In case of Sports in Nigeria?
Besides the importance of sport in human history, sport to create employment opportunities, accumulated a big fan and bring people of different backgrounds – such as athletes participate in various games, with the spectators see and administrators to run together.
What sports to unify the nation in wins, if the passion is felt in the loss. Many risk their property, money and even their spouses or other valuables thanks to Paris, because of his enthusiasm for the sport.
In short, sport is a real business, and seemed to spread throughout the world, the error reached in Nigeria early 50s. Then, the sport began as Nigeria, a simple exercise of the colonial masters, but later saw its presence in the world € ™ s sport, when the country was his first appearance in the Helsinki Olympics in 1952.
He took the most populated African nation of only two years before she recorded her first win in 1954, when Emmanuel Ifeajuna won a gold in the high jump at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff.
The early success record made by Nigeria on the sports world would be complete without mention â € ~ Kida Hogan € ™ Bassey, it's become king of the world featherweight boxing in 1957 and Dick Tiger, who won the middleweight crown and later the world light heavyweight title.
Chioma Ajunwa, Nwankwo Kanu, Mercy Akide, Mary Onyali, the late Muda Lawal, Olusoji Fasuba and Austin â € ~ Jay Okocha Jaya € ™, to name only a few Athletes are held in their own rights.
Sports really started to take root in the country strong in the '60s, when the Commission National Sports (NSC) became operational.
In 1973, the National Sports Festival was presented as a means of discovering the athletes who will represent to the countries of continental and international competitions. The first National Sports Festival held in Lagos, has attracted over 6,000 athletes.
In the 70s saw great success as the Green Eagles won the gold medal in the All-Africa Games, while € ™ s COUNTRYERA contingent for games won second place overall in the medals table.
1976 and 1977 also saw the record victories in the countries of continental football tournament, where the IICC of Ibadan and Enugu Rangers stationed in the Cup Winners Cup competition.
The ™ € COUNTRYERA s achievements have continued to rise through the 80s and 90s, with a number of achievements, especially in football. The Eagles, led by Christian Chukwu, has won the African Nations Cup € ™ s by first time in Lagos in 1980.
In 1984 and 1988, Nigeria was again in the final of this championship to lose two times in Cameroon.
Nigeriae € ™ s Golden Eaglets won Kodak U-17 World Cup, now known as the U-17 World Cup in China and the Flying Eagles almost did the same in Saudi â € ~ 89 U-20 World Cup but lost narrowly in the final against Portugal. Nigeriae € ™ s â € OETH Damman miracle victory, â € in Russia after the escape of four goals behind with only 25 minutes left, still fresh in our minds.
Nigeria also won silver medals and bronze in men and women 4 X100M Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
Apart from these, many Nigerians had distinguished himself in various sports.
The feat of nigeriae € ™ s U-23 dream team â € ~ 96 Olympics in Atlanta, where he won the gold medal in the football event of sperm Ajunwaâ € ™ s the feeling of winning a gold medal in long jump, put the icing on the cake for the sport of Nigeria worldwide.
Other achievements recorded by Nigeria in international sports, as the victory in Japan Eaglets € ™ 93 and â € ~ ™ € Eaglesâ Cup qualification for World for the first time the United States â € ~ 94.
Above all, Take your first position in 2003 All Africa Games and more recently the successful U-17 World Cup in Korea in 2007 Stand of the nation as a land that has been blessed with talent and human resources.
The talent in the country are so numerous many neglect or by the authorities or for personal reasons, crashed functionality Nigeria to other countries in various sports. One of them is â € ~ The Hakeem Olajuwon dream € ™, which has played and won the gold medal for the U.S. basketball team â € ~ Olympics in Barcelona 92
Francis Obikwelu, Gloria Alozie, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Rasak Omotoyosi and Emmanuel Adebayor are Nigerians, but the great sports figures have chosen to compete for other countries. The list is endless.
While the defection of athletes from other nations, including even the neighboring Togo and Benin has a negative impact on the nation as a result of the mismanagement of the sport in recent times, the many achievements in recent years have not been supported by the country.
The different s ™ € COUNTRYERA sports teams in the struggle of everyone, not just to qualify for the championships, and when they perform miserably and equipment inflict untold suffering sports fans of Nigerians.
This was a line up of disappointments and tragedies as the nation € ™ s athletes continue to dive. The downward trend in the economy, not helping sports.
€ In the FIBA-Africa, held recently in Libya Basketball, DA € ™ ™ s nigeriae Tigers men's team fell in the quarterfinals in Cameroon. The team is now seeking € ~ â € ™ for willingness of a wild card to win their World Cup qualifier of FIBA in 2010.
In athletics, COUNTRYERA € ™ s representatives not only failed to reach the final tests for entry (except the 4A-400m relay male and female), came back with three cases of athletes who failed drug tests, resulting in COUNTRYERA ™ € s name into disrepute.
Other sports such as swimming, handball, volleyball, hockey and boxing have not done better, COUNTRYERA € ™ s unique feature representatives championships to grab the number.
Football, â € ~ the number one sport ™ € in Nigeria is not left out there AA witnessed the miseries and tragedies of a tournament to another.
FIFA, world football's governing body, a Once Nigeria had forbidden his young team at the age of quality competition due to differences in ages of the players. Unfortunately, not much has been learned from this situation.
The eaglets are competing in Nigeria 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, because Nigeria is the host as the team failed to qualify for the event this weekend next.
Flying cycle Second Eaglesâ € ™ of the U-20 recently concluded World Cup in Egypt was another sad story for the Nation ™ € s Cup.
The Super Eagles dare in 2010 Senior World Cup qualifying series, as coach Shuaibu Ahmoduâ € ™ s team now has a rival group sheet, Tunisia, for the finals in South Africa.
The women's team, Super Falcons, who were champions of Africa, since 1991, was third in the 2008 African Women Championship, losing to minnows € ~ â € ™ as Guinea semi-final.
â € œâ proper planning prevents poor performance, â € says a proverb. Unfortunately this is not nigeriae € ™ s style of doing things. Nationalism € ™ s preparations firefighters approach missed many opportunities, but managers prefer to wait until the last minute to invite the athletes to camp ahead of the competition.
This can not work. Developed countries like USA, Germany, Russia, Britain and others have provided much before the competition. Moreover, the politics, favoritism and partiality exist in Nigeria, the management of sports games for the selection of coaches and athletes.
Until these problems are eliminated, Nigeria's sports will continue to record poor results. Sports geta that deserve equal attention by the government, which sponsors a large percentage of sports in Nigeria. Unfortunately, only football enjoys this privilege, leaving other sports, too known as â € ~ less Sportster € ™ suffer.
It's massive quality Scouting young talent to replace aging and athletes should receive quality training to ensure that compete favorably with the best in the world. The objective here should be to obtain an immediate result.
Finally there is the need to modernize obsolete facilities throughout the country, while the sports policy should emphasize the maintenance of facilities.
The potential and the team COUNTRYERA ™ € provision of sufficient to change the fate of sports in Nigeria, where people with authority are sincere about tax payers money ™ €.
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