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Time of India
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Official: Nigerian football legend Sunday Oliseh appointed to IFAB
The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has appointed Nigerian football legend Sunday Oliseh as a member of its Football Advisory Panel. Such an appointment signifies the passion Oliseh carries for the game of football, on and off the pitch. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now This appointment makes it a significant development for the entire Nigerian nation. Sunday Oliseh's distinguished football journey Former Nigerian footballer Sunday Oliseh has a rich career history sprinkled with many accolades. On the international level as a player, he represented the Nigerian football team 63 times, winning the Africa Cup of Nations in the year 1994. He has also claimed an Olympic gold medal in the year 1996. Just like Jürgen Klopp, Oliseh exhibited his talent in top-tier European football, where he earned his stripes with top clubs like Ajax, Juventus, and Borussia Dortmund. Following his retirement as a player, Sunday Oliseh turned his attention to coaching and football administration, managing the Nigerian national team, the Super Eagles. He has also previously managed clubs in Europe. FIFA has acknowledged his expertise by appointing him to its technical study groups, including during the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Oliseh worked with the likes of Arsène Wenger and Jürgen Klinsmann in these roles, helping to not only analyse the game but to help shape its next phase at the highest level. IFAB's role and Sunday Oliseh's contribution The International Football Association Board (IFAB) decides the Laws of the Game in football. IFAB has also committed to appointing people like Sunday Oliseh to its Football Advisory Panel in order to have a range of voices and experiences represented as it charts a course for the game's next stage. Having had an extensive playing and coaching career, as well as a spell as a technical director, Oliseh is in an ideal position to assess the modern game and its challenges. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Also Read: This is not just an individual achievement for him, but also recognition of the African presence in football governance at the international level. As Oliseh takes on this new position after an impressive playing career having had some success of his own recently as a coach, those within the football community will watch closely to see how he positions the game moving forward in such uncertain times, or times when it is easy for people to take away from what makes football as great as it is.
CNN
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
This Nigerian designer is making waves with her ‘four-dimensional' fashion
She's the sister of Nigerian soccer legend Sunday Oliseh, but now Tessy Oliseh-Amaize is becoming something of a celebrity in her own right, making a name for herself in the US fashion scene. As founder of the Tesslo fashion brand, and a former science student, she produces a distinctively modern take on traditional wax print ankara designs, with her vision inspired as much by mathematics as classic aesthetics. The style is showcased in her 'Africa to the World' collection, featuring designs that infuse elements of African culture in colorful ankara fabrics. Each design takes four to eight weeks to create, using carefully conceived geometric shapes to create an optical illusion of depth, and patterns she describes as 'moving in a four-dimensional way.' 'I realized that in designing, the Pythagoras theorem comes to play,' said Oliseh-Amaize, referencing the formula for calculating the relationship between the sides of a triangle. 'My designs are all mathematics. You need to think of shapes and even calculate shapes that do not exist.' 'Pyramids' is a knee-length dress made from one of the most common ankara fabrics and inspired by the pyramids of Giza, with prism-like shapes arranged in alternating directions. 'Mpi' is Oliseh-Amaize's take on a varsity jacket, embellished with rows of protruding cones, a nod to the animal horns used in Nigeria's traditional Igbo culture for weddings, chieftaincy titles and as a musical instrument. 'For Pyramids, I used geometric calculations, which is a very complex technique in fashion design,' Oliseh-Amaize said, while for Mpi, 'I manipulated the fabric in geometrical dimensions to create each one of those horns. I thought that the real beauty of executing this inspiration would be more impactful if I have them all together in a cluster around the outfit.' Oliseh-Amaize's design journey started out in the UK, at Middlesex University London, where she studied Fashion Product Management at the start of the millennium. A major break came after she returned to Nigeria and was crowned the country's best designer at the 2006 Nigerian Fashion Show competition. She began designing for TV shows, and eventually relocated to the US, which she said 'was like starting afresh.' Unlike Nigeria, where there's a ready demand for ankara clothing, she had to prove her creativity to an American clientele, which meant 'taking it to the next level.' Now based in Washington, DC, her eye-catching designs are increasingly in the spotlight. Last September she was invited to close the Ankara Festival Los Angeles, which celebrates African fashion, and her works were also shown at the Congressional Black Caucus and Philly Fashion Week that month. After the Ankara Festival, she said in a statement, 'Outside Africa, when people hear 'African prints,' it is as if the expectation is that it's not truly African unless it looks primitive or poorly made. I'm rebelling against that. African fashion is rich, diverse, and deserves to be seen as sophisticated and high-quality.' It's a stance that's earning her celebrity supporters. Folake Olowofoyeku, star of US sitcom 'Bob Hearts Abishola,' wore Tesslo's 'Hollywood' dress at the Ankara Festival, a design inspired by old-school Hollywood glamour, with sleeve cuffs shaped like mid-century lamps. Oliseh-Amaize has also received a commission by celebrity stylist J. Bolin for one of his high-profile clients. As Oliseh-Amaize establishes her own identity, she is stepping out of the shadow of her famous brother, who played for European soccer teams including Ajax and Juventus in 1990s and 2000s, as well as playing for and managing Nigeria's national team. Growing up, 'Everyone calling me Sunday Oliseh's sister didn't mean I had it easy,' she told CNN, saying that she would be overcharged when buying equipment, because people assumed she had money. 'I had to work extra hard to get things,' she added. Now, Oliseh-Amaize is helping younger designers through her 'Fashion Professor' project. She has held 35 mentoring sessions on Instagram about everything from understanding different fabrics to knowing how to bill clients, teaching young designers to navigate the industry and to aspire beyond Nigeria. 'I looked at how I could inspire the next generation of fashion designers within and beyond Nigeria and decided to mentor them and help them avoid my own mistakes while charting their own unique paths,' she explained. Her innovations in ankara designs come at a time when more Western designers are exploring the fabric. Oliseh-Amaize says they have the opportunity to do so because they can more easily access funding, which is not always the case for Nigerian designers. She emphasizes that African designers should not limit their thoughts to designing or selling to only Africans, and Oliseh-Amaize would like to see a time when a Nigerian brand can sell out in international department stores like Harrods or Macy's. While her fashion creations are deeply rooted in Africa, Oliseh-Amaize insists that her identity as a designer goes beyond that. 'I don't want to be put in a box and labeled an African designer,' she said. 'I want to be identified as a global brand designing for the global market. This is what would make me fulfilled.'
