Jet-Lag Olympic eagles falls in Rio

Just when so many Nigerians thought the Jet-lag issues has been thrashed off the sensory cells of the Nigerian dream team Olympics eagles, the sensory wire got reignited at the 11th hour when no one expected such crass emergency given the precedence of how quick the Jet-legginess spirit left the dream team V1 on arrival at Rio, most especially during their first and second game against Japan and Sweden, before their eventual lost to Colombia, in what many thought was a gave to nature's call. The team's charisma, determination, focus and resilient which shows absolutely no signs of been jet-lagged in their fist game against Japan, proved so many scientific postulations wrong as they went against the odds of a gravitational earth pull, to winning a game not even the devil thought was a possibility. Infact, their showman performances during the group stages of the competition left certain soccer pundits rewriting the Olympic scripts as so many views got changing within a space of just two games prior to the third. Hmm! The views of soccer analyst eventually got cemented, when this same Olympic eagles took the Scandinavians by surprise at the Quarter-finals, as they stylishly defeated them in a two goal thriller that left many astounded given the odds that the Danes of Denmark prior to that game at the Fonte Nova Arena, had earlier defeated the dream team V1 so brazenly at the SUWON tournament in South Korea earlier in June to  a 6-2 advantage. Well, all this put together, not only changed the Olympic script entirely but also gave many Nigerians the confidence of a possible Atlanta repeat glory which have remain elusive ever since the golden boys left the movie scene in silence. *sigh* so much hope i swear.

Well, filled with so much expectations and excitements, Nigerians watched with keen eyes all fixed to the Semi-Finals against the Germans who though appeared not only as the better side, but also, as one of the tournament favourites, going by their soccer display against the Portuguese Olympic team, who were sent packing out of the competition in Rio after an embarrassing four goal thriller they suffered at the hands of the Germans. Hmm! no b small German machine. Well, just like the aforementioned note above, since the script has been changed by an Olympic eagles who defiled all scientific soccer explanation in the first game and by extension, second and third, the confidence knew no bounds as the team set out in style in giving Nigerians the much needed win they have ceaselessly craved for even before the game started. Hmm! hope about to be dashed. 

First, it all started like a huge joke as the Germans went in front contrary to popular opinion, though not surprising going by their four goal bashing of the Portuguese team. But what was surprising became the noticed Jet-Lag attitude shown by the Nigerian dream team at the pitch of play even worst than that they ought to have experienced in their first game if it has happened then and there. Jeez! i can somebody exclaim!  But Brotherly, that was the battle nobody saw coming, that was a bad spirit no fortune teller postulated, not even the best of all soccer witch doctors as according to the football register, all was well. Well, since it wasn't anticipated, the confidence build refused to fall on soccer fans as the second half they assume will just be enough for coach Samson Siasia to notice the legs of his boys and reignites them for the second 45 minutes before it becomes too late. Mehn! this is really a dream. 

Brotherly, just as if the name dream team is fasts turning into a nightmare of negative experience, the second half eventually started but nothing seems improving as the German machine continued their quest of dominance, even surging higher for more goals, pushing and pressing their opponent to the goal area thereby instilling more Jet-Lag spirit into their already tired legs. First, the boys were no longer connecting, secondly, there were beginning to loose focus, thirdly, they were showing glaringly signs of defeat even the before the end of 90 minutes and lastly, the Atlanta dream became a secondary affair to them as they showed no positive signs of dreaming again. Guy! they stop been martin lurther king right there on the pitch to the dismay of many who had put so much confidence and trust on them. Hmm! take heart my brother! lengthy stories isn't just enough to convey her badly they played. But then, the reality was what transpired when the team played as if they were bewitched prior to the match.

That was how they lost the crown even before the referee gave his final verdict. Atlanta story drowning so fast even before fans could say Jack Robinson as the Nigerian Dream Team V1 Olympic eagles bowed sheepishly to defeat even though the Germans wasn't that brilliant despite their two goal win at the Corinthians, Sao Paulo Stadia in Rio. Dream team stopped dreaming, laws of karma came hunting, Atlanta story ended, what a sad note to end a beautiful campaign.


Written: Dickson Eyinmosan