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Real Madrid playmaker Mesut Ozil feels he has nothing to prove in the wake of recent criticism in the Spanish papers. The Germany international impressed against Barcelona on Sunday after a number of relatively disappointing outings earlier this season...
11-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal is expecting to retire from the professional tennis career at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 says a report. The 26-year-old Rafael Nadal, who was struggling with knee injury from past years, said he is expecting to ...
Palpable excitement enveloped the Super Eagles Metropolitan Hotel camp Tuesday afternoon ahead of the crucial Nations Cup qualifier against Liberia on Saturday as foreign based players invited arrived in droves ahead of the tie. And when the tea...
Not known to be flippant when it comes to making promises, Super Eagles boss, Stephen Keshi, momentarily threw that to the winds when he assured Nigerians and especially Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River and the people of the state that the na...
The Lagos State Judo team have emerged as the overall winner in the just-concluded maiden edition of the Babatunde RajI Fashola (BRF) Judo competition. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the five -day competition, which took place at the Spo...
The first penalty shootout of Azerbaijann 2012 saw Marion Romanelli strike the winning spot-kick for France as they beat Nigeria to reach the semifinals after a 0-0 draw as the African side fell at the quarter-final stage for the second tourname...
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...