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Let me tell you how I started playing that style. After the Nations Cup, we were called back to camp for the World Cup qualifiers against Tunisia. Remember it was Tunisia that stopped us from going to the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. After we won the Nations Cup, our first game was against Tunisia. When we were called to camp, Otto Gloria recalled those that played in the final of the 1980 Nations Cup, and they formed the first team. I was in the second team and I realised we had too many midfielders-the likes of Sefiu Mohammed, Eugene Ohabunwa, Austin Fregene and many others who I cannot remember because they were not with us during the Nations Cup. I am talking about the second team or Team B, because I did not play in the final match of the Nations Cup. … [Read more...] about Sylvanus Okpala: I was small but mighty

That began to change with Pinochet’s arrest in London. “It was Garzón who woke the world up to this,” Laura Elgueta told me. As Pinochet’s arrest highlighted, amnesty laws did not provide universal protection, and Condor was a weak spot. In retrospect, those who expected lifelong impunity for their involvement in Condor made three key mistakes. First of all, they stole children, a crime that even amnesties did not cover. Second, they wrongly assumed that amnesties would cover crimes committed on foreign soil. Finally, they hid their killings by making victims disappear – thereby turning those crimes into ongoing, unresolved kidnappings, which, unlike a murder where a body is found, cannot be covered by a statute of limitations or an amnesty for past events. These errors allowed a bold group of prosecutors and judges to bypass amnesty laws in a handful of carefully selected cases. These, in turn, revealed such ghastly truths that some governments were … [Read more...] about Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America

If the male was quicker to the draw and grabbed the female with its serrated raptorial forelegs, he stood a 78% chance of escaping unscathed. And when, in addition, the male inflicted a serious but non-fatal wound to the abdomen, he kept his head every time. … [Read more...] about How the male mantis avoids being decapitated after mating

The boys' dad, 23-year-old Vahit Al Alu, was reportedly devastated when he returned home from work to find that his two sons had died inside the burning house. … [Read more...] about Two brothers, 1 and 4, burn to death after ‘feckless mum left them by burning stove to warm them up and left the house’

David Weaver, 62, suffered injuries across his entire body—including the face, back and lower torso—and was hospitalized after the unprovoked incident, which occurred late last week at Louisville's Shawnee Park, roughly a mile into his daily walk. … [Read more...] about Man Mauled by Three Pit Bulls At Kentucky Park Left ‘Pretty Chewed Up’