noticed about those sliding tackles of those days was that the defender rarely missed but when they missed, they could even end up with an injury.

[oloye]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

Your partner in bone-crushing (Igbobi-like) tackles

See poetic description of bone crushing..

...During my jeun jeun days, this na one of those operation-sweep defenders you don`t want to play against in December period otherwise, you might end up with three options on Christmas day..stay back at home, wear Dansiki to church or forced to wear dark spectacles cos of black eyes...wicket guys

So you are one of those attackers i use to intercede for Seun or Amaral , a product and veteran of Oyo state principal's cup competition. As i said earlier dribble him to the left at your own peril. Damn i have seen some sweeping in my life, his own is like a lawn mower...even with weeping sore or kobo on his thighs, the left thigh ofcourse, Amaral will simply fold his shorts and say to the attackers...who is next! Pele dhoney, i can feel you, i saw so many others swept onto the raw tracks of Adamasingba, the Lord ne praised like you they lived to tell the story.

The day i saw Amaral in army uniform i was not surprised..that instinct to maim was inherent!

Toxicarrow ,if you talk to him dont believe anything he has to say about me..most will be exaggeration!

Oloye...my name back in the days was Elege Iwosi ( Disgraceful dribbler) but I was taught a bitter lesson by Oni Johnson (#Sweeper for NItel Lagos) and Mike Sam of Calabar Rovers FC. Oni made sure I used one eye take do one Xmas in late 90s (the result of his elbow rendered the right side of my head paralysed -scary injury but I recovered). Mike Sam gave me the sweep of my life in a friendly match in Calabar few weeks before Xmas in early 2000, the monkey yansh was so much I had to sag my Jeans and under pant for the rest of the year.
But Oloye, its easier to dribble tall defenders like you o trust me, the only problem is when contesting for aerial balls, the striker might end up with convulsion, upper cuts and jabbing
Football dey sweet those days o

Elege Iwosi abi ....i know your type, just thank God say you survive. Na una dey dribble defenders making them look silly, come complain when the defender give you hangman or double barrell tackle.

[dhoney]

Amaral as we call him back on the day a very very wicked defender. If i say i slide people,this guy's own os special. He is left footed..dribble him to the right side ,but woe betide you if you go to his left, sometimes i weep for the poor attackers who do so out of ignorance...when Amaral sweeps you both the sand and the grass come off...i have not accounted for the poor striker oh..my love for the environment made my reach first for the poor soil and grass.

His overlapping was great...but his sweeping..hmm that is one for the memories

Your partner in bone-crushing (Igbobi-like) tackles

See poetic description of bone crushing..

...During my jeun jeun days, this na one of those operation-sweep defenders you don`t want to play against in December period otherwise, you might end up with three options on Christmas day..stay back at home, wear Dansiki to church or forced to wear dark spectacles cos of black eyes...wicket guys

So you are one of those attackers i use to intercede for Seun or Amaral , a product and veteran of Oyo state principal's cup competition. As i said earlier dribble him to the left at your own peril. Damn i have seen some sweeping in my life, his own is like a lawn mower...even with weeping sore or kobo on his thighs, the left thigh ofcourse, Amaral will simply fold his shorts and say to the attackers...who is next! Pele dhoney, i can feel you, i saw so many others swept onto the raw tracks of Adamasingba, the Lord ne praised like you they lived to tell the story.

The day i saw Amaral in army uniform i was not surprised..that instinct to maim was inherent!

Toxicarrow ,if you talk to him dont believe anything he has to say about me..most will be exaggeration!

