WEST Brom manager, Steve Clarke, on Saturday incurred home fans’ wrath when he ventured to introduce Nigerian international, Osaze Odemwingie for match hero, Romero Lukaku in a 2-1 win over Sunderland at The Hawthorns in a Barclay’s Premier League clash. Odemwingie came on in the 87th minute but was booed by home fans who are […]
FEBRUARY 22, 2013 BY ’TUNJI AJIBADE(TUNJIOA@YAHOO.COM) There is a need for two standing ovations. One is for Nigeria’s Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi. The other is for the Super Eagles. Mallam Abdullahi’s should precede that of the Eagles. It’s because earlier on the minister had championed something, before the Super Eagles championed something else, winning […]
Nigeria’s Under-20 team the Flying Eagles gave an indication they are set to defend their 2011 African Youth Championship title next month in Algeria, when they thrashed their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo Wednesday. The match played at the Degla Stadium outside Cairo was staged to prepare both teams for AYC, starting off on March 16. […]
CAPTAIN of the 1980 Nations Cup-winning Green Eagles squad, Christian Chukwu (MON), has described the late Okey Isima (MON), as a true football stakeholder. Chukwu, in a telephone chat with Tribunesport in Lagos, said that the exit of the former teammate was a great loss to Nigerian football. “In fact, I have not recovered from […]
THE mind-boggling cash gifts splashed out on the national football team players and officials that won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa early in February by the Federal Government is a wrong way of incentivising those who have done the nation proud. It is excessive and perverted as there are standards of […]
*We’re going for one – Inyama *No, we have no such plans – Green THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced that it has no plans to contract a foreign technical director for the national teams. This is coming at the heels of an earlier disclosure by a Board member, Emeka Inyama that “there was […]
Super Eagles backroom staff are disappointed coach Stephen Keshi has not fought for them after they missed out on the government’s largesse. Keshi, his assistant coaches and players were rewarded by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan with national honours and plots of land in Abuja for winning the 2013 AFCON. But the backroom staff like equipment […]
Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF) President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has turned the Super Eagles’ victory at the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa, into a launching pad to campaign for an executive position in the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Dependable source hinted Daily Sunsports yesterday that Maigari capitalized on the heavy presence of […]
Nigeria defender Elderson Echiejile has said the recent AFCON triumph will boost team confidence in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. The Super Eagles were crowned African champions for a third time at the weekend in Johannesburg, South Africa. They are currently top of a qualifying group for the World Cup that has Malawi, Namibia and […]
By JOHN EGBOKHAN Triumphant Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has said that he hopes that Nigeria’s success at the 2013 AFCON in South Africa would usher in a new dawn of glory for soccer in the country. Keshi, against all odds, weekend, led a new crop of Eagles, comprising six players playing their professio0nal soccer […]
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