His game inspired me. I scored in the quarter final against Athletico Madrid in Spain to take Ajax to the semi final of the Champions League after extra time.We lost to a Zinedin Zidane-inspired Juventus side. In the last yea...Tijani Babangida opens up on Zidane encounter in Champions League tieYou were an assistant coach to Sunday Oliseh at the national team. Do they have, for instance, health insurance? We drew in Holland and lost 3-0 in Turin. NAME: Haruna Babangida DATE OF BIRTH: 1 October 1982 PLACE OF BIRTH: Kaduna, … Those two goals enhanced my CV to a high level as they catapaulted Nigeria to the final of the tournament which we lost to Cameroon.From there we started qualifiers for the Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup. I developed a lot of interest in football when I saw most of my idols play.
After the Games, Amuneke found himself signing for a club in Egypt, while I moved to Holland.I played with JC Rhoda first. What really happened to those Eagles because everything just crumbled? Kelvin Ekerete Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has described former La Masia teammate, Haruna Babangida, as the best player in the world.
The peace they are enjoying now is because they have not been able to bring the technical committee together to vet the team and disrupt the coach’s team selection. And I was wowed by that piece of news because I thought they were having fun on the field and making money at the same time wowed me. Do they have, for instance, health insurance?
And when he returned to the team, he succeeded in taking the club back to ascendancy and won the La Liga title. Those two goals enhanced my CV to a high level as they catapaulted Nigeria to the final of the tournament which we lost to Cameroon.From there we started qualifiers for the Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup. We are not going there to talk about Tijani Babangida but about the union of players who are still active in the game like Mikel Obi, Ahmed Musa, Victor Osimhen and their likes.The question is, how are we going to use the system to reach them? Zidane was a very fantastic player, you had to see him play because no description could adequately capture his enormous skill and displays.As a coach, he is doing marvelously too, because when he left Real Madrid, the club was dropping like a plane that was being pulled down by the force of gravity. One needs to have the political zeal and power to resolve the issues at stake, and they must trust you. Sections But at the end of the day, it paid off. They have been rumblings and fighting for over twenty years which are affecting the welfare of the youths and footballers of Nigerian now.Luckily for me, Harrison Jalah is a very nice man, I have spoken with him. Babangida is a Nigerian surname and may refer to: Ibrahim Babangida, former military ruler of Nigeria Maryam Babangida, former first lady of Nigeria Three footballer brothers Tijani Babangida (born 1973), Nigerian footballer That group included late Coach Amodu, Joseph Erico and Saturday editor of Vanguard, then sports editor, Onochie Anibeze)It was because of the system the NFF are using which is not good.
Why don’t we encourage our own to excel?You can never say no to your country when they call on you. Anyway, I did my best; he was a winger and I was a winger who scored a lot of goals. Westerhof at that time did not invite me to the national team for the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations.After the Nations Cup, there was a lot of pressure on coach Clemens Westerhof from the international press. So, that goal is very important to me.I was happy but I could not celebrate much because of how the game ended.After the World Cup we came to the Ghana/Nigeria 2000 Africa Cup of Nations where I started as a bench warmer and then became a regular from the semi final when I scored two quick goals against South Africa. For me that sounded like a bonus because I thought playing football was fun. That year we went up to the semi final of the Champions League.
It was challenging because Finidi had done so much; they won the Champions League, so you could see how he made it difficult to find a good replacement who would be as good as himself. Most times you don’t find good players transforming into good coaches, who can teach younger ones to become better than themselves. That was my story with the Super Eagles. You noticed I scored a lot of goals at Ajax, more that any Nigerian that was in Holland. Westerhof at that time did not invite me to the national team for the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations.After the Nations Cup, there was a lot of pressure on coach Clemens Westerhof from the international press. I had a memorable game, scored two fantastic goals that are still being talked about in world football today.That was the first time I was seeing a natural right-footed winger operate from the left side, but it is common today in modern football.At that time, the system wasn’t regular for you to see something like that.