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    ... Conquering the world with a Ball at your Feet

Conquering the World With a Ball at your Feet By Emmanuel Jay

       More than Half of the world's male Teenage Population aspire to become great footballers, cherished and adored by fans all over the world but only a handful of them realize their dreams. They Look up to and mirror themselves as great players such as Pele, Maradona ,Cryuff, Zidane, Jay Jay Okocha and the ever Dominant Duo of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The question before us now is;

         WHO ARE THOSE WHO ACTUALIZED THOSE DREAMS

Have you ever taken time to go deep into knowing more about your football idols, their struggles, determination, commitment right from their youthful age? Rather than swimmin in the pool of your imaginations. STOP WISHING YOU WERE, MAKE SURE YOU ARE!

You really want to  become great just like some of the aforementioned Football stars and yet you are not ready to go through the thick and thins? You are already giving up just after some few challenges, like seriously? You want to realise your dreams in a platter of gold? Where is the Hardwor? Focus? Determination? In the last article , we talked about Five tips to becoming a successful Footballer.

Take a look at some football stars who never gave up on their dreams
1.  VICTOR MOSES  : Lost both Parents due to war in his country but never gave up

 2.  PELE: Played Football with Bare foots on the street of Brazil with a ball formed from newspapers, grape fruits tied with a string as he couldn't afford a pair of boots and soccer balls

3. JUDE  IGHALO: Grew up and played football in the slumps of Ajegunle in Nigeria but never looked at his poor background as a limitation. Today, ighalo is one of the numerous stars who has gone from Ajegunle to the World.

4. ALEXIS SANCHEZ :Washed cars to bring in income for his family whilst continuing his rise to greatness.

5.NEYMAR JR:Who could have believed that the widely sought after Football star is a survivor from a life threatening  Car aciddent which almost took his life. Today, Neymar Jr is the Most expensive and most sought after football Player

The list Goes on and on. Now, it is very glaring that the people who realised their dreams were those who never gave up on it. They pushed their limits and today, the World is at their Feet.

          YOU ARE THE NEXT BIG THING!

Club Football continued in the midweek and witnessed the masterclass of two nigerian youngsters Victor Osimhen and Alexander Iwobi. Victor Osimhen came on as a first half substitute for injured former Chelsea Player, Loic Remy. The Nigerian forward opened the scoring for his new club Lille with a fine finish before fellow team mate Bamba made it 2 from the spot. Osimhen would soon go on to score his second and his side's third with a clinical finish after a heavy first touch. Osimhen is Currently Ligue 1 topn scorer with 4 Goals in two matches.

      Alex Iwobi made his first start for Everton and was in red hot form scoring his side's third before being substituted. The Match ended 4-2 in favour of the toffees. Lucas Digne stole the show with a masterclass Free kick from the Edge of the box.

The famous Mamman Kotangora House situated on Marina, Lagos Island has been reportedly gutted by fire.

Mamman Kotangora House

Channels Television reports that high rise building houses corporate entities, including the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) and the Federal Mortgage Bank.
It was gathered from eyewitnesses that the fire started-off around the generator house of the building this morning.

News reaching us has made it known that the three kidnapped Orekoya kids have been found.

Recall that few days ago, news went viral on all social media platforms and even instant messaging services about how three out of the four children of the Orekoya were kidnapped by their nanny, Mary Akinloye,

Former Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Prof. Tamunoemi David-West has excited Nigerians with an assertion about how much the pump price of petrol will be during the regime of Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president-elect.

According to David-West, petrol price will drop sharply from the current N87 to about N40 per litre. “The president-elect, Gen. Mohammed Buhari, will reduce the fuel pump price to N40 per litre.”

The Lille goalkeeper has been nominated for the Radio France International-France 24 best African prize named in honour of the late Cameroonian midfielder

Nigeria  goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has made the shortlist for the RFI - FRANCE 24 Marc-Vivien Foé Awardfor the best African player in the French Ligue 1 football championship for the 2014-15 season, it has been announced.
The Super Eagles captain edged out Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurier (Toulouse FC) and Cameroon international player Henri Bedimo (Olympique Lyonnais) to win the last edition.
A shortlist of 10 players in the running to receive this year’s award was unveiled in France by state radio RFI and satellite television France 24 – sponsors of the award.

An accident that occurred at the Ibadan end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway at around 10am on Tuesday morning claimed the lives of two people while four more were injured.

