Mathematical Odegbami scores another goal

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, April 18th, 2013

By Patrick Omorodion

Former Green Eagles captain, Chief Olusegun Odegbami (MON) is a man of many parts and can’t keep stop scoring goals on and off the field of football which has brought him more fame than money as he sets to launch a book about his personal life experiences, football and other things.

On May 2, 2013, Chief Odegbami, who will be remembered for nurturing Chioma Ajunwa when she was abandoned by all to Nigeria’s first Olympic gold medal, will be launching a 350-page book titled: Me, Football And More at the Anchor Events Centre in Agidingbi area of Ikeja in Lagos.

In a chat with media men in his office Tuesday, Chief Odegbami said that Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola has “not only graciously agreed to write the forward of the book but will serve as the Special Guest of honour.”

According to Odegbami, who said that at 60 he was not too strong to continue to fight the ills in Nigeria’s sports but will remain at the sidelines to support the younger ones in the struggle, “another wordsmith, an erudite scholar and intellectual giant,… Prof Adebayo Williams will be reviewing the book” while Mr. Gabriel Onosode, “a man whose life serves as a model for me, will be the Chairman of the event.”

The book, Chief Odegbami disclosed, will not only have a hard copy but “there will also be an e-version for interested readers on the web worldwide (and also) an audio-version of a section of the book.”

The book, a compendium of some of the many articles he has written in a lot of Nigerian newspapers in the past, he said, is divided into three sections – “ME, a collection of articles that look at aspects of my life that may not be directly related to sports ; FOOTBALL, a collection of my experiences and opinion on various aspects of my time (and out of it) on football; and MORE, about other aspects of my experiences through my decades in sports.”
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