The government in what was once the Western Region (divided now between Lagos and Western State) built stadia, TV stations and scaled up its free education programme using profits from cocoa, as well as taxes.
They all went before the 2012 Olympics, he says, to build the stadia.
Since the formation of the Premier League, football grounds in England have seen constant improvements to capacity and facilities, with some clubs moving to new-build stadia.
Man did not build arenas and stadia for sport alone, and horticulturists did not design public parks merely for plants.
There is no need to build the stunning stadia and skyscrapers the Chinese have constructed: the infrastructure exists already.
This can only be achieved if Qatar respects the rights of the key people who will deliver that World Cup: the workers who build the World Cup stadia and the players who play in them," Brendan Schwab, Division Asia chairman of Fifpro, said.
"The premise was this: that football stadia built in most cases around a hundred years ago... could accommodate between fifteen and sixty-three thousand people without those people coming to any harm," Nick Hornby wrote in his 1992 soccer memoir, "Fever Pitch".
"There are not going to be any more stadia built but there are other projects.
