Eriokanmi: I don't see Gillette anymore in the world tournament advert boards when playing in the pitch , Sharp and Budweiser too. Are they not sponsoring fifa World tournaments again? Good old days.
@Naptu2, you should have posted those videos in black and white too, to relive the memories because only about 25% of the Nigerian populations had a coloured TV back in the 80s and they were majorly in the cities. Whenever the network was off a TV channel in those days, it would be sounding as if a heavy rain was falling . You'd even see the display on the screen. Nigeria was still very good back then.
No much difference between the rich and poor in the 80s as seen today. My school principal was driving a 505 Evolution Peugeot which he bought with his money. There was fuel everywhere. The fuel colour back then was red in colour, do you remember? What we buy nowadays is like thinner. It dries and burns out so fast. Scammers have taken over power. Same people who once enjoyed Nigeria's good old days.
May God judge those who have destroyed this country like this.
We got our first colour TV in 1979. Previously we used a gigantic black and white TV. We still had that gigantic black and white TV till 1993 (we used it whenever the colour TVs were not working).
In 1985 my dad travelled to Japan and they gave him a gift of a TV set. That's the first TV set that we had that had a digital tuner. Previously the TV sets were tuned with dials, one for VHF and one for UHF.
naptu2: I keep seeing posts (on Nairaland and Twitter) by people who claim that foreign football, especially English football, was not shown on Nigerian television before the year 2000. This is very shocking to me because I watched Brazilian, German, English, Dutch and other foreign football matches on my TV here in Lagos in the 1970s, '80s and 1990s. It has shocked me into creating this thread about football programmes (both foreign and local) that were shown on Nigerian TV in the 1970s, '80s and 1990s.
1) Brazilian Football: You did not watch television in the late 1970s and early 1980s if you don't know about Brazilian Football. It was a tradition. It was produced by O'Rede Globo and shown on the NTA at 10pm on Sundays. Vasco da Gama, Flamengo, Fluminense, Sao Paulo, I watched them all. This was a popular programme in Nigeria back then, so you did not watch TV if you don't know about it.
This was during the era of Zico, Socrates, etc. Do you remember that chewing gum that had pictures of the players (especially players at the 1982 World Cup)? I can't remember its name, but I remember that the pictures of Zico and Paulo Rossi were in high demand.
O' Globo also produced a variety programme called Fantastico, which was also shown at the weekends in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
2) Football Made In Germany: This was initially shown in the late 1970s and early 1980s, then it was stopped in the mid-1980s, then it was started again in 1990 (after Germany won Italia '90)and ran till almost 1999. Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and all the Bundesliga teams featured on the show. The commentator was Tobi Charles and this was the format:
They would show short clips of last week's matches, then they'll show about 30 to 40 minutes of one of this week's matches (that would be the main match of the week), then they would show highlights of other matches that took place that week.
It was on Football Made in Germany that I watched Karl Heinz Rumenigge, Franz Beckenbauer, etc in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the fantastic teams of Eintracht Frankfurt, Dortmund, Bayern Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne in the 1990s.
There were Anthony Yeboah (the Ghanaian Yekini), Jay Jay Okocha and Maurizio Gaudino in Eintracht Frankfurt. I remember a match in which Okocha dribbled the entire Bayern Munich defence and beat Oliver Kahn, only to miss the goal by less than an inch. The momentum of his run took him behind the goal and Jean-Pierre Papin (the legendary French striker who played for Bayern at the time) came to meet him and pulled his shirt over his head (Toby Charles said that it was as if Papin was saying, "How can you dribble everybody, beat the keeper and fail to score?" )
I watched Jonathan Akpoborire (Johnny as Toby Charles called him) play for Hansa Rostock, watched Sunday Oliseh at Cologne, etc. I remember how the fans would chant Heeeiiiiiiikkkkkoooooo Heerrrrrrllllich.
I remember Andreas Moller and Julio Ceaser at Dortmund, etc,
Football Made in Germany was produced by Transtel Cologne and they also produced TeleMatch and Musicladen (which was called Top of the Pops in Nigeria), both of which were shown in the 1970s and early 1980s and again in the 1990s and many detective shows that were shown in the 1990s.
This (in the video below) is basically the same programme, but this one was produced for the United States, so the name is Soccer Made in Germany. The version that was produced for the NTA was called Football Made in Germany.
