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jette1 wrote:wao!!! See delivery of emotion at the end. I directory experienced just a little tiny bit of the infrastructure management he talked about when as a high school kid I travelled with rangers supporters club from enugu to ibadan. one of my memorable life experiences
is this a current documentary and how old was this guy in the 70s. he comes across as an insider eye witness.
cic na you be dis

cic old boy wrote:Very powerful stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpCMNo ... e=youtu.be[/video]

jette1 wrote:wao!!! See delivery of emotion at the end. I directory experienced just a little tiny bit of the infrastructure management he talked about when as a high school kid I travelled with rangers supporters club from enugu to ibadan. one of my memorable life experiences
is this a current documentary and how old was this guy in the 70s. he comes across as an insider eye witness.
cic na you be dis

cic old boy wrote:Very powerful stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpCMNo ... e=youtu.be[/video]

ukwala wrote:

cic old boy wrote:Very powerful stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpCMNo ... e=youtu.be[/video]

Excellent stuff . Missing that 1975 Africa Champions cup remains my biggest pain. I will never forgive the NFA under Sunday Dankaro for refusing Rangers' request to play the game in Enugu. Why not give your reps the best chance of success? It appeared that the civil war was still going on in some people's minds.

Dammy wrote:

ukwala wrote:

cic old boy wrote:Very powerful stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpCMNo ... e=youtu.be[/video]

Excellent stuff . Missing that 1975 Africa Champions cup remains my biggest pain. I will never forgive the NFA under Sunday Dankaro for refusing Rangers' request to play the game in Enugu. Why not give your reps the best chance of success? It appeared that the civil war was still going on in some people's minds.

I still don't understand why that match against Hafia was played in Lagos. It was very painful as that was the first time Rangers would lose a match that I was aware of. I thought they were invincible.

ukwala wrote:

Dammy wrote:

ukwala wrote:

cic old boy wrote:Very powerful stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpCMNo ... e=youtu.be[/video]

Excellent stuff . Missing that 1975 Africa Champions cup remains my biggest pain. I will never forgive the NFA under Sunday Dankaro for refusing Rangers' request to play the game in Enugu. Why not give your reps the best chance of success? It appeared that the civil war was still going on in some people's minds.

I still don't understand why that match against Hafia was played in Lagos. It was very painful as that was the first time Rangers would lose a match that I was aware of. I thought they were invincible.

The first game Rangers lost in the entire competition was in the first leg semi final away to Mehalla of Egypt 1-3. In the return leg, Rangers took them to Enugu and beat them 3-0 to qualify for the final (Mehalla saw Wahala in Enugu). Having lost 0-1 away to Hafia of Guinea in the first leg of the final, Rangers expected to take them to Enugu and do a ‘Mehalla’ on them. Alas, the NFA declined Rangers request and insisted the match be played in Lagos. The perception in Enugu then was that the NFA and perhaps higher powers did not want Rangers to win and Rangers went to Lagos dejected and psychologically defeated. That was by far Nigeria’s best chance of winning the African cup of champions until Enyimba won it in 2003.

Dammy wrote:

ukwala wrote:

Dammy wrote:

ukwala wrote:

cic old boy wrote:Very powerful stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpCMNo ... e=youtu.be[/video]

Excellent stuff . Missing that 1975 Africa Champions cup remains my biggest pain. I will never forgive the NFA under Sunday Dankaro for refusing Rangers' request to play the game in Enugu. Why not give your reps the best chance of success? It appeared that the civil war was still going on in some people's minds.

I still don't understand why that match against Hafia was played in Lagos. It was very painful as that was the first time Rangers would lose a match that I was aware of. I thought they were invincible.

The first game Rangers lost in the entire competition was in the first leg semi final away to Mehalla of Egypt 1-3. In the return leg, Rangers took them to Enugu and beat them 3-0 to qualify for the final (Mehalla saw Wahala in Enugu). Having lost 0-1 away to Hafia of Guinea in the first leg of the final, Rangers expected to take them to Enugu and do a ‘Mehalla’ on them. Alas, the NFA declined Rangers request and insisted the match be played in Lagos. The perception in Enugu then was that the NFA and perhaps higher powers did not want Rangers to win and Rangers went to Lagos dejected and psychologically defeated. That was by far Nigeria’s best chance of winning the African cup of champions until Enyimba won it in 2003.

Could the decision have to do with CAF regulations about playing the final in the capital? Shooting Stars played the final of the African Cup winners cup against Tonnere Kalala in Lagos the following year instead of Ibadan.

ukwala wrote:. The perception in Enugu then was that the NFA and perhaps higher powers did not want Rangers to win and Rangers went to Lagos dejected and psychologically defeated. That was by far Nigeria’s best chance of winning the African cup of champions until Enyimba won it in 2003.

Aswani wrote:

ukwala wrote:. The perception in Enugu then was that the NFA and perhaps higher powers did not want Rangers to win and Rangers went to Lagos dejected and psychologically defeated. That was by far Nigeria’s best chance of winning the African cup of champions until Enyimba won it in 2003.

