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South Africa U20s will arrive Nigeria tonight and fly out to Ilorin tomorrow for the 2013 AYC return leg qualifier against Nigeria on Sunday. The first leg qualifier ended in a 1-1 draw in Nelspruit, South Africa, about a fortnight ago. The Amaji...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria has dropped five places to 63rd in the world in the latest FIFA Rankings released by the world football governing body. This is Nigeria’s worst ranking in a decade to show the decline of the team in world football. Thi...
The Nigeria Football Federation declared yesterday that the Senior National Team, Super Eagles will pull no punches when hostilities begin against the Lone Star of Liberia in a 2013 African Cup of Nations decider in Calabar next week. Saturday’s ...
Ex-Nigeria international, Henry Nwosu has said the recall of Chelsea midfield enforcer, John Mikel Obi to the Super Eagles is a “right decision.” Nwosu, a former Nigerian Under17s head coach, said Keshi’s recall of Mikel to the Super ...
President of Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, Engineer Sani M. Ndanusa has joined the long list of eminent figures mourning the death of Dr Abdullateef Oladimeji Adegbite. Dr Adegbite died in his house in Lagos at the age of 79, last week. As Nigerians ...
The arrival of Sharks Stanley Okoronkwo and Kalu Orji of Heartland Fc of Owerri, has changed the complexion of the battle for shirts among the 22 home based players in camp for the duel against the Lone Star of Liberia come October 13 in Calabar. The d...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will face Venezuela in an international friendly in November. The clash against La Vinotinto is expected to form part of the Eagles’ preparations for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. Spokesma...
Screening of prospective participants for West Africa’s biggest soccer reality television show, the Glo Soccer Academy, will begin October 8, 2012 in Kumasi. Glo said all applicants in Kumasi and environs would be screened at the Paa Joe Stadium,...
It was good and the not too good news on Monday morning when the national team; Super Eagles resumed training for the October 13 duel against the Lone Star of Liberia in Calabar. As expected all the players invited save for the Sunshine Stars duo of Iz...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, has again insisted that there will be no partiality between home-based stars and those based abroad in the selection of the final team that will face Liberia, October 13 in Calabar. “I know that 1...
As the crunch game between the flying Eagles and South Africa’s Amajita, draws nearer, Kenneth Omeruo of Dutch Eredivisie club, ADO Den Haag is expected to lead a slew of foreign-based professionals to camp for the 2013 Africa Youth Championship ...
It has been confirmed that Argentina will be competing in the 2nd Edition of Copa Lagos which takes place on the 14th – 16th of December 2012. The Argentines have huge Beach Soccer pedigree. Along with Brazil, Argentina is one of only two South A...
Lionel Messi has insisted that he cares about winning trophies with Barcelona more than about individual glory. The Argentine attacker is widely seen as one of the best players in the history of the game, but the 25-year-old is more concerned about how...
Halimatu Ayinde scored her second brace of Azerbaijan 2012 as Nigeria U-17 women's team finished top of Group A following a 3-0 victory over Colombia, a result that sends the South Americans home from the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Chelsea captain John Terry has been banned for four games and fined £220,000 after being found guilty of racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand by the FA. The Blues star announced his retirement from international football with Engl...