HE WAS THE GREATEST FOOTBALL COMMENTATOR IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICA. (ERNEST OKONKWO). HIS RHYMES AND CHOICE OF WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE ACTIONS ON THE FIELD OF PLAY WOULD MAKE YOU STAY GLUED TO YOUR RADIO OR TV SET.
HERE ARE SOME OF HIS POPULAR COMMENTS:-
‘After ninety minutes of play and extra-time, the match has ended one goal apiece but a winner must emerge. Five players have on each side been selected to take the penalty kicks. The players are praying to their God to give them this day but it is not who prays more but who plays better.
Okey Isima, with a short pass to Sylvanus Okpala, they both play in Portugal. They can communicatein Igbo, they can communicate in English, they can communicate in Portuguese and they just communicated with the ball.
Emmanuel Okala holds the ball, cuddles it like a baby, bounces the ball once and hits with a left footer and Emmanuel Osigwe chest traps and lays the ball for a well positioned Ranger. The lanky ebony black goal-hungry Ranger is ranging alone in the goal area of the water corporation football club of Ibadan. Can the one man riot squad make it four for Rangers? A hat-trick i.e. one, two, three goals are already in his kitty. Ifeanyichukwu means nothing is insurmountable to God. Four goals are also not beyond the ability of Ifeanyichukwu Onyedika. Eventually the opportunity is lost. Goal kick is coming to the Ibadan lads. If a man goes hunting with a gun, matchet, jack-knife, arch, horse-whip, Hausas call it ‘bulala or ‘koboko’, do you expect any animal to escape? Rangers came to Ibadan with a killer-squad. Meanwhile Bennedict’ Surugede’ Ugwu and Amaechi Ottih are warming up for Rangers. Rangers is building attack from defence through Patrick Ekeji with a triangular tap to Herbert Anijekwu and Innocent Obiekwo to Commander Louis Igwilo and he leaves the ball to Chairman Christian Chukwu who chest-traps and sends a banana kick pass to Ifeanyichukwu Onyedika in the eighteen yard box of Water Corporation. He beats stylishly an on-rushing defender and a scissors-kick and it is a goal o-o-o-o-. Goal number four for the flying Antelopes and Indomitable Rangers International Football Club of Enugu, all scored by Ifeanyichukwu “Ahidjo”Onyedika.
A defender of the Water Corporation Football Club of Ibadan quickly takes it away and lumps a high one into the eighteen yard box of Rangers International Football Club of Enugu. Michael Emenalo stops the ball, looks in the direction of the right where Sylvanus Okpala is perfectly piloting the affairs but chooses to raise a high one to Okey Isima. Like a crab, he moves and jabs a low one to Christian Ogbodo who loses control but Kenneth Boardman came to the rescue. He lifts the ball to Adokiye Amasiemeka, Justice, he is called, who moves in a zig-zag direction and caresses the ball to Aloysius Atuegbu, blockbuster blocks a player of the Water Corporation of Ibadan for Kingsley Onye (Mature) to take over control who with a header back passes to goal keeper Emmanuel Man Mountain Okala. This could just be taken for a practice match for Rangers as with or without this victory, Rangers Football Club has won the 1981 Nigeria Division One Football League.
“He beats Christian Chukwu; he beats Christian Madu; he beats Christian Nwokocha, he beats three Christians in a row. Who is this man? He must be a Muslim. Oh, it is Shefiu Mohammed sending a diagonal pass to Baba Otu Mohammed.”
“Etim Esin, he shilly-shallies, he dilly-dallies, he tries to beat one man but only succeeds in beating himself!”
Oh noooo…it’s an own goal! Nigeria has scored Nigeriaaaaaa!!!
Referring to the most famous own Goal in Nigerian history by Odiye,
' …and now we have Elijah of Nigeria. Give us this day. The whole country is on your shoulders; you cannot afford to fail your country…And he moves, 1 ,2 , 3, 4 it’s a goooooooooooaaaaal!!!! This is a miracle. The God of soccer is a Nigerian!”
Emmanuel “Man Mountain” Okala, Aloysius “Blockbuster” Atuegbu, Christian “ Chairman” Chukwu, “Mathematical” Segun Odegbani, Kelechi “Caterpiller” Emetole, “Midfield Maestro” Mudashiru Lawal, “Justice” Adokiye Amasiemeka, Uwem “Harmattan” Ekerika, Sylvanus “Quicksilver “Okpala, “Commander” Louis Igwilo, Sylvester “Bahama” Oparanozie, Benedict “Surugede” Ugwu, Idowu “Slow Poison” Otubusin, “Shortish” John Benson, “Dimunitive” Amaechi Otti, Nnamdi “Policeman” Anyafo, Davison “Okada Air” Qwumi, Daniel “The Bull” Amokachi, “Penalty Specialist” Christian Madu, “Masters of Long Throw” Moses Otolorin and Nwabueze Nwankwo, “The Man with Bullet Shot” Emmanuel Osigwe
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