Lagos Ibadan expressway under reconstruction to accommodate a 3 way 6 lane road

The accident according to the Tribune online occurred around 9:48 a.m. Tuesday morning, when an 18-seater bus plunged into a river. RCC men who were working at the scene which was n

 
There was a gas explosion at a welding workshop on 5th Avenue, D1 Close in FESTAC Town, Lagos State on April 13, Monday.
A yet-to-be identified man was killed in the explosion while two other people reportedly sustained injuries.
The explosion was said to have occurred at about 3p.m., Punch reports.
It was gathered that when fire fighters from Ojo fire station arrived at the scene, they saw the deceased corpse lying on the floor, while the workshop was deserted.

A native of Katsina state who promised to trek from Lagos to Abuja if General Muhammadu Buhari from the All Progressives Congress won the presidential poll, has been seen in Niger state.

His name is Hasheem Suleiman. He was in Lagos when Buhari was announced the president-elect of Nigeria. Hasheem left Lagos at about 5am the next day and arrived in Ibadan around 6pm.

The popular dancer Kaffy has released new photos.
The mother of two, wife and one of Nigeria’s most prolific dancers is working on a lot of projects in the coming months which includes the release of her Burn-out DVD, a Burn-out tour, a dance camp and dance workshop.

See the new photos she released below:
       
Just few months ago the dancer and her hubby celebrated their two-year anniversary.

A group known as the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria has condemned the alleged anti-Igbo threats issued by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu, to Igbo leaders in Lagos on April 5, Sunday.
The group flayed Oba Akiolu’s comments as unbecoming in a democratic setting where people should be allowed to vote according to their free will.
According to Premium Times, it queried why other ethnic groups living in Lagos who vote for Jimi Agbaje will go scot-free while the Igbos who vote for Agbaje will drown in the Lagoon?
The group also called on the Oba to withdraw his curse and appeal to the people to vote for APC in the coming election rather than invoking ancestral powers for destruction.

Founder of Believers Love World Ministry aka Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has finally spoken on the divorce suit filed against him by his wife after days of silence on the issue.

According to the Daily Post, Oyakhilome described the allegations levelled against him as “crazy” and “stupid” and urged his church members to pray for his estranged wife while speaking on Sunday evening during the monthly global communion service of the church.
Oyakhilome, who appeared visibly disturbed during his first few minutes on stage, acknowledged that divorce is un-Biblical but suggested he could consider the option should his wife insist on it.
“I heard that some media houses– especially in Nigeria, are writing some things against me. All sorts of frivolous charges, that’s crazy.
“You have to understand something about a man of God. A man of God is not just someone who worships God or preaches God. A man of God is handpicked by God, set on course by God. If you study the scriptures, you will not find one man of God go against God, sinning against God.
“The only thing you might find will be a man of God, maybe in two different kinds of ways. Moses, for example, when he struck the rock twice, he was provoked by the anger of the people. It was not because he wanted to do something against the Lord. No man of God does something against the Lord.
“Are you hearing me? A man of God is set on a course; there is a type of life that he is given. Then you have a young man, a young prophet; he wasn’t named; he was deceived by another man of God and so he went in a direction that God said ‘don’t go’.

P-Square’s hit single Personally has hit the 40million YouTube mark, the first time for any Nigerian music video.
The video was released in June 2013 as a tribute to late Pop star, Micheal Jackson.
Reacting to the landmark, Paul of P-Square exclaimed, “wow!!!! 40million views…,”.

It's a new week, and we here at wap9ja presents you with 10 must-see gorgeous  photos of your favourite actors. It's the beautiful and sexy Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar.

From her casual day photos to her on-set photos, wap9ja presents you with 10 beautiful photos of Halima.

The Queen of the silver screen in Nigeria Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has hot two million followers on the social networking site Facebook.

 

On Thursday, April 2, it was announced that 17-year-old progeria victim Hayley Okines had passed away in East Sussex, England.

The condition called; Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome, also known as HGPS or Progeria, causes children with it age up to 10 times faster than normal.

Hayley's mother, Kerry Okines, posted the news on Facebook: "My baby girl has gone somewhere better. She took her last breath in my arms at 9.39 pm."

Hayley - who BBC News say had the "body of a 104-year-old" - was being treated in the hospital for pneumonia, but she returned home shortly before she died. "She came home for an hour and she saw her puppies, little brother Louie and her sister Ruby," Hayley's father, Mark Okines, told BBC News on Friday, April 3.

