After Nigeria’s team to the 6th IAAF Youth Championships in Bressanone, Italy, failed to achieve anything of substance, attention shifts back to the local scene as athletes round off training ahead of the Mobil Track and Field Championship slated for next weekend in Abuja.

Shooting Stars boss, Mutiu Adepoju, has spoken about his greatest challenges in the passing season, and stresses that his ultimate dream is to cap 3SC’s sweet promotion by leading the club back to the continent.

Not many people will know that for the Lagos State Government which is footing the bills for the 2009 Federation Cup final (it used to be FA Cup before now), today’s epic match between former African Champions, Enyimba Football Club of Aba and Sharks Football Club of Port Harcourt could not have been possible, or better still would have been colourless.

The debate raised by former Green Eagles winger, Adokie Amiesimaka’s suggestion that former Super Eagles captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha should return to the national team following the problem is having filling the vacuum created in the midfield by his departure is still raging.

Professor Emmanuel Ojeme of the University of Benin, President of the National Association of Physical and Health Education, Recreation, So and Dance (NAPHER.SD) as well as a member of the Vision 2020 Sports Thematic Group delivered this paper recently