Friday, February 13, 2009

African Footballer of The Year Award; Of What Relevance is it.

African Footballer of the Year Award What Good is it to African Football.

The annually held African Footballer of the year award was intended by the founding fathers of Confederation of African Football (CAF) to promote excellence in the game of football, encouraging the youths to stay off crime and play football to make a living and to keep fit. It was also intended to recognize those footballers of African origin that have distinguished themselves and have either won individual laurels or contributed immensely to their club’s glory and country’s accomplishment in year under review.
It is quite a welcome development for Africa to tow the lines of UEFA, FIFA and other confederations saddled with the responsibilities of administrating football in their various continents and at the world level.
Recently, the most prestigious award in the field of football in Africa has ceased to produced the standard and suspense required for an award of that magnitude.
See below a list of past winner since 1993 and the clubs they play for.

Year- /Winners /Nationality Club
1993 - Rashidi Yekini - Nigeria /Victoria Setubal
1994 - Emmanuel Amunike - Nigeria /Sporting Lisbon
1995 - George Weah -Liberia /AC Milan
1996 - Nwankwo Kanu -Nigeria /Ajax Amsterdam
1997 - Victor Ikepeba -Nigeria /Monaco
1998 - Mustapha Hadji -Morocco /Deportivo La Coruna
1999 - Nwankwo Kanu -Nigeria /Arsenal
2000 - Patrick Mboma -Cameroon /Parma
2001 - El-Hadji Diouf -Senegal /Lens
2002 - El-Hadji Diouf -Senegal /Liverpool
2003 - Samuel Eto’o -Cameroon /Real Mallorca
2004 - Samuel Eto’o -Cameroon /Barcelona
2005 - Samuel Eto’o -Cameroon /Barcelona
2006 - Didier Drogba -Cote d’Ivoire /Chelsea
2007 - Frederic Kanoute -Mali /Sevilla
2008 - Emmanuel Adebayor -Togo /Arsenal

From the above table it should be noted that of all the winners since 1993, no single winner plays for any African Club despite the fact that every year the Confederation of African Football organizes their own version of the Champions league which is supposed to be the most prestigious club football glory in Africa. It is quite unfortunate that no past winner of the African Champions League has been able to win the African Footballer of the year award since 1993.
The big question is this; what are the CAF administrators doing to encourage our African players to look inwards, if the only way you could stand a chance of winning the most outstanding award in Africa Football, is by plying your trade in Europe.
This has not in any way helped to improve the values or development of the game of football within the Africa continent. Egypt won the 2008 edition of the African Cup of Nation hosted by Ghana with predominantly 90% home based players taken from the Egyptian league and coached by an Egyptian coach; making nonsense of our over reliance on foreign coaches and Europe based players most of whom play with little or no commitment to their national teams.

Little is known about the various football leagues in Africa whereas too much is now known about the European league here in Africa, various fans club of top European clubs are found in the remotest of hamlets and villages all over Africa and on every match day commercial television viewing centers are jam packed with fans cheering their various European clubs whereas the various stadium in most parts of Africa are virtually empty when top league matches are being played. Some Football Associations shift important matches to other days, simply because a top club in Europe is playing a league match that same day. The reasons are obvious; people would rather pay to watch the Europeans clubs on TV than to go watch an important international match for free at any of the stadium.

CAF has helped in enhancing the growth of interest in the European leagues by their criteria for selecting or deciding who wins the African Footballer of the year.
In the last edition (2008) won by Emmanuel Adebayor, a Nigerian born Togolese national team and Arsenal football of England player, shows that Africa football administrators are still miles away from promoting the growth of the game in Africa.
In 2008, one cannot actually hold on to any particular accomplishment of Emmanuel Adebayor, he did not emerge as highest goal scorer in the premiership nor did he help the national team of Togo to win any title. Arsenal did not win any silverware in the whole of 2008.
Mohammed Aboutrika of Egypt and Al-Ahly football club on the other hand was instrumental to Egypt’s 6th Nations Cup title win, he also won the Africa Champions League with his club Al-Ahly; both honors came in the year under review.

