#YourSportsMemo Podcast

From Brazil's flamboyant 1982 side to their predecessors who won the World Cup in 2002; the Michel Platini led France of 1982-86 to the Holland side that won the Euros in 1988, the African teams of Cameroon in 1990 and Nigeria in 1994 our Panel dissect their choices.  International Week gives the Podcast the chance to assemble a Panel of keen football watchers to choose their Favourite Internation...

With NPFL getting ready to resume in December this episode examines how Sports Medicine is applied in the Nigeria football space - if at all.  In the Podcast are Dr Jimi Osinaike and Dr Babatunde Akinbinu, both Sports Medicine doctors working in that sector in Nigeria.  Their candid views and stories on what obtains in Nigeria and what can easily be done to improve the situation should be heard by...

Following back to back defeats in the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League, this Episode of the Podcast has Man United fans @Steizen, Yomi Okunowo, Bola Adegbonmire, Quindereddiva, Tuka Lekura and a few others give their views on what is wrong with the club.  There were strong views and an almost universal agreement that there should be change of managers. 

Mikel Arteta takes his Arsenal team to Old Trafford to take on the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Man United. This used to be a fierce rivalry in the middle years of the Premier League. These two managers used to play for these clubs and won silverware there. Arteta has led Arsenal to the FA Cup already. Gauntlet thrown down for Solskjaer. United and Arsenal fans recount two of their favourite memories from...

Nigeria Super Falcons 2014 AWCON winning skipper Evelyn Nwabuoku drops in on the Pod from her base in Spain. Nwabuoku talks about her career from the humble beginning in Festac, Lagos to the triumph in Nambia to the World Cup 2019 in France.   Nwabuoku speaks on the disparity in how the Super Falcons and the Super Eagles are treated in terms of welfare by the Nigeria Football Federation. She also...

Liverpool fans Emeka Nwabudike and Wunmi Thomas expect the Reds to retain their Title. Arsenal Season Ticket Holder Kunle Aderibigbe expects a top 4 finish while Kay Suberu of Chelsea won't be surprised if Frank Lampard leads Chelsea to a 6th title... Will Jose Mourinho reprise his Porto years with Spurs? Femi Kumuyi demands him to There are other fans remembering their favourite Premier League se...

Two of the most powerful voices in African Sports media and business Tega Onojaife and Usher Komugisha dropped into the Pod to discuss the problems with Women's Football in Africa and proffer solutions too. Absolutely fascinating take on the Women's game in the continent.  The Continent's football body, CAF and the Member Associations are being held accountable for the lack of movement and develop...

It was Frank Lampard's first season in charge of Chelsea football club. They finished in the Champions League places and lost in another FA Cup final to Arsenal. How do the Fans see that season? What do they want for the next season? This Chelsea Fans Special Podcast has the #CFC fans speaking.. These fans seem to have accepted that the club might be going down a different more sustaining route of...

After a 30 year wait, Liverpool are the best team in England once again. In this episode of the Podcast, LFC Fans from all over the world speak on this title win. Liverpool fans are a vintage bunch having seen so many heartbreaks within those 30 years of waiting for a league title. Jurgen Klopp and his mentality men put behind them the disappointment of making 97 points and one league defeat only...

He started out as their goalkeepers coach, then assistant first team coach and then the head coach. He proceeds to coach his team FK Tirana to the Albanian league title. He is former Super Eagles keeper Ndubuisi Emmanuel Egbo . He tells us of his journey to being the first African to coach a European team to the title.  Egbo talks about the place of player stats and match analyses in making select...

Manchester United in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's full season finished 3rd in the Premier League, lost 2 domestic cup semi-finals while also making the semi-finals of the Europa League. United fans from London, Malabo, Accra, Lagos, Asaba and many places join us in this #YourSportsMemo Man United fans special. Opened by @quinnydreddiva, contributions from Iyawo DWD Fernandes @_nseobong, Bola Ade...

