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Gabriel Teodoro Martinelli Silva joined the north London club Arsenal from Brazilian side Ituano in July 2019. The electric-fire defender has scored ten times with a total and won the Arsenal Goal of the Season award for a stunning solo effort in a 2-2 draw at Chelsea during his debut season.

After the Brazilian defender handed PSG a dramatic shootout victory in Budapest by missing the penalty, although Gabriel’s pain still remains fresh, the kind of widespread support from teammates, coaches, and fans, many of whom praised his willingness to take responsibility when it mattered most made the player determined to look ahead rather than dwell on one difficult moment.

His wonderful season was 2022/23 when he scored 15 goals for the club and he will still go to be part of Arsenal next year’s success story following suit of John Terry after 2008 lost penalty in the final and later won the Champions League in 2011/12.

The Gunners failed to make history after their first Champions League final in 20 years as they finally ended their 22-year wait for a 14th Premier League title. Arsenal played a 1 -1 draw against current holders Paris Saint-Germain and lost by 3-4 on penalties after extra time.

Wednesday was the first time joy for pacesetter queen after experience seven lost and one draw at Nigeria Woman league

The ladies played incrediblely with impact of recent tactical and strategy adjustments and introduced of new players into team really improved momentum of game and help at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan, Oyo as oyo State’s female football side, Pacesetter Queens, finally recorded their first victory of the season with 2-0 over Adamawa Queens who actually in the 4th position in table in their Nigeria Women Football League .

After a tense first half that ended without goals, the hosts returned from the break with greater determination. Their persistence was rewarded in the 51st minute when Hikmat Adewale broke the deadlock, sending the home crowd into celebration and setting the tone for a stronger second-half performance.

The Queens continued to press forward with renewed energy, and their efforts were crowned again in the 80th minute when Kaase Esther calmly sealed the victory with the second goal, ensuring a comfortable and memorable win for the Oyo side.

With difficult at first round that saw the pacesetter queen struggle through and last performance we saw no don’t fear ladies we finished well as they hosting Ibom Angels FC again on next Wednesday. And sequence matches.

The Nigeria ladies have a surprise story today after being 1-0 down in 7 minutes of the game Although at 32 minutes, Chiwendu Ihezuo equalized the home side to pick off the game for Nigeria the
Both teams were similar, with quick passing and unselfish assists.

After a few minutes, on 43’ minutes of the game, Rinsola Babajide launched in the second goal, from a powerful strike.

The fans at the 1, 000-capacity Yaoundé stadium were cheering again after the second half resumed hope of victory for their beloved team, but nineteen minutes later, Michelle Alozie scored the third goal on 64 minutes to make the gates close at 3-1 in favor of the Falcons.

As tomorrow is swearing-in for the new executive of the Nigeria football coaches association, Oyo state chapter Grassroots Development unit having ambassador Akande Lukuman Arisekola, the HOD for grassroots development. I saw this era of grassroots football development in Oyo because of the experience of the new Hod and as a club owner in the Nigeria football league 3rd tier division and from tomorrow, I saw Oyo state regain their past glory in youth football development produced another great players like Mutiu Adepoju, a three time World Cup player, flexi Owolabi shooting stars, Muyiwa Lawal Atlético Madrid player and Gbegba Okunlowo Barcelona player etc. Congratulations to the Oyo state football
Here is the list of the new executives.

1) H O D
Akande Lukman
Oluyole LG
2)H O D 1
Badmos Mohamed (oke ogun) LG

3) H O D 2
Gbemileke Abosede
Ib, North west LG

4) Treasurer
Oloyede obayemi
Ibarapa north LG

5) Ass training officer
Alimi Yusuf Babatunde
Ibarapa east. LG

6) Training officer
Raji Abass Adanla
Ib North LG

7) chief whip
Odugbela
Ido LG

8)Auditor
Oyeyemi Adetayo
Afijio LG

9) Gen sec.
Aderoju zaccheous
Oyo west LG

10) P R O
Bello olatunji yusuff
North East

11) Ass financial sec.
Bukola Jesuloni
Ib North LG

12) Ass Gen. Sec 1
Amole Olanrewaju Yisau
IB SW LG

(13)Welfare director
Ige Kabiru moshood
South East

The Nigeria u17 Team is the most successful team in the tournament’s history, with five titles and three runners-up. Brazil is the second-most successful with four titles and two runners-up. Ghana and Mexico have each won the tournament twice, Despite being one of the top youth countries in the world, when was the last time they qualified or did well in the category?

A lot of unseeing hidden factors are killing our football development in Nigeria, although political instability and governance issues are major challenges to Nigeria’s football development. Frequent changes in government often lead to policy inconsistency, affecting long-term development plans. Corruption is another significant issue, but there are others such as

Selection of players based on federal character, godfatherism, and favoritism, rather than on merit and performance.

Rotation of football coaches across all age categories

Transfer of interest like in the olden days, the interests of the majority were in the local team, not now when everybody is crazy about foreign teams.

No team performance analysts across any of the national teams

Most parents don’t see football as a profession. They see it as a wasting of time, which is not like that in the developing world. Just tell me how profession pay, like football.

There is no age grade developmental program like in most developed countries. There are leagues for age grades from u10 to senior categories which are not like in Nigeria and there is a time in Nigeria, in particular, Ibadan Liberty Stadium, where the NFF u12 tournament was organized to develop young people, but after the first edition, the tournament was stopped.

Recycling players who are already past their prime, yet claiming to be young and energetic, making it almost impossible for genuine young talents to emerge and fill the gap.

The killing of school games across the nation and putting a stop to the primary school game really damaged our development stage, our development stage a lot.

Poor motivation for the grassroots clubs and coaches. At least if grants did not come from the grassroots, they should make it compulsory for local government to coach employees in local government.

Turning most of the school field into a house. In the country now, most of the old school fields have started turning into houses.

The influence of social media and the way in which the majority of young people use social media really affects the development of games in the country.