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The travel travails of the Super Eagles are yet to be over just a day before the international friendly in Lima against Peru. On Sunday, drug incident at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos, forced the cancellation of the Iberia Airliner that the Sup...
Nigerians who still lament the non qualification of the country’s male and female football teams for the forthcoming summer London Olympic Games need not to cry any more. This is because the supervising minister of sports and Chairman National Sp...
Ajax head coach Frank de Boer has said he is “honoured” to be approached by Liverpool over the managerial vacancy at Anfield, but insists he will be staying at the Dutch club. De Boer, who has guided the Amsterdam giants to back-to-back Ere...
Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has revealed that the club’s owner Roman Abramovich is targeting another three Champions League wins following Saturday’s triumph. The Blues won Europe’s premier cup competition for the first time with vict...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has congratulated Nigeria’s international midfielder, John Mikel Obi, over the UEFA Champions League victory. Obi’s club, the English Premiership team, Chelsea defeated the Germany’s Bayern Munich...
Thirty two teams started the battle for glory from September last year. Now, however, the journey has been reduced to the final two-Bayern Munich and Chelsea. Today, both clubs will battle it out for Europe’s top club football honour. Football fa...
One of the main features of the just concluded Zone D Copa Coca Cola (North Central zonal championship) held at the Area 3 mini-stadium was the array of talents on display. It was a two-day event. Nigeria is known as one of the countries that has conti...
In the wake of their elimination from the CAF Confederation Tournament, Heartland FC of Owerri have said that they will now have ample time to focus on the local league. The club is also unhappy with its performance in the league and had expressed diss...
Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, will tomorrow in Abuja unveil his hit squad for the three big games in the month of June. Already, 24 home boys have been sweating it out in Abuja for the past two weeeks, ahead of the international friend...
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi will replace Inter Milan ace Joel Obi, who has suffered a thigh injury and will be out for a month. Keshi lamented the absence of Obi for next month’s World Cup and Nations Cup qualifiers. “It’s sad that he...
World football-governing body, FIFA has named Sudanese referee Khalid Abdel Rahman as the centre man for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Brave Warriors of Namibia, which is scheduled for the UJ Esuen...
Parents whose wards distinguished themselves in the just concluded Copa Coca Cola north zonal championship has applauded the sponsorship of the championship by Nigerian Bottling Company, the maker of coca cola brand. They described the annual grassroot...
African Footballer of the Year Perpetua Nkwocha will lead three foreign pros for an African Women’s Championship qualifier versus Zimbabwe. MTNFootball.com can report that Perpetua Nkwocha, Onome Ebi and Rita Chikwelu are the only three foreign-b...
Robin van Persie will hold crunch contract talks with Arsenal tomorrow, Goal.com revealed. A meeting has been scheduled in London at a neutral location for Van Persie’s camp to begin face-to-face negotiations with senior club officials, including...
The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) intends to organise an under-15 football championship in honour of late Super Eagles’ striker Rashidi Yekini. Alhaji Aminu Maigari, the NFA Chairman, disclosed this on Saturday in Ira, Oyun Local Gover...