I am going to disagree with you on this Ukwala, these are seasoned professionals about to play an African Champions Cup final.

I think, if anything, they would have wanted to stick it to the NFA or whoever it was that changed the venue.

Sir V wrote:

jette1 wrote:wao!!! See delivery of emotion at the end. I directory experienced just a little tiny bit of the infrastructure management he talked about when as a high school kid I travelled with rangers supporters club from enugu to ibadan. one of my memorable life experiences
is this a current documentary and how old was this guy in the 70s. he comes across as an insider eye witness.
cic na you be dis

He is in his late 50s. ED and I are in the same facebook group,and was school mate with a friend of mine.

jette1 wrote:

Sir V wrote:

jette1 wrote:wao!!! See delivery of emotion at the end. I directory experienced just a little tiny bit of the infrastructure management he talked about when as a high school kid I travelled with rangers supporters club from enugu to ibadan. one of my memorable life experiences
is this a current documentary and how old was this guy in the 70s. he comes across as an insider eye witness.
cic na you be dis

He is in his late 50s. ED and I are in the same facebook group,and was school mate with a friend of mine.

He delivered the events as an insider and as a witness with direct experience would which prompted my question on how old he could have been during the events. Not how how old he is now. This is how you guys flunk jamb and waec

Enugu II wrote:

Aswani wrote:

ukwala wrote:. The perception in Enugu then was that the NFA and perhaps higher powers did not want Rangers to win and Rangers went to Lagos dejected and psychologically defeated. That was by far Nigeria’s best chance of winning the African cup of champions until Enyimba won it in 2003.

I am going to disagree with you on this Ukwala, these are seasoned professionals about to play an African Champions Cup final.

I think, if anything, they would have wanted to stick it to the NFA or whoever it was that changed the venue.

Aswani,

Seasoned professionals or not, they remain HUMAN BEINGS and susceptible to similar effects. They are not robots. Here, you are believing you have a very important match in a friendly venue in Enugu and training for it.

As far as I remember, the change of venue came way too late and the team had to travel quite late to Lagos. The psychological effect of that had to be enormous, particularly in a crucial game against a team that was arguably the most dreaded in Africa at the time.

Bros, never underrate such odds.

Ezeani was flown back from America for the final of the African Cup of Champion Clubs against Hafia FC of Guinea in December 1975 after Rangers had lost the first leg by 1-0 in Conakry, Guinea. The Rangers team was holed up in Enugu, hoping to play the Hafia team in the Coal City, when the then Nigeria Football Association (NFA) suddenly asked the team to proceed to Lagos a day to the encounter. There was even talk of Rangers boycotting the game when the new military governor Lt-Col. Atom Kpera who had just replaced the more charismatic Col. Anthony Aboki Ochefu ordered the team to depart to Lagos despite club chairman Jim Nwobodo's protestations. In a match played in such controversial circumstances, Rangers players could not believe their eyes when the referee disallowed the long throws of Nwabueze Nwankwo with which they had planned to dislodge the passing game of Hafia of Guinea. Ezeani and his mates tried as best they could in the oppressive circumstances, losing 2-1 in the end.

Ayo Akinfe wrote:I swear Bendel Insurance are wicked! Agbonifo, Egbareva and Ogu, wetin una do Rangers for National Stadium that day to end their revolution no good oooo!

The Rangers team was a victim of fatigue resulting from undue overstretching by the NFA which subjected them to four gruelling matches within ten days. The long line of matches claimed Nwokocha who played Bendel half-fit. According to the commentator, Adewale Odunsi, skipper Chukwu was suffering from a groin injury, while Ameisimaka had not fully recovered from a previous injury. The physical strain was unbearable.

Perhaps, more devastating was the exodus mid-season of many Rangers players to the United States. Among those who left were: Nwachukwu Onyekwelu, Charles Adimora, Nnamdi Anyafor, Ignatius Ilechukwu and Okey Onwuekwe. This coupled with the abrupt departure of the team's Yugoslav coach, Zuti Branco created a vacuum which stand-in coach, Bob Odume could not fill.

ukwala wrote:

jette1 wrote:

Sir V wrote:

jette1 wrote:wao!!! See delivery of emotion at the end. I directory experienced just a little tiny bit of the infrastructure management he talked about when as a high school kid I travelled with rangers supporters club from enugu to ibadan. one of my memorable life experiences
is this a current documentary and how old was this guy in the 70s. he comes across as an insider eye witness.
cic na you be dis

He is in his late 50s. ED and I are in the same facebook group,and was school mate with a friend of mine.

He delivered the events as an insider and as a witness with direct experience would which prompted my question on how old he could have been during the events. Not how how old he is now. This is how you guys flunk jamb and waec

If you know 2 out of 3 variables in an equation, surely you can derive the 3rd, no?