Oloye...my name back in the days was Elege Iwosi ( Disgraceful dribbler) but I was taught a bitter lesson by Oni Johnson (#Sweeper for NItel Lagos) and Mike Sam of Calabar Rovers FC. Oni made sure I used one eye take do one Xmas in late 90s (the result of his elbow rendered the right side of my head paralysed -scary injury but I recovered). Mike Sam gave me the sweep of my life in a friendly match in Calabar few weeks before Xmas in early 2000, the monkey yansh was so much I had to sag my Jeans and under pant for the rest of the year.
But Oloye, its easier to dribble tall defenders like you o trust me, the only problem is when contesting for aerial balls, the striker might end up with convulsion, upper cuts and jabbing
Football dey sweet those days o

Elege Iwosi abi ....i know your type, just thank God say you survive. Na una dey dribble defenders making them look silly, come complain when the defender give you hangman or double barrell tackle.

[jette1]

Seriously what use is this stupid thread

[anointed]

This Oloye sef...the way he describes things needs to be investigated. You are too much.

[realtrouble]

From Super Eagles to Us Army, the Making of Major Patrick Seun Roberts

major seun robert

The Ibadan-born ex-player narrates his story:
“I would like to give glory to God for His infinite mercies and protection over me and my family. I am in the United States of America now and currently serving as a Logistics Officer in the United States Army,” Robert began.

“As a matter of fact, I was one of the three players that were promoted to the Super Eagles from Flying Eagles immediately after the ECOWAS Cup competition in 1990. The other two were Dotun Alatise and Ademola Johnson. In fact, I migrated to the US while in the Super Eagles camp with Clemens Westerhorf as Technical Adviser and Tunde Disu his assistant.
“But about a week before the Eagles’ match against Liberia, I was offered an admission and a four-year soccer scholarship to study at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, USA.
“I was approached by a scout after our semi-final match with Senegal during the ECOWAS Cup. The scout told me that he was representing some colleges in the United States. I started the process while in the Flying Eagles camp and completed it while I was in the Super Eagles camp, with the help of Emmanuel Akpan, who was already in the United States.
“Coincidentally, I also received another offer to play professional football for a club in Spain but I had to turn down the offer. It was an opportunity which was very difficult for me to forego, due to my flair for football back then.
“I left Nigeria to study in the US on September 4, 1990 and I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance in 1995 and a Master of Science degree in Economics, with concentration in Finance in 1997.”
Why then the sudden switch to an unfamiliar terrain?
“Upon completion of my graduate programme, I enlisted in the US Army as an Automated Logistical Specialist. I was later selected to attend the Officers Candidate School and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery Branch, on August 3, 2000.
“I was promoted to First Lieutenant while stationed in South Korea in 2002, and to Captain, during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
“In 2009, I was selected for a promotion to “Major” and simultaneously was also selected to attend the prestigious United States Army Command and General Staff College.
“It was while I was attending the CGSC that I actually got pinned (promoted) to Major. Upon graduation from CGSC, I was assigned to serve as the Battalion Executive Officer for a battalion that was forward- deployed to Iraq.
“In fact, I had just completed my second deployment to Iraq in July, 2011 before I reported to my current duty station in Germany. I have served in the Army for 15 years,” Robert added.
Interestingly, he never had the intention of enlisting into the Army but suddenly found himself in the colours of the US Army. But he admits that the love for football still lingers on.
He said, “I never thought of joining the army. My initial plan was to complete my first degree in the US and migrate to Europe to continue my football career. But one thing led to another and the rest is history.
“Of course I miss the game. I have an indomitable passion for football. As a matter of fact, I still play for fun every now and then.
“To some extent football and army are interrelated. They both require team work, selfless service, personal courage, and loyalty to one’s country or team. You also have to be able to make quick decisions and think outside the box too.”
Unlike now when parents encourage their wards to play football, Robert was part of the generation whose parents were mostly opposed to their children identifying with football.
“My parents were against me playing. I had to sneak out several times to play football during my secondary school years. Unfortunately, my father died before I could even start getting paid for playing football.
“I started playing football at the early age, while I was in primary school at Ebenezer Primary School in Ibadan. My football skill was raw at that level until I met late coach Abayomi Akande, popularly known as Gomez, who started polishing my football skill.”
He still remembers his time very vividly saying he enjoyed playing for a great team like 3SC. But he admits that some strikers gave him nightmares during the years the domestic league was at its competitive best.
“Honestly, I played for 3SC from 1987 to 1990 and I tremendously enjoyed playing alongside great players like Felix Owolabi, late Muda Lawal, Ogbein Fawole, Raymond King, Mutiu Adepoju, Tunde Odubola, Samuel Elijah, Layiwola Alabi, Kabiru Adejare and the team’s other great players.
“But I had a tough time playing against Bella Momoh and Dimeji Lawal. They were very mesmerizing,” he said.
He recounts his time in the domestic league saying, “There were lots of memorable moments but my best moments were during my time in the Super Eagles camp. I was at the peak of my career and was looking forward to playing in the 1994 World Cup and the 1996 Olympic Games.
“However, one of my worst moments that I can remember was on the opening day of the 1990 season. IICC was playing Enugu Rangers at the Adamasingba Stadium in Ibadan. I had a couple of chances, overlapping from the left flank, which I was unable to convert into goals to put IICC ahead. Unfortunately, the match ended in a 0-0 draw.”
He blames the decline of the country’s football on “poor management, consistent reliance of national coaches on Nigerians footballers abroad, which in my own opinion, will continue to cause deterioration and less attention in the local league. We must employ subject matter experts in football to manage the affairs of the football body.”
Robert wishes to return home one day with his family to contribute his quota to the country.
“I am married to a very beautiful and loving lady, former Miss Bola Abdul-Azeez, from Ilorin. She is a Business Administration graduate from the University of Maryland. We are blessed with children. My wife and I hope to live in Nigeria after I retire,” Robert sums up.
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Authors: ENO-ABASI SUNDAY
TANA AIYEJINA
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[nemi2002]