To most football pundits, Mohammed Aboutrika who was born on November 7, 1978 in Giza, Egypt is the ideal African Footballer of the year 2008. His greatest disadvantage comes from the fact that he plays in Africa. And by this, the administrators of the game of football in African has confirmed as inferior, the game of football in Africa. I see it as gross injustice against one of the best football playing nations in Africa; Egypt that has one of the best organized leagues in Africa.

I guess the only way for Mohammed Aboutrika to win African Footballer of the year is for him to leave Africa and head for Europe since our administrator do not seem to attach values to those Africans working relentlessly to promote the growth of the game by remaining within the continent of African.

Unfortunately, young Africans have continuously been victims of fraudulent scouts who promise them heaven on earth and make them believe that once they get to Europe they would be handed juicy contracts to play for top European clubs, only to see themselves playing for low division clubs whose standard is not comparable to where they are coming from.
African Administration must as a matter of urgency review the criteria used for choosing future winners of this important award.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Chelsea Sacks Luiz Felipe Scolari

Luiz Felipe Scolari’s reign at Stamford Bridge has come to abrupt end. Scolari enjoyed the full confidence and support of the management, players and fans of the London club, but recent events has proved that the big man has not been able to fit into the big shoes left by the ‘Special One’ Mourinho; who transformed the London club into a silverware winning side. He is currently making waves in the Italian serie ‘A’ league with Inter-Milan FC.

Scolari came with a lot of confidence and hope promising to return the club to winning ways after the sack of Mourinho’s successor; Avram Grant. This however has not been the case since Scolari took over at Stamford Bridge; he has shown his lack of ‘experience’ in club football management. His string of losses and scandalous draws most especially at home ground has broken the hearts of millions of fans world wide who week in week out throng out to support their darling Chelsea Football club.

During his short spell as head coach of Chelsea FC, the once dreaded London club became so vulnerable that the weakest of teams could now hold their own again Chelsea. The string of losses and scandalous draws at Stamford Bridge; the home of Chelsea football club did not help matters either.

In the current season, Chelsea has become the weeping team of the other clubs that make up the legendary ‘Big 4’ recently losing scandalously to Liverpool, Arsenal and the ‘almighty’ Manchester United.

Scolari possesses an intimidating international record; having achieved the highest glory achievable by any football coach, by winning the world cup with his native Brazil in 2002. He also did very well as head coach of Portugal, turning them into a world power in international football.
The lesson for Luiz Felipe Scolari however is that success at the world scene or country level does not automatically translate totally to success at club level; where the stars are groomed and nurtured. The world scene is just an avenue to showcase the stars that has been made at the club level. The club challenges are however more enormous, tasking and challenging as you have to deal with day to day training, discipline and welfare of your players and crew. At club level a lot of matches are played sometimes twice in a week, strategies are mapped out and reviewed with every match and you do not have the luxury of time to experiment as it is the case at country level.

Scolari lost his job after about 7 months in charge in which period he played a total of 25 premier league games as head coach of the Blues. He has only won 4 premier league matches in the last 12 matches. This is the first time Chelsea has not been able to collect 50 points from their first 25 games since Roman Abrahimovich acquired the London club. Their main ‘Achilles heel’ however has been their inability to garner enough points at home and their loss of their invincibility at home, losing their once taunted ‘unbeaten run’ at their home ground to Liverpool football club.

Among the top 5 premiership clubs, Chelsea has dropped the most points at home having dropped a total of 16 points at home. Chelsea is no longer dreaded and if things were allowed to continue the way it was going they could stand the risk of not qualifying for the 2009/2010 Champions’ league, and at worst not even winning any trophies or silverware for this current season.

The life of a football coach comprises of two major events; HIRE and FIRE. When you do well, you stay when you fail to deliver; you are shown the way out. Scolari is a great coach, but I believe he still has a lot to learn about football at club level. That goes to buttress the saying that “there is no end to learning” and in the world of NOKIA, is this beautiful thought provoking phrase “No One Knows It All”.