3) Big League Soccer: I remember this, although I did not watch it as religiously as I watched Brazilian Football and Football Made in Germany. This is English football and I remember watching Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, Kevin Keegan and Bruce Grobbelaar (the Zimbabwean) on this show. The NTA also showed a lot of other English football games (FA Cup final, etc) but they were often irregular (not at set specific times).
4) Serie A: Serie A was the best league in the world back then and I believe that this show was also started because Italy was going to host the World Cup in 1990.
5) Segun Odegbami: NTA2 Channel 5 began a breakfast programme called Morning Ride, so NTA Channel 10 started a lunch programme. It was perfect for Channel 10 because Channel 5 had a habit of going on break from 12pm till 4pm during the weekends, so this was an opportunity for Channel 10 to steal some viewers.
The lunch programme was called The Sunday Show and it had celebrities that hosted segments in the show. Fran Kuboye hosted the art segment and Segun Odegbami hosted the sports segment.
Big Sheg had a habit of showing lots of clips of Belgian, Dutch and French league matches. This wasn't a surprise because Nigerian players were flocking to Belgium and Holland in the late 1980s.
The Sunday Show was shown on NTA Channel 10 from around 11am or noon on Sunday.
This segment became a separate show of its own around 1990. That was where I first saw Tony Akiotu. He was Segun Odegbami's assistant. It was now a one hour show and they showed lots of clips. I remember that they had a competition for goal of the tournament after Senegal '92.
Big Sheg also hosted a Serie A show on NTA2 Channel 5 from 1989 till 1990.
6) Sports World/Sports Spectacular: This programme had different names, but I call it Sports World because the BBC also had a similar programme that was called Sports World.
This programme was shown on the NTA from 4pm till 7pm. It featured any kind of sports. The show usually started at 3pm if Nigeria was going to play a match that Saturday.
Like I said, this show featured any and every kind of sports. If Nigeria was playing, then the live match would be on the show. Nigeria often played junior world cups in places with odd time zones like China, Canada, Japan, Chile, etc in the 1980s and the matches took place at night, Lagos time, so there would be a repeat of the match on Sports World on Saturday.
The Champions League was shown on the NTA beginning from 1994 and the matches were usually repeated on Sports World on Saturday.
They also showed documentaries about European football, Brazilian football, etc. If something significant had happened elsewhere, there would be a short clip of it on Sports World.
7) UEFA Champions League on CFI: Canal France International had the rights to the UEFA Champions League and the NTA began showing it in 1994. The commentator was usually Archie Macpherson.
I remember that this was where I watched that epic match between Barcelona and Manchester United in 1994. Romario and Stoichkov combined to punish United.
I remember that there was an instance when Stoichkov failed to pass to Romario, even though Romario was in a better position. Romario complained and Stoichkov said, "F**k off" and Archie Macpherson said, "Well I hope you can't lip read". But Stoichkov and Romario combined to score another goal just moments later. Barcelona beat United 4-0 at the Camp Nou.
8 ) Bournvita Match of the Day: Of course there was the Nigerian league and from c1986 till c1988 this was shown at 10pm as part of Bournvita Match of the Day. The intro was fantastic. Part of the intro featured an old man that was at the stadium. He was so engrossed in the match that was taking place in front of him that he was moving his hands and legs as if he was a player on the pitch.
I watched stars like Uwem Ekarika (Calabar Rovers), Osaro Obobaifo (Bendel Insurance), Bright Omokaro, etc on this show. It was hosted by Akinloye Oyebanji and others.
9) The Best of Football: Godwin Dudu Orumen's Pepsi The Best of Football began around 1992 and continued into the 2000s. They also showed lots of clips of European league matches. They had a news segment, they had discussion segments and they also had a match of the week.
10) Rothmans: English football made a comeback with Rothmans English Premier League around 1994 or 1995. The format was very similar to Football Made in Germany.
11 ) Satellite: Of course, in the late 1990s you could also watch the English Premier League on Supersports.
Multichoice came to Nigeria in 1993, but they didn't prioritise the kind of sports that Nigerians loved (that is, football and athletics). People complained, so eventually, sometime around 1997, they created Supersports 3 to show football.
12) TV Africa: TV Africa was a free television service that came to challenge Multichoice in the late 1990s (around 1998). It was based in South Africa, but registered in Mauritius. They syndicated their programmes to terrestrial TV stations across Africa and many of the new private TV stations in Nigeria showed their content. They got the free to air rights for the English Premier League and even the NTA took footage from them.
