NFF Celebrates Kunle Solaja As He Is Honoured At FIFA World Cup In Qatar

The Nigeria Soccer Federation has congratulated foremost journalist, prolific writer and revered diarist, Mr. Kunle Solaja on the event of his being honoured by world soccer -governing physique, FIFA in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday.

Alongside 81 different journalists of reputation who’ve attended and reported at practically a rating of the quadrennial international soccer fiesta and different glamour tournaments, Solaja, a fomer Sports activities Editor of Harmony Newspapers and the Guardian Newspapers, was awarded a certificates of feat and a reproduction of the World Cup trophy, offered by Brazilian legend Ronaldo.

Solaja, presently the chief govt of on-line sports activities publication, www.sportsvillagesquare.com, was one in all solely two Africans on the record, the opposite being South African Mark Gleeson.

“In the present day, we’re proud to congratulate and have fun one in all our personal, Mr. Kunle Solaja, for the honour bestowed on him by FIFA. To attend 10 FIFA World Cup finals will not be a joke. Mr. Solaja is a person competent, diligent and keen about his commerce, and we be part of FIFA to have fun him as an illustrious servant of the attractive recreation,” NFF Basic Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, mentioned in Abuja.

The certificates of feat was collectively signed by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and President of AIPS (the worldwide umbrella physique for sports activities writers), Gianni Merlo.

Star of the straightforward however memorable ceremony was 88-year-old Enrique Macaya Márquez, an Argentine freelancer who’s masking his seventeenth FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and whose tally is another than Uruguayan Diego Lucero, who earlier than his loss of life in 1995, had coated each FIFA World Cup match between 1930 and 1994.

Solaja’s illustrious odyssey started in 1986 in Mexico, and he has since attended the World Cup finals in Italy in 1990, USA in 1994, France in 1998, Korea/Japan in 2002, Germany in 2006, South Africa in 2010, Brazil in 2014 and Russia in 2018, earlier than the continuing finals in Qatar.

Other than his demanding vocation and dedication to writing historical past in a rush, which is the lot of the journalist, Solaja has now written 4 exceptional books on Nigeria soccer, specifically Tremendous Eagles…By The Ages, Going For Targets…Unfolding Nigerian Soccer’s Hidden Tales, Tremendous Eagles @70…Hovering on The Wings and TESILIMI ‘THUNDER’ BALOGUN…The Making Of A Legend

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