This special edition has fans of Arsenal Football Club talking about their FA Cup winning season, the transfer window they would really like and their expectations for the 2020/21 Season under Mikel Arteta.  Dr Ekpen Omonbude, a season ticket holder at the Emirates, Emma Dele Nwachukwu, Deji Oseni and a few others were among the passionate contributors to this episode. 

The consensus among Arsenal fans seems to be a desire to prise Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid in Spain. Chelsea fans want a replacement for keeper Kepa. In Spain, Barcelona fans want a new President while a Real Madrid fan would love the team to win FIVE LaLiga titles on the bounce.  An eclectic gathering of Football fans on this special episode of #YourSportsMemo Podcast.

Nnamdi Anyafo joined Rangers International of Enugu as a teenager within three years he had won the Cup Winners Cup and played at the AFCON in 1978. His duel with Segun Odegbami of IICC Shooting Stars in the 1977 Cup Winners Cup semi-final made him famous. He resides in North Carolina, US.  A quite revealing podcast as Anyafo tells how he was actually born in Lagos and spoke yoruba language rather...

Michael Nsien is FC Tulsa Head Coach. Born in Oklahoma of Nigerian roots, Nsien holds all the UEFA Pro Coaching licenses and is seen by his peers in the US as a "trail blazer" for Black coaches in a sector with very few black coaches. "I am hoping that I am successful which will help get others like me to follow this path" Nsien says.  Michael Nsien's ultimate desire is "the 2026 FIFA World Cup wi...

On the 25th of September 1993 Efan Ekoku and the Nigeria Super Eagles were scoring 4 goals each thousands of miles apart. Within a few months Ekoku became a Super Eagle, winning an AFCON and being part of the US '94 World Cup Squad. He talks us through that period and his Premier League career as a player and now a Broadcaster.  "People say players from 30, 40 years ago would not cut it now. I wou...

One of only two Nigerian women to have scored at all international tournaments, Francesca Ordega tells how she started, what has driven her in her career so far. She is also very clear in her appreciation of where she started from and those who have helped her along the way. What is not in doubt is how courageous, determined but very clear in her desire to be successful in her career.  Her mother'...

One of only two Nigerian women to have scored at all international tournaments, Francesca Ordega tells how she started, what has driven her in her career so far. She is also very clear in her appreciation of where she started from and those who have helped her along the way. What is not in doubt is how courageous, determined but very clear in her desire to be successful in her career.  Her mother'...

After Nigeria's opening group game defeat to hosts France, Chiamaka Nnadozie was put in goal for the next game. She kept her place for the rest of the tournament and went on to be one of Nigeria's best players at the Tournament. She shares her career story thus far, going back to how she even became a goalkeeper, how much she earned in her early career.  The 20 year old Paris FC keeper has praises...

Going from a Police Barracks upbringing, through to playing for a host of clubsides in Nigeria without collecting salaries and then to a professional career in Europe, Rachel Ayegba has a story to tell that will encourage many young women. 

Azubuike Okechukwu has been twice captain of Nigeria U23 football teams is in the POD to look at his career and football pre- and post-Covid19. He talks about the passion of Bayelsa United fans and how that helped him adapt and understand fans in Istanbul.

An NPFL Special episode in which the league's players speak to us about their challenges and triumphs and what they have been doing to stay fit during this Covid-19 Pandemic. 

A mixed bag of an episode. Callers talking about the Corona Virus' effect on sports and football; then a look back at when Nigeria won her first AFCON title in 1980

Francis Uzoho is in good voice as he talks about his Super Eagles matches, his injury in the friendly Vs Brazil and much more in the POD

Evelyn 'Double-Double Queen' Akhator is in the Pod with Calvin Emeka Onwuka looking over the last three years of amazing basketball with the Nigeria D'Tigresses. She also talks about how she has gotten where she is in her career. Plus, she shares her dreams for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with the D'Tigress