13) Mastersports: This show was created by Danladi Bako, who also created Morning Ride. It began in 1990 or 1991 and it was shown on NTA2 Channel 5 from noon (after the news) on Saturdays. The hosts were Paul Bassey (aka Sports Bassey, he was the sports editor of Champion Newspapers), Chris Eseka, Mitchell Obi and Sam John. Paul Bassey was the main anchor. They often showed clips of Nigerian professionals abroad, reviewed the sports pages of the newspapers, discussed important issues in Nigerian sports.
Something very funny happened one day in 1990 or 1991. I was watching the show with two people. I was sitting on the chair close to the TV, while the other two were on a coach at the other side of the room. Then Paul Bassey said, "We are still expecting our guests Mr *** and Mr ***". He mentioned the names of the two people on the coach. I looked at the couch, then looked at the TV. I looked at the people on the coach and then looked at the TV again. They started laughing and one of them said, "Don't mind them".
This list is not exhaustive, but it should give you an idea of what I mean when I say that Nigerians did not just start watching foreign football in the year 2000.
You forgot Road to Wembley in the Late 70s and early 80s.
We got our first colour TV in 1979. Previously we used a gigantic black and white TV. We still had that gigantic black and white TV till 1993 (we used it whenever the colour TVs were not working).
In 1985 my dad travelled to Japan and they gave him a gift of a TV set. That's the first TV set that we had that had a digital tuner. Previously the TV sets were tuned with dials, one for VHF and one for UHF.
Your family must be among the 20% populace who had a coloured TV in the 80s and this percentage was concentrated in the cities. Even the black and white used to be at selected houses then. I remember people coming to our house to watch football cos they didn't have a TV in their homes.
naptu2: I know that I've posted videos of this game once or twice, but it's so good that I've got to post it again.
Picture this.
It's a Saturday in 1994. I had had a very tasking day and I achieved victory after all the hard work. I was tired and hungry. I got home around 4pm and a huge and wonderful lunch was waiting for me and this was on the TV. It was just wonderful.
The things that Romario did to this Manchester United defence were just unbelievable. There was a time that he pretended that he was going to play a shot and the entire United defence went in the direction that the shot should have gone. Instead, he brought the ball back and played it in a different direction.
The game was full of entertaining events. There was a time that Stoichkov went for goal when Romario was in a better position (he should have passed to Romario). Romario complained after Stoichkov missed and Stoichkov replied with, "Bleep off". The commentator, Archie MacPherson said, "Well I hope you can't lip read". Yet, a minute later, Stoichkov and Romario combined beautifully to score the third goal and they hugged themselves.
We also got to see a Ronald Koeman freekick. It was just pure entertainment.
Romario, Stoichkov, Koeman, Jordi Cruyff, Albert Ferrer, Pep Guardiola, etc. destroyed Manchester United.
I remember Big league soccer, Gillette world sport? And those chewing gums with football cards of players pics ( used these for our table soccer teams) After all of these I would always run to the comic shop once every week for my football comics ( Roy of the Rovers) alongside my DC and Marvel Comics... Childhood was sweet though 😁
Eriokanmi: I don't see Gillette anymore in the world tournament advert boards when playing in the pitch , Sharp and Budweiser too. Are they not sponsoring fifa World tournaments again? Good old days.
@Naptu2, you should have posted those videos in black and white too, to relive the memories because only about 25% of the Nigerian populations had a coloured TV back in the 80s and they were majorly in the cities. Whenever the network was off a TV channel in those days, it would be sounding as if a heavy rain was falling . You'd even see the display on the screen. Nigeria was still very good back then.
No much difference between the rich and poor in the 80s as seen today. My school principal was driving a 505 Evolution Peugeot which he bought with his money. There was fuel everywhere. The fuel colour back then was red in colour, do you remember? What we buy nowadays is like thinner. It dries and burns out so fast. Scammers have taken over power. Same people who once enjoyed Nigeria's good old days.
May God judge those who have destroyed this country like this.
Budweiser was sponsoring the world cup sort of....and Leo Messi...last year.
As for Sharp....Sharp (a Japanese company that made a host of electronics) is not the juggernaut it used to be. Most of its TV businesses have been taken over by Chinese companies.
We got our first colour TV in 1979. Previously we used a gigantic black and white TV. We still had that gigantic black and white TV till 1993 (we used it whenever the colour TVs were not working).
In 1985 my dad travelled to Japan and they gave him a gift of a TV set. That's the first TV set that we had that had a digital tuner. Previously the TV sets were tuned with dials, one for VHF and one for UHF.