I wish Luiz Felipe Scolari the best in his future endeavours.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Tahitian Noni Juice, A 'GOLDMINE' Business Opportunity for Everyone

I have studied a lot of business opportunities out there, some are mere hypes and fallacies and indeed very misleading. I became so skeptical about every claims of financial freedom I come across, until I discovered a goldmine of a business opportunity.

The Tahitian Noni Business opportunity is indeed a 'Goldmine' of multilevel marketing businesses. Here, as a green horn, you are presented with 5 basic ways of making money fast....

#1. RETAIL PROFIT- This is the easiest of the five, where a new sign-up purchase a case of the amazing Tahitian Noni Juice at the company's very interesting price and resells same at a profit. To me this money enables you meet your immediate prospecting needs like; paying for your phone bills when contacting new prospects and in the course of building your team.

#2. PERSONAL REBATE - Every Independent Product Consultant is required to purchase a case of Tahitian Noni Juice each month (A case contains 4 bottles of 1 Litre of Tahitian Noni Juice). In any situation where any IPC purchases an additional case or cases within the same month, he receives a $24 payment per each additional case. The up-lines also receive various amount of money for the extra cases purchased by the IPC.

#3. FAST START BONUS - Every IPC is rewarded for buiding his organization, this bonus puts money into the hands of any IPC that takes steps to building his organization. For instance, the recruiting IPC earnes $24 for every new IPC he signs up for the first 60 days, this also means that whatever number of cases purchased within this FSB period attracts this earning. (For example, if the new IPC purchases 20 cases of Tahitian Noni Juice within this period, you would be entitled to earn $24 x 20 = $480.) He also earns $6 for any IPC that joins at his second level, $6 for those who join at the 3rd and 4th levels and an amazing $12 for any new sign ups in the 5th level. This system enhances quick income and averts the usual frustration that comes with some multilevel organizations that requires a new distributor to achieve certain ranks or volume before he qualifies for any earnings.

#4. UNI-LEVEL COMMISSION (RESIDUAL INCOME) - This amazing lifetime earning comes on after the initial 60 days of you signing up your new IPC. And it presents anyone hungry for a guaranteed source of income a platform to achieve there dream. The deeper the organization the bigger the %age income available to you. Imagine these - 1st level = 1% ($1.20), 2nd & 3rd Levels 5 % ($6.00), 4th & 5th Levels = 6% ($7.20), 6th & 7th Levels = 7% ($8.40) and the 8th level attracts 8% ($9.60) While some other companies would want to diminish the percentage because they envisage the geometric explosion of the organization, TNI rather rewards you for that explosion. It is amazing.

#5. TOP PERFORMANCE BONUS - This is more like FREE money paid to any IPC who grows his organization's volume by 35% from one month to the other. The company sets aside 2% of their entire world wide sales, and shares this to every Independent Product Consultant that dare to achieve this feat on a pro-rata basis. Can you imagine earning additional $3,000 that you cannot even explain or calculate how it came?

This business is good. Come join me and you would not remain the same. Visit www.tahitiannoni.com/ogunsan for more information.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Avoidable Excuses

How your Excuses can stall your MLM goal

The multi level marketing system is a great business system that presents a level playing field for all categories of people irrespective of their academic qualification, experience and societal standing or status.

I have heard green horns in the multi level marketing system make great boasts about starting big. A friend of mine has been preparing to launch it big for about a year now. His reasons are as follows;

  1. He wants to be able to design and host a world class website where he would kick start his multi level marketing business.
  2. Wants to play safe by not talking to anyone personally about his business, but still wants to make his multi level marketing business very great.
  3. Hates being rejected by prospects.
  4. Wants to guarantee that he has a lot of money to be able to meet with the monthly order of products.

After listening to these excuses, I advised him thus.

  1. The start up capital of any good multi level marketing business does not have to be huge; this is one of the things that distinguish it from a traditional business setup.
  2. There is no way you can start and run an effective multi level marketing business without talking to people, mouth to mouth advertising has proved to be a very effective means of selling goods and services.
  3. Rejection is one of the excitements of the multi level marketing business. More often than not, you see some of the people that had rejected you in the past coming back to you when they begin to see you succeed.
  4. A good multi level marketer should be able to manage what he has to get what he wants.

