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Dolphins FC of Port Harcourt manager, Stanley Eguma, says the team is prepared to play in the CAF Champions League. Dolphins will play their first match at away, against a club from Equatorial Guinea later this month. Eguma told sportswriters in Port H...
The two most successful teams in the last seven years Man United and Chelsea will clash today at Stamford Bridge in this early awaited encounter. Man United and Chelsea have won the league between them in the last seven season and in previous seasons, ...
It’s West Africa versus North Africa today as tournament favourites Ghana will tonight take on Tunisia for the semi final ticket in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations. With the absence of big guns, Ghana and Ivory Coast have been installed as the ...
John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy, sources close to the defender have told BBC Sport.The 31-year-old Chelsea centre-back was informed of the decision by Football Association chairman David Bernstein in a phone call at 1000 GMT.He is...
Football enthusiasts on Thursday in Lagos expressed shock over the death of a former Super Falcons’ player, Felicia Eze, who died in Anambra, aged 38. In separate interviews with newsmen, the fans described Eze's death as a great loss to the ...
Sierra Leone’s Under-20 Women Football team has withdrawn from the African qualifiers of the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, a Nigeria Football Association (NFA) official said. NFA's Chief Technical Officer, Siji Lagunju who made the di...
Festus Allen, coach of the Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan, says the club is ready for its week 6 match against the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) champions, Dolphins FC of Port Harcourt. The match will hold on Wednesday at the MKO Abiola Stad...
Former Super Eagles captain, Austin 'Jay-Jay' Okocha on Monday joined Durgapur for $550,000 (about N89m) in the inaugural Indian football league. Okocha's former tam mate and immediate past Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia will coach ...
The Africa Nations Cup kicked off last weekend in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon with a lot of promise and hope. Big guns like defending champions Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa and Algeria did not qualify for the continental showpiece prompting a...
No wonder they call it El Clasico. When Barcelona and Real Madrid play, anything can happen!. On Wednesday, everything almost did. Barca and Real drew 2-2 in the second leg of Spain’s Copa Del Rey quarterfinals, a result that sends Barca to the s...
After being knocked out of the FA Cup by Liverpool, Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that Manchester United can feel hard done by after “dominating the game” throughout the intense cup tie at Anfield. The Red Devils succumbed to defeat after a...
What was supposed to be a friendly match and show of brotherhood between two streets in Ile-Oluji, Ondo state turned out to be the greatest undoing of the youths of the community, as it claimed the life of a promising young boy and left others injured....
Coaches at the ongoing All Stars Female Football Championship on Wednesday in Lagos advised parents to encourage their wards to take to sports to enhance their well being. The coaches said the combination of education with sports was an added advantage...
Arsene Wenger was blasted by his own fans — and even skipper Robin van Persie — as chants of ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’ echoed around the Emirates. Supporters lost patience with Arsenal’s boss after his...
Monday Odigie, the Assistant Coach of Rangers International FC of Enugu, has assured the club's fans that it will soon return to its winning ways in spite of current challenges. Odigie told newsmen on Sunday after his team defeated Kaduna United FC...