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Friday, February 11th, 2011

SUPER Eagles and West Bromwich Albion top striker, Osaze Odemwingie, says landing a deal in the English Premiership last summer is the biggest thing in his career after a disappointing outing at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Odemwingie is West Brom’s highest scorer on nine goals and the striker explained that the option […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
PRESIDENT, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has said the body is at home with the plans of Samson Siasia on the newbreed Super Eagles. ‘’The NFF is happy with the coach as he begins the process of building a new team. From what we saw against Sierra Leone, there is hope for Nigerian […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
NIGERIA’S participation in an invitational Obama Cup in the United States of America is hanging in the balance following a withdrawal of most of the teams from the competition. The country’s ‘B’ team is scheduled to depart for the US this weekend for the tournament, but top officials have informed MTNFootball.com the trip is now […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
THE Super Eagles Coach Samson Siasia has described the Sierra Leone national team coach as a comedian. The Sierra Leone Coach Joseph Cole had after the international friendly between the two countries at the Teslim Balogun Stadium said his side was robbed of victory. Super Eagles defeated Sierra Leone by 2-1. Cole also said that […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Samson Siasia began his job as Super Eagles coach on a bright note on Wednesday when he led the senior national team to a 2-1 win over Leone Stars of Sierra Leone in a friendly match played at a packed Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos. Marseille left-back Taye Taiwo converted an early penalty after Denmark-based striker […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, on Tuesday said there would be no ‘big man’ in the new squad. Siasia held a meeting with the players and urged them to respect one another especially captain Joseph Yobo, The former international said, “Nigerians want to see a new team, with a positive attitude and we have […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2011

Certainly, it is going to be a full house as Super Eagles’ skipper, Joseph Yobo, West Ham’s striker, Obinna Nsofor and a Chelsea’s player, John Mikel Obi, are expected to arrive Monday to boost the number of players already in camp for the friendly international against Sierra Leone in Lagos on Wednesday. Yobo was already […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2011

Suspended FIFA official, Amos Adamu, says he’s asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn his ban for allegedly seeking bribes during the World Cup bidding contests. The Nigerian says he’s taking legal advice to challenge his three-year expulsion from football which was upheld by FIFA’s appeals committee last Friday. Adamu’s three-year ban for […]
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Amos Adamu’s appeal against the FIFA Ethics Committee decision to sanction him has been thrown out by the FIFA Appeals Committee. The Committee, under the chairmanship of judge Larry Mussenden from Bermuda, confirmed the decisions taken by the Ethics Committee on 17 November 2010. Adamu, along with fellow executive committee member Reynald Temarii and five […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Nigeria will now play Sierra Leone on February 9 after failing in an earlier arrangement to play Guatemala. Nigeria coach Samson Siasia confirmed that an arrangement had been reached to play the fellow West Africans. “I am disappointed that the Guatemala game has been cancelled, this is not good for us. “But the NFF have […]