Lol.. I don't remember ever watching black and white tv but I know there was one big old one in the store room where things are kept. All our TV's then in the 80's were coloured with those UHF and VHF dials. I remember the biggest was a Grundig. Popsy got that from one of his biz trips to Germany then with a very huge washing machine that my mom threatened me with when my results came out 9th position in primary one I had to buckle up the next term or risk being thrown into it 😁
Sports extra with Mitchell Obi, Mundia Spots International (forgotten the names of the two presenters), Back pass by Larry Izamoje and a host of others that I've forgotten. Also, we do watch Champions League football on NTA and AIT. Live matches on Tuesday evening on AIT and delayed matches on Wednesday on I think NTA. The champions league then was shown by Connor France international (CFI). Gone are the days.
Budweiser was sponsoring the world cup sort of....and Leo Messi...last year.
As for Sharp....Sharp (a Japanese company that made a host of electronics) is not the juggernaut it used to be. Most of its TV businesses have been taken over by Chinese companies.
Slayar: This is the problem with Gen Z ,they think everything started during their time . MBI was showing premiership back then ,I remember football made in Germany well.
We watched champions league on CFI ,almost all stations tuned in to broadcast champions league including NTA.
Characteristics of Gen Z ,"Guardiola is the best coach " they always think football started during their time .
You think Marcelo was good ,wait till you see Cafu or Roberto Carlos.
Mbi ke ... Na DBN I dey watch ooo... MBI hot when AIT sef hot... And LTV wey dey show hot movies in the late night on and two on fridays
Ventura1: Best of football with Godwin Dudu Orumen on Sunday afternoon was my favorite, it was all actions. Unlike mastersport, with boring talk by Mitchell obi and Paul bassey.
Dudu Orumen analysed football better . Mitchell Obi was more of a marketer ,him talk too much.
I remember this show too ... Before that rotating antenna come then
I waited for Friday nights just to watch great movies. We never talk about how you had to call radio stations to request some songs before you can hear it ,unlike now you can download it.
That R.Carlos left foot na thunder, I remember he scored a thunderous freekick from the center circle. I also remember that great square play pass to Zidane where Zidane rifled home against Leverkusen at the ucl final in 2002
Yes,Carlos was a handful at the back and added a lot to the attack upfront ,him shot na thunder. I remember that time people wey wan stand for wall go dey fear.
Yeah, Gillette World of Sports was one of those omnibus sports shows.
There used to be ABC Wide World of Sports, The Champions ( "They run, they jump, etc) in the early 1980s, then George Michael Sports Machine, Gillette World of Sports and Trans World Sports (I have been trying to remember that name for a long time) in the late 1980s and 1990s.
I remembered clapperboard and Cabletel linking with carnal + and euros port before the birth of supersport
DBN 12-6pm sport show on Saturday with Deji n Calister etc was great too. That station just die like that.
Then came MBI with french leauge1....MbI too died like that
Ventura1: Best of football with Godwin Dudu Orumen on Sunday afternoon was my favorite, it was all actions. Unlike mastersport, with boring talk by Mitchell obi and Paul bassey.
Mastersports was also interesting. You remember Mike Maiyaki, Tanko Yunusa Abdullahi, Justin Ofor? There was also hotsports by Taye Ige around that time. Then Paul Ogazi or Abdulrahman Ibn Mohammad would come by 4pm for one sports program like that.
allytinted: Sports extra with Mitchell Obi, Mundia Spots International (forgotten the names of the two presenters), Back pass by Larry Izamoje and a host of others that I've forgotten. Also, we do watch Champions League football on NTA and AIT. Live matches on Tuesday evening on AIT and delayed matches on Wednesday on I think NTA. The champions league then was shown by Connor France international (CFI). Gone are the days.
Felix Okugbe and Oma Akatugba. The opening sequence featured Jay Jay dribbling that Denmark player with his signature move in France 98. I always looked forward to seeing that piece of skill.
Slayar: This is the problem with Gen Z ,they think everything started during their time . MBI was showing premiership back then ,I remember "Football Made in Germany" well.
We watched Champions league on CFI ,almost all stations tuned in to broadcast champions league including NTA.
Characteristics of Gen Z ,"Guardiola is the best coach " they always think football started during their time .
You think Marcelo was good ,wait till you see Cafu or Roberto Carlos.
Don't mind them jor. The day Marcelo recreates that Banana free kick Roberto Carlos scored years ago, the Gen-z people will go bunker. 😂😂😂
. You'd even see the display on the screen. Nigeria was still very good back then.