Oloye what kind of stone age football did you play? Sweeping? God forbid bad thing! No wonder some of you never made it out of the local league. Imagine having a CV and writing "Best football skill-set: Sweeping". Oyibo will just say this one is a match to match red card waiting to happen.

Yeah stone age indeed..guess you never heard of Uli Stielike, Claudio Gentile, Taribo West, Terry Butcher, Buchwald, John Terry, Ramos and Pepe aghhh! some of the finest defenders that ever graced the game. Which kain celebrity you be sef

Sweeping was another word for sliding tackle, something few defenders do in Naija league because of the nature of the fields always hard and bald. Because it was not common players are caught off guard when it comes. A nice clean sliding tackle well timed while the ball is at the feet of the attacker produces a sweeping effect both the ball, the defender and the attacker go on a bob sleigh ride. Now if the grass is wet and on a rainy day..what a sweet ride..you measure the sweetness of the ride by the distance.

But on a dry dusty harmmattan season afternoon, you measure the sweetness of yoir sweeping by the amount of dust and how long it takes for the dust to settle, the size of the kobo on your thigh and the bruises on the poor attackers body. Sometimes there is the jara of watching the poor sod dust himself and spit out sand while trying to curse you. The more curses they spew out tells how effective your sweeping tackle was.

By the way you call it primitive, did you watch Liverpool v Westham, if you did not please go and watch the best tackle of the match, a sweeping sliding tackle that got all good defenders of the game drooling with delight. Loveren(what a defender) tackled the bandit Anthonio , it was such a beautiful sight to behold as both of them with the ball glided off the field like siamese twins. I think Anthonio got a souveirnir..a bruised elbow which he will be showing to his grand children proudly in years to come. Stone age..i dont think so.....

There was a time when attackers dribbling skills included skipping over sliding tackles, as a result you dont have to wait till the athletics season to watch good old hurdling skill on display, the best dribblers also knew how to hurdle , watching them skip past a sweeping tackle remains a joy to behold..sadly though, this is a skill many would never see again!

That tackle sweet no bi small.....