Our limiting beliefs can become the major setback to effective start up of our multilevel marketing business and the sooner as we are able to overcome these objections, the more successful we could become.

Charles Ogunsan

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The Last Opportunity you will ever need

THERE ARE FEW PEOPLE TODAY THAT ARE LIVING THE
LIFE THEY DESIRE.


- ARE YOU TIRED OF JUST HAVING ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY
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OUT OF THE QUESTION.

- FEELING STRESSED AND GUILTY ABOUT MONEY TROUBLES.

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- AFRAID OF HEALTH RISKS THAT MAY RESULT FROM BEING UNFIT
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- A LACK OF EXCITEMENT ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.

- KNOWING YOU WANT TO CHANGE SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR LIFE
BUT IS UNSURE AS TO HOW TO GET STARTED.

- HAVING A DREAM BUT AFRAID TO DO WHAT IT TAKES TO ACHIEVE
IT.

- FRUSTRATED AND GUILTY THAT YOU ARE NOT LIVING UP TO YOUR
FULL POTENTIAL.

- FEELING THAT OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE ARE QUIETLY PASSING YOU
BY.


IF YOU ANSWERED “YES” TO ANY OF THE ABOVE THEN YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO CONTINUE READING ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE.






Someone once said that “Being Broke is a temporary situation, Being Poor is a mental state”.

WHO WE ARE……
- Product consultants for a unique all natural health product that is purchased every 1.8 seconds worldwide due to its powerful abilities to make people feel better.

- Product consultants for a product with no competitors. Dominates over 90% of its market.

- Consultants of a product that has incredible repeat business. In a
Published study almost 70% of users state they will continue using
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- In our first 5 Years in business we grew over 6000%, which is faster than IBM, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, and Microsoft.

- Our company achieved 2 Billion dollars in sales, faster than any other Company in the history of the world.

- In 11 years our company has achieved $4 Billion dollars in
Sales, …consider the fact that most companies do not attain $100
Million in their lifetime.

- We are the fastest growing private company in history. The 4th fastest among all Public/Private in the history of the world.

- We have made many of our Product consultants wealthy by paying more Commissions ($2 billion) faster than any other company in our Industry.

If you understand that never has there been such a Company with the potential to transform lives from poverty to wealth and health….then you owe it to yourself to see what we can offer you.




What we offer….

- A TRUE OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN TERMS OF WEALTH, FREEDOM OF TIME AND BETTER HEALTH. UTILIZING A DYNAMIC PRODUCT AND A SYSTEM THAT HAS EARNED MILLIONS FOR DISTRIBUTORS WORLD WIDE.

- BENEFIT FROM OUR SIMPLYFIED PROPRITARY TRAINING SYSTEM THAT IS EARNING MANY OF OUR DISTRIBUTORS A NEW $500 A MONTH INCOME, EVERY 3 TO 4 MONTHS.

- THE FORMULA TO BECOME FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT
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WE WILL GIVE YOU THE SAME METHODS USED FOR
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YOU WILL NEVER THINK THE SAME WAY AGAIN.

- HOW A FEW PART-TIME HOURS PER WEEK CAN GROW INTO AN INCOME, SIMILAR TO THOSE THAT ARE NOW EARNING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER YEAR.

HOW TO FIND OUT IF YOU QUALIFY….
WE OFFER A FREE PERSONAL PRESENTATION, OR AN INVITATION TO A GROUP PRESENTATION.

HERE IS A PROMISE….
IF YOU MAKE A DECISION TO CALL US, WE WILL RESPOND TO YOU IN A COURTEOUS, FRIENDLY, NON- PRESSURE AND INFORMATIVE MANNER. ALL YOU WILL BE DOING IS GETTING INFORMATION THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

Call, Charles Ogunsan on +234 802 3358 767
TNI Website: www.tahitiannoni.com/ogunsan.
email address: cogunsan@yahoo.com


“IF YOU ARE NOT IN NEED OF OUR OPPORTUNITY, PLEASE
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Friday, February 22, 2008

What makes Tahitian Noni Juice a Good Business Opportunity?