The ex-Barcelona captain is believed to be training with a view to ending his retirement from football for a lucrative end-of-career spell in Qatar or the MLS

The 36-year-old retired in 2014 after 15 years at Barcelona but according to recent reports, Carles Puyol has started training with a view to ending his retirement from football for a lucrative end-of-career spell in Qatar or the United States.

Cristiano Ronaldo
scored five goals
in one match for
the first time in
his career as Real
Madrid hammered Granada 9-1
on Sunday.
Ronaldo has scored four goals in
a single game three times since
joining the Blancos from
Manchester United in 2009, most
recently in September last year,
but never before in the three-
time Ballon d'Or winner's career
has he bagged five efforts in 90
minutes.
His five-star performance against
Granada, who are four points off
the bottom of La Liga, leaves him
level with Barcelona rival Lionel
Messi in terms of hat-tricks in the
Spanish top flight.
Ronaldo almost doubled his tally
for goals in 2015 in La Liga (he
now has 11 for the calendar year
and 36 for the season in the
Primera Division) and now sits
eighth on the all-time list having
overtaken former Real Madrid
striker Pahino this weekend.
The 30-year-old will be delighted
that he has scored four goals in a
single game more than twice in a
season for the first time in his
professional career, while
toppling his own record for his
fastest hat-trick.

Cristiano Ronaldo
well and truly
stole the show in
Real Madrid's
9-1 win over
Granada on Sunday with an
eight-minute hat-trick as part of
a five-goal masterclass.
The Portuguese superstar is
running out of achievements to
notch up in Spain, but he netted
his fastest treble in a Real shirt,
and his first since
December, within 38 minutes of
a wonderfully clinical display.
Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema,
twice, were also on target for
Carlo Ancelotti's side in Madrid,
while Diego Mainz put through
his own net to compound
Granada's misery late on.
Bizarrely given such an emphatic
scoreline, Real were far from
their fluent best early on.
However, from the moment
they led after 25 minutes
when Bale's recent upturn in
form continued with a well-taken
opener under pressure, they
never looked back.
Having coolly rounded
goalkeeper Oier, Bale registered
his fifth goal in four outings for
club and country to set the ball
rolling, before Ronaldo took
centre stage and almost single-
handedly put Granada to the
sword.
The returning James Rodriguez
supplied his first before the
Ballon d'Or holder made the most
of two Oier errors to register his
24th, and quickest, Liga hat-trick.
The onslaught continued in the
second half as Ronaldo scored
his fourth in between Benzema's
brace, with Roberto Ibanez's late
consolation the only
disappointment for the hosts.
Mainz then turned Luka Modric's
cross into his own net to
present Real with another gift,
before Ronaldo - fittingly - had
the final say to move Real to
within a point of Barcelona, who
play Celta Vigo later on Sunday.
In their first outing since the
international break, Real
dominated possession early on
but were hampered by loose
passes and offside calls.
After Ruben Rochina and Ibanez
had both gone close for the
struggling visitors, the home fans
made their frustrations clear as
Granada began to grow in
confidence.
But the whistles were silenced
when Bale latched onto Toni
Kroos’ pass and outmuscled
Mainz before rounding the
goalkeeper, doing well to keep
the ball in play before tucking it
into an open net.
The lead was doubled before the
half-hour mark, as Granada's
early solidity crumbled -
Rodriguez cleverly turning a
sloppy clearance into an assist
for Ronaldo's 32nd league goal
of the season.
With Real in full swing, Oier could
only parry a fierce Marcelo cross
into Ronaldo's path for his
second with the visiting
goalkeeper also at fault for Real's
fourth.

Oier could only help Ronaldo's
long-range strike on its way as
the Portuguese completed his
quickfire hat-trick to take the
game well and truly beyond
Granada.
Youssef El-Arabi did rattle the
crossbar on a rare foray forward
prior to half-time, but it was a
rare moment of relief for the
visitors as Benzema and Ronaldo
continued to expose them after
the break.
Showing expert control on his
chest, Benzema turned and fired
home on the half-volley after 52
minutes to ensure each of Real's
frontline a place on the
scoresheet, before the
Frenchman then turned provider
for Ronaldo's fourth.
Benzema took Real's tally to
seven himself with Ancelotti
subsequently able to
withdraw Rodriguez, having
made his first appearance since
February following a broken
metatarsal.
Ibanez finished a quick break for
the visitors to ensure a
consolation but normal order
was restored when Mainz's
own goal took Real's tally against
Granada to 12 this term.
There was still time, though,
for Ronaldo to round off a
supreme performance in style as
he netted his fifth a minute from
time, rising highest to head
home Modric's free-kick from the
right.