IT WOULD SEEM THAT TO PLAY FOR A FOOTBALL TEAM located outside of one’s own country OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY ARE IMPORTANT .. going by observations — historical and current – pertaining to NIGERIA
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persons who are old enough in Nigeria may remember names like
CHRISTIAN CHUKWU
EMMANUEL OKALA
ALOYSIUS ATUEGWU
THE ATUEGWU BROTHERS
DOMBRAYE
HARUNA ILERIKA
MUDASHIRU LAWAL
SAM OJEBODE
amongst other names
of
great,
superb,
highly talented,
outstanding
footballers
that played FOOTBALL IN NIGERIA
in the circa 1970 A.D to 1980 A.D period
and thereabouts.
these folks were superb footballers
and
at a guess
if
the OPPORTUNITY
had been available to them
and/or
the
ACCESS TO THE OPPORTUNITY
had been available to them
to play their football
for example
in
the
ENGLAND / ENGLISH F.A PREMIER LEAGUE
or
the
ITALY / ITALIA SERIE A
it is a fair guess that
they would have performed creditably.
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IT WOULD SEEM THAT TO PLAY FOR A FOOTBALL TEAM located outside of one’s own country OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY ARE IMPORTANT .. going by observations — historical and current – pertaining to NIGERIA
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this guess is
based
on the observation
that
younger generations of footballers
i.e
subsequent generations of footballers
who were / are generally perceived
by
the general Nigeria public
to have about
the same levels of
skill, talent and ability
as this older generation of footballers
( .. or
depending the individual’s perception
less level of skill, talent and ability
or
more level of skill, talent and ability .. )
whose trajectory in life
provided them
the OPPORTUNITY
and
the ACCESS TO THE OPPORTUNITY
to move from NIGERIA here
where they have / had been playing football
to
Good Club-Sides
in
EUROPE, etc
performed creditably
in these clubs.
examples,
( .. to name a few among
these subsequent generations of players
who had the opportunity to play football outside Nigeria .. )
include
Jay Jay Okocha
Kanu Nwankwo
Taribo West
Samson Siasia
Finidi George
Justice Christopher
Obafemi Martins
etc, etc, etc
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