1. In its first 5 years in business TNI has done over one Billion dollars in Sales. Most companies do not do 100 million dollars in their entire lifetime.

2. TNI is one of the fastest growing companies in the history of the world. Dr. Scott Baird, CEO of Griffin Hill a widely respected market research company, stated, “There may not be 10 companies in the history of the world that equals Tahitian Noni International’s revenues growth in their first six years”.

Historical Comparisons A. Coca Cola - After 5 years in business Coca Cola was sold for $75,000.00 and it took them 40 years to reach half of what TNI did in 5 years.
B. Pepsi Cola - Pepsi cola went bankrupt twice and it took them 34 years to achieve what TNI did in 2 years.

C. Starbuck - It took Starbuck coffee franchise 17 years to achieve half of TNI revenue growth in year 2.

D. IBM - It took IBM 30 years to achieve what TNI did in years.

E. Microsoft - It took Microsoft 10 years to accomplish the revenue growth of what TNI did in 3 Years.

3. Millionaires are being created... TNI has paid out over $1.5 Billion dollars to distributors worldwide in only 10 years. 200 have earned over One million dollars and over 500 are expected by the end of 2008.

4. The product potential is tremendous. It has not touched 1% of the population in any country as yet.

5. No Competition - Of the numerous companies trying to sell their version of noni juice, “Tahitian noni juice” controls 95% of the market due to its Product superiority.
“Tahitian noni juice”- is the only noni juice endorsed by the government Of French Polynesia.
“Tahitian noni juice” - is the only juice endorsed by Dr.Ralphe Heinicke, the world’s foremost expert and scientist who discovered xeronine. TNI - is the only company in the world that can test for the active Ingredient Proxeronine which is the main reason why the juice works so well.

6. The compensation plan - is seamless without borders. The compensation Plan works the same in every country that TNI is doing business in. This means you may build in any country you wish, creating even more Opportunities to earn money on a global scale. There are seven different ways of being compensated, including earning Bonuses on distributors that are not part of your organization.

7. The system is duplicatable and affordable - for many who are seriously interested in changing their lives financially.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Tahitian Noni Juice - A Blueprint to Wealth

Tahitian Noni Juice is a great and wonderful product. It contains 150 nutraceuticals, which has a wide range of health application.
Every 1.8 seconds someone purchase a bottle worldwide.
There are no questions as to its potency.

The question you must ask yourself therefore is ....How come there are people making over $5000, $10,000, $100,000, $200,000, $300,000+ per month and you are not?
The answer lies in the understanding of wealth Creation.

Aside from inheriting, gambling, marriage, and Lawsuits, it is extremely difficult to earn enough money in your life time to become wealthy. If you look at any wealthy, financially Independent, or successful business person you will notice they have one thing in common.....and that is they have tapped into the secret of wealth which is Leverage. They have either put there money to work for them or they have found a way to leverage their time.
This concept of leverage is universal and goes all they way back
to the ancient Babylonians.
The concept is practice everyday in our very own families. For example, a Family of four... Father, mother and two very young children (under 10). In many instances the Father is out working and is the only Income earner because the mother has to stay home with the children. In this situation there is not much leverage.

However, as the Children gets older to the point where the Mother may not need to stay home full time, and decides to work part or full time; she now becomes a second income earner in the Family and therefore increase the overall income of the family. In some cases, the children when older may even get part time jobs and further increase the income of the family. This is Leverage, for you have the power of multiple people working, generating more productivity and creating a higher Income.

If you look at any business, the owner(s) makes more money because they are benefiting from the income, of multiple people producing goods and services for them. A business owner who has 30 people working for him will always make more money because his compensation is not based on exchanging time for pay, but rather the combined productivity of 30 people.

You need to know that only way to be wealthy is to generate enough productivity, in order to produce the type of money that you don’t have to worry about any Bills for the rest of your life. This productivity can only come from having the power of